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		<title>Glimpsing the council&#8217;s true colors</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300709/2010/05/19/glimpsing-the-councils-true-colors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 01:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more interesting council discussions I&#8217;ve heard in the last couple of years happened Monday night.
Before the council was a proposal to rezone about 20 acres of land near the city&#8217;s power plant on Business Loop 70. The area is surrounded by industrial zoning, yet it is zoned for residential use and contains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;Z appointment breaks precedent</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300702/2010/05/19/pz-appointment-breaks-precedent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 20:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a departure from its usual practice, the City Council Monday night opted not to reappoint one of the Planning and Zoning Commission’s most senior members.
Nearly a dozen people applied for the two open spots on P&#38;Z, one of the city’s most important commissions. Both commissioners whose terms had expired reapplied for their positions. Raman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tabling the Planning and Zoning Commission</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300694/2010/04/09/tabling-the-planning-and-zoning-commission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the ouster from the council of Jerry Wade and Karl Skala, both former Planning and Zoning Commissioners, the zoning-review body could wane in influence.
Over the last three years while those two sat on the council, the body&#8217;s recommendations seemed to carry more weight than in the past. Wade spearheaded a change to the city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;Z beefs up bylaws</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300692/2010/04/09/pz-beefs-up-bylaws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night, the Planning and Zoning Commission passed a change to its operating procedures that establishes a standard time to table zoning requests where information is submitted late. I wrote about it at this post.
Basically, the change says that the commission will usually table a request for at least two meetings when information is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local spending and the election</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300687/2010/04/01/local-spending-and-the-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I anticipated, my last post about spending locally (a little snarky, I admit) promptly got a response from one of the campaigns.
Edge Wade, Mayoral candidate Jerry Wade&#8217;s wife, sent CBT an e-mail pointing out that her husband did make an attempt to buy everything locally for his campaign.
Mrs. Wade noted that she and Councilman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;Z to penalize late zoning requests</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300659/2010/03/18/pz-zoning-to-penalize-late-zoning-requests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time is money, so while the Planning and Zoning commission can&#8217;t fine zoning applicants who submit late materials, a change in their bylaws would do pretty much the same thing.
A draft of an amendment to the commission&#8217;s rules would make it custom practice for the commission to table any zoning request for two meetings if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City election fundraising update</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300639/2010/03/05/city-election-fundraising-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Correction: In a previous version of this post, I incorrectly reported the amount of in-kind contributions to Fourth Ward candidate Sarah Read. The correct amount is below.
OK, last week I posted a pretty incomplete campaign finance report for mayoral candidates Jerry Wade and Bob McDavid. Since then, I&#8217;ve managed to make the time to rummage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;Z recommends against new commercial zoning on Grindstone</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300631/2010/03/05/pz-recommends-against-new-commercial-zoning-on-grindstoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Planning and Zoning Commission had different ideas than the Planning Department Thursday night, diverging from staff&#8217;s recommendation and voting against a proposed rezoning on Grindstone Parkway across from the Walmart center.
The request by Red Oak Investment Company, owned in part by Hugh Stephenson and his son Ted Stephenson as well as Robert Smith, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wade leads in campaign contributions, McDavid makes big strides</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300613/2010/02/26/wade-leads-in-campaign-contributions-mcdavid-makes-big-strides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the release of Mayoral candidate Bob McDavid&#8217;s first campaign finance report today, we now have an indicator of how the race between him and Fourth Ward Councilman Jerry Wade is shaping up.
Only those two candidates have reported any contributions or expenditures with the Missouri Ethics Commission. I&#8217;ll be updating this post after I make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New twist in Kroenke group, country club dispute</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300604/2010/02/19/300604/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300604/2010/02/19/300604/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new twist in the effort to extend Conley Road from the Walmart shopping center through the Columbia Country Club to Business Loop 70. The Transportation Development District set up to fund the road extension project looks like it&#8217;s trying to get out of that obligation.
The Walmart property owners, known as TKG Conley Road [...]]]></description>
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