Plat approved for bank development
Working through an unusually heavy agenda in its final meeting before next week’s municipal election, the Maryville City Council approved a number of development, infrastructure and capital spending measures, including the preliminary plat for the new Fountain Park subdivision on the west side of Business 71 at the corner of Carefree Drive.
As announced earlier, the 13-acre subdivision, which consists of four commercially zoned parcels, will contain the site of a Wells Bank branch, scheduled for construction later this year.
The 3,400 square foot building is to have three drive-through lanes, one with ATM access. Services will include a full line of personal and business deposit and loan accounts, including fixed-rate mortgages for residential and agricultural real estate.
According to a report to the council prepared by Assistant City Manager Ryan Heiland, the bank is to serve as the anchor business for additional commercial development in the subdivision, which will include a new street, Fountain Parkway, running west from Business 71.
Earlier this year, the council appropriated $80,000 for additional infrastructure improvements at the site, including water and sewer lines.
The preliminary plat application was submitted by Robert J. Barmann Jr. and Billy E. Ingles, managers of Fountain Park Partners LLC.
In other business during its regular Monday session, the council approved an amendment to an existing agreement for a similar development on the city’s east side.
Undertaken by Maryville East Side Development LLC, the project currently embraces a new carwash, a Casey’s General Store, a Pizza Ranch restaurant and a proposed Lettuce Dream greenhouse complex. Lettuce Dream is a non-profit organization seeking to provide vocational training in hydroponic agriculture to people with developmental and physical disabilities.
Initially, the council appropriated $57,000 to the Maryville East Side project for infrastructure, including a new sanitary sewer lift station. However, cost of the lift station exceeded projections by $9,500, and the need to relocate a couple of water lines added additional expense as well.
As a result, the council this week approved adding $19,832 to its infrastructure contribution, bringing the total to $76,832.
Other action taken by the council this week included:
• Approval of a lot split that will divide a 6.54-acre tract of the Mary Mart shopping center property into two separate commercial parcels.
Tract one comprises just under six acres, and tract two consists of a half-acre lot containing the former U.S. Cellular building.
According to city documents, the purpose of the split is to accommodate the proposed sale of the six-acre lot containing the shopping center.
• Approval of a contract to purchase a closed-circuit television trailer unit that will be used to identify leaks and other damage within the city’s sanitary sewer system. The $162,259 contract for the unit, which includes a spare camera, spare parts kit and a three-year warranty, was awarded to Red Municipal & Industrial Equipment Co. of Kansas City.
Public Works Director C.E. Goodall said the camera rig is essential to the city’s effort to repair sewer defects as Maryville’s multi-million-dollar mechanical wastewater treatment plant nears completion.
Eliminating as much storm water inflow from the sanitary sewer as possible is important because the new plant requires electricity to treat each gallon of effluent, as opposed to the largely passive lagoon-based system currently in operation.
Maryville has budgeted $700,000 in its current budget to address so-called inflow and infiltration issues.
• A discussion regarding issues associated with the planned repaving of West Ninth Street between North Main and Northwest Missouri State University.
Only 22 feet wide, the badly dilapidated street has parking along its north shoulder, making it difficult for motorists to pass each other while traveling in opposite directions.
City staff is asking the council to consider either eliminating the north-side parking lane or limiting West Ninth to one-way traffic.
A decision about the street was delayed until input can be sought from affected residents.
