The city of Warrenton will hold a second hearing for members of the public to voice their opinions on a proposed residential zoning change along Sunnyside Road, after a website crash prevented the …
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The city of Warrenton will hold a second hearing for members of the public to voice their opinions on a proposed residential zoning change along Sunnyside Road, after a website crash prevented the city from sharing a link to its first video conference hearing.
Keeven Family Partnership, which owns property north of Sunnyside Road near the Lakeview Golf Course, is applying to have 29 acres rezoned for residential development. The property is currently zoned for agriculture. The proposal went before Warrenton’s planning and zoning board Feb. 5.
Warrenton has been holding all its city meetings by video conference due to COVID-19. A link to the meetings is normally shared through the city’s website. But the website crashed last week, causing city officials to fear that area residents who wanted to speak might not be able to access the hearing.
City Attorney Chris Graville asked planning and zoning officials to conduct the hearing as planned on Friday, Feb. 5, but also schedule a second date in March to hear additional public testimony.
“The COVID pandemic has forced us to go online and do these hearings via Zoom. These Zoom links are incredibly important to the public as a right to speak,” Graville said. “I think it’s important to make the statement that access to these meetings is very important.”
Engineer Bart Korman, speaking on behalf of the Keeven Family Partnership, said the developers were agreeable to having the public discussions extended until March.
Members of the planning and zoning board voted unanimously to allow continued public discussion during their meeting in March.
The next public hearing will be held Friday, March 5.
A full video recording of the Feb. 5 planning and zoning meeting can be found on the City of Warrenton Missouri YouTube page.
The planning and zoning board is also considering changes to the rules for telecommunications towers and small-scale wireless communications, which were also extended for public discussion in March.
