The city of Truesdale is officially underway in its efforts to establish planning and zoning regulations, a type of government oversight that guides growth and development in a community.
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The city of Truesdale is officially underway in its efforts to establish planning and zoning regulations, a type of government oversight that guides growth and development in a community.
Planning and zoning rules can have a big impact on how a town develops as new businesses, new residents, and new builders bring their own individual ideas and desires to the community. A community that doesn’t have planning, meanwhile, has little control over what comes in and how developers choose to build.
That’s the reason the Truesdale Board of Aldermen approved the creation of planning and zoning laws last October, and recently took the next steps of recruiting a community planning and zoning board, as well enlisting Boonslick Regional Planning Commission to help in the process.
The planning board is a group of volunteer Truesdale residents whose first task will be establishing a comprehensive framework for the city’s P&Z laws. That will involve long discussions about future development of untouched land, as well as what future re-developments might be allowed in established parts of the city.
Eventually, the board will be tasked with assessing business and development proposals to verify whether they fit within the city’s framework.
Community members who volunteered and were selected for the planning and zoning board include Don Smith, Ben York, Kari Hartley, Mike Miller, Amanda Lefholz, Missy Bachamp, Kelly Riehl and Cindy Williams.
City officials estimate that the board members will probably spend the next year in periodic meetings developing Truesdale’s comprehensive planning and zoning framework and specific regulations within it. Along the way, they’ll be assisted by Boonslick Regional Planning Commission, a nonprofit community development agency in Warrenton.
Truesdale approved a $20,000 contract with Boonslick in December to assist in developing the city’s comprehensive plan. That will include assistance with documentation, organization, informational services, community surveying, and compliance with Missouri statutes.
After a number of guided discussions, planning sessions, surveys and community outreach, Boonslick will prepare the comprehensive planning document that will guide Truesdale development and specify short-term, intermediate, and long-term goals for the city. That will include specialized demographic data analysis and mapping services that the city doesn’t otherwise have access to.
