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Today's Poll!Hayselton development plan advances
Jefferson City attorney Joe Bednar voices his opposition Thursday to a proposed 15-home subdivision on the Missouri River bluffs near Hayselton Drive during a Planning and Zoning meeting at City Hall. Photo by Kris Wilson.
Friday, January 13, 2012
A crowd listens as Dick Otke of Dick Otke Construction speaks about his plans to develop a subdivision off Hayselton Drive. Residents say the area is too dangerous to add a street where Otke wants to.
More than one year after the proposal was originally made, the Planning and Zoning Commission approved a request for a proposed subdivision plan for the Missouri River bluffs just east of Hayselton Drive.
The subdivision request, which seeks to re-zone 4.36 acres from RS-3 single family residential to a Planned Unit Development for a 10.86-acre development, was brought by developer Dick Otke, on behalf of landowners River Bluff Condominiums LLC and Rayma Chinn.
In five different votes, necessary for each aspect of the request including rescinding the prior PUD plan approved last year, the commission voted to approve the proposal, with only two commissioners voting in opposition on three of the five votes.
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Comments
RobHunterJohnson 1 year, 4 months ago
Mr Otke, Why are we back at this again? I am not against your development just the driveway conversion to a city street. Jefferson Citians beware if they can do this on Hayselton they can do it anywhere in Jefferson City. You came into an established neighborhood, West Main St, and razed a large duplex home for your failed condos? Why did they fail? Will your $100,000.00 lots fail too! Your road needs to follow the original plan with West main street as access, in 2005 you could have put a box culvert in the ditch, and been collecting free fill all this time from the Jefferson City area. Contractors are always looking to dump material from excavation sites, and the closest one is cheapest on the contractor. Rob
Gabrielle 1 year, 4 months ago
Rob: would you elaborate on this? I know nothing of these things.
'in 2005 you could have put a box culvert in the ditch, and been collecting free fill all this time from the Jefferson City area. Contractors are always looking to dump material from excavation sites, and the closest one is cheapest on the contractor'
Gabrielle 1 year, 4 months ago
I thought there were other posts here. I had asked some questions of the poster. As best as I remember:
I would appreciate hearing from someone on this. Thanks.
RobHunterJohnson 1 year, 4 months ago
Petunia, Mr Otke-Chinn tore down a duplex home in the 1400 block of West Main in 2004? They now they cannot afford to build a road to there property that way? They have now come over to Hayselton Dr, and want to make Mr Chinns drive way a street. Mr Chinns driveway is located in the hair pin turn on Hayselton. Planning and zoning has voted for this 6 to 2 in favor of Mr Otke. Alot of things wrong here. Starting with an unsafe intersection at Hayselton, the setbacks on two of Mr Chinns neighbors, zoning waivererd their own standards for this project, and increase in traffic flow to the other residents of Hayselton, as well as Circle Sts, Riverwood, Delta, Paddle Wheel, and Ware. Mr Bates added that the new street will compare to Sylvin Hills or Chrystal View at Booneville. Hayselton and East Circle Streets are not BOONEVILLE ROAD. Call your councilman it could be your neighborhood next! Rob
maccve 1 year, 3 months ago
Petunia, while it is pretty much a mute point now since the developer's have now withdrawn their proposal, I will still answer your questions...
The west main street entrance would not work because it would be extremely expensive to construct for the low volume single family houses that were proposed. The West Main street entrance was originally proposed to allow access for two 5 story condominium buildings. Unfortunately, steel prices shot up and there did not seem to be a big enough market and the developers had to discontinue the plans for the West Main Street entrance.
The original plan was for the two 5 story condominiums and the developers knew that the traffic generated from that would be too intense to access from Hayselton, which is why there was a proposed access from West Main. It was then put on hold for about 5 years while the developers looked at other options..it was finally decided that a development comparable to the existing neighborhood would allow for the much more desirable access to Hayselton, unfortunately the residents did not feel the same...
Many people seem to think that the proposed entrance onto West Main was for the same type of development as the entrance onto Hayselton...that is grossly incorrect...the West Main Entrance was for a 40 unit condominium development and the Hayselton Drive Entrance was for a 15 lot subdivision.
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