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Webster Groves adopts draft policies letting neighbors maintain small islands and accept adjacent city-owned slivers
Summary
City staff presented two draft policies that let nearby residents maintain traffic islands with a 70% neighborhood signature threshold and transfer non-buildable city-owned slivers to adjacent property owners; council and neighborhood groups discussed outreach and next steps.
Webster Groves city staff presented two draft policies June 17 that create a formal path for neighbors to maintain small traffic islands and for adjacent property owners to accept city-owned, non-buildable slivers of land.
City staff described an “island policy” that would allow residents within 180 feet of an island to sign an agreement to maintain that island. “If any neighbors within a 180 feet, 70% of them signed on to it, then they can fill out the agreement,” Scott, a city staff member who led the presentation, told council. The agreement would run year to year and automatically renew while the neighborhood continues maintenance, staff said.
The second policy covers “abutting properties” — small, non-buildable parcels the city owns next to private…
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