Creve Coeur commission backs draft zoning change to allow larger site coverage for membership organizations

The Creve Coeur Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend a zoning text amendment that would let certain membership organizations in residential districts increase allowable nonresidential site coverage from the current default of 25% to as much as 50% and would explicitly exempt pool decks, patios and outdoor recreation surfaces from coverage calculations.

Jason Jagie, director of community development for the city, told commissioners the proposal is a text amendment — brought by applicants including the Saint Louis Elks Lodge — that would revise the ordinance language used to calculate site coverage and to list various membership organizations as eligible for a higher coverage allowance when approved as conditional uses. "The zoning code defaults non–single-family residential uses allowed by conditional use to the residential standard, which is 25%," Jagie said, noting prior precedents where schools and religious institutions were allowed up to 50% in similar…