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St. Charles County council debates shifting $650,000 from Lake Saint Louis Boulevard to neighborhood sound wall
Summary
Council members and staff debated a proposal to reallocate $650,000 from a Lake Saint Louis Boulevard extension line item to fund a sound wall for Norwood Court; residents spoke at length in public comment urging removal of the extension from county funding and support for noise mitigation.
Council members spent the budget work session on Nov. 24 debating whether to delay the county’s portion of the Lake Saint Louis Boulevard extension and reallocate $650,000 toward a proposed sound wall in a constituent’s neighborhood.
Councilman Tim Baker asked the council to move ‘‘$650,000 allocated to the Lake St. Louis Boulevard extension project’’ to pay for a sound wall on Norwood Court, noting $100,000 for engineering and $550,000 for construction in his estimate. Administration staff reminded the council that the document before them was the recommended 2026 budget and that no formal amendments or…
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