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Council removes Lake Saint Louis Boulevard from 2026 plan, debates Millwood Court sound wall and Highway Inn funding
Summary
Council voted to remove funding for Lake Saint Louis Boulevard from the 2026–28 TIP. Councilman Tim Baker proposed reallocating the funds for a Millwood Court sound wall (engineering $100,000; construction ~$550,000), prompting debate about scope, MoDOT easements, decibel readings, and competing safety needs; a later motion to move the funds to Highway Inn failed.
At the Dec. 1 St. Charles County Council meeting, Councilman Tim Baker successfully moved to remove the Lake Saint Louis Boulevard funding from the 2026–28 TIP. Baker then proposed reallocating those funds to pay for engineering and construction of a sound wall along Millwood Court; he proposed $100,000 for an updated sound study and engineering and roughly $550,000 for construction based on staff estimates.
The proposal prompted extended debate over whether the county should fund sound walls on roads built or managed by MoDOT, the potential for opening a wider set of requests across the county, and whether sound walls are a…
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