City council OKs Culver’s in first votes, shows concerns for traffic backups and pedestrian safety

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Before passing the first votes to OK a Culver’s fast food restaurant on the former Steak ‘n Shake location in Maplewood, the city council, on June 9, discussed how best to handle the expected heavy traffic around the location.

The plan calls for removing one of two access points from Manchester Road and adding one on Oakland Avenue to reduce the possibility of cars backing up into Manchester.

Ward 1 council member C Wiley brought up how resident and school-related parking on Oakland Avenue might be affected by backup traffic.

Ward 3 council member Mark Vanden Akker’s concern was accommodations for pedestrians. Commenters on social media recently have pointed out that the plan needs to account for pedestrian safety considering the high school and middle middle school nearby, as well as the neighborhood to the south being within walking distance.

The final vote on the plan is set for the next city council meeting, July 14 at 7 p.m.

See also: P&Z OKs a Culver’s at former Steak ‘n Shake location

3 COMMENTS

  1. Ditto on the quick trip comment. Plus if you want to talk about traffic, drive by raising canes chicken during lunchtime five days a week. Bottom line this has something to do with the MRH. school district
    ECC. is trying to preserve that lot for them. And guess what?There’ll be another d*** tax bond. The d*** personal property tax on a house right now is ridiculous.. The funniest thing is talking about noise coming from a speaker box
    The only people live near that is an apartment building. And not gonna hear that. I say let it go through.

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