COUNCIL TO CONSIDER MOBILE HOME PARK

A Cape Girardeau development company thinks it has an acceptable plan to create a buffer between the commercial developments along Siemers Drive and the residential area along Bloomfield Road.

The plan is to create a mobile home park district with a neighborhood of mobile homes. But RAD Investments, a company owned by Robert Drury, needs permission from the Cape Girardeau City Council to create the park.

The council will consider both an annexation request for the 24-acre tract and a request to rezone the land at tonight's 7:30 meeting. The council will meet at City Hall, 401 Independence.

The land being considered for annexation is situated west of the Cape West Business Park and north of Bloomfield Road. If the council approves the annexation and the rezoning, the 24-acre tract would be the first in the city to be zoned as MH-1.

Under the plans for the park, the streets would all be designed to city standards, there would be sidewalks, trees, carports for the homes and level, front door entries to each home. There would be about 100 lots for lease.

"It would be a neighborhood as time progresses," said Roger Reisenbichler of RAD Investments.

Neighboring property owners objected to the plans at a December meeting of the city's Planning and Zoning Commission.

Neighbors were concerned about what effect a mobile home park would have on their property values and whether it might cause overcrowding within the Jefferson School District.

Most of their questions could not be answered by the commission because the answers would all be based on assumptions, said R.J. McKinney, chairman.

RAD Investments operates a similar mobile home park in the Fruitland area and hasn't had many problems within the park, developers said.

There is an increasing need for affordable housing in Cape Girdeau and mobile homes offer an alternative, they said.

The planning commission had originally expressed some opposition to the idea of a mobile home park development when it was first suggested during last summer, but the development was approved by a 7-1 vote, with one abstention.

The council is also expected to approve an agreement with H&B Farms to lease 291.5 acres of land near the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.

Six bids were received, and H&B Farms submitted the highest bid at $117 an acre. A previous lease agreement for the land had been set at $60 an acre for 280 acres.

If approved, H&B Farms will lease the property for five years, creating a revenue of $170,527 for the city.

CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL

Monday, Jan. 3 at 7:30 p.m.

Council chambers, 401 Independence

Study session at 5 p.m.

Public hearings

* A public hearing regarding a petition for voluntary annexation from RAD Investments for a 24-acre tract at the western end of Richmond Drive, west of Kell Farm Drive.

* A public hearing regarding the request of RAD Investments to rezone a 24-acre tract west of Cape West Business Park and north of Bloomfield Road from R-1, single-family residential district, to MH-1, mobile home park district.

* A public hearing to consider vacating the city's interest in a 15-foot-wide sewer, utility and drainage easement on the north side of the existing USPS Area Mail Processing Center, between lots 1 and 2, Cape West Eighth Subdivision.

Consent ordinances (Second and third readings)

* Ordinance accepting a general warranty deed, corrected general deed and temporary construction easement from Ruth Ann and Earl H. Norman for the Mount Auburn Road extension between Bloomfield Road and Missouri Highway 74.

* Ordinance approving record plat of Double S Subdivision.

* Ordinance approving record plat of La Mesa Second Subdivision.

* Ordinance accepting a waterline easement from Robert A. And Anna R. Drury, for stormwater and water improvements for Sewer District 16-F, Keller Subdivision.

* Ordinance accepting permanent easements from Glyn Ferrell, Steve Dirnberger, Paul Dirnberger, Charles L. and Doris E. McBride for sewer work to serve Cape Tractor Trailer Supply Co. and Mobile Home World.

* Ordinance accepting a sewer easement from Vernon E. Rhodes Family Partners LP for maintaining sewers in the Vernon Rhodes Subdivision.

* Ordinance approving the record plat of Keller Subdivision.

* Ordinance accepting sewer easements from Jewel Mae Habeck and First Assembly of God Church for a sanitary sewer extension along Hopper Road from Oak Ridge Court to Dearmore Court.

* Ordinance declaring it necessary to improve Kage Road from Mount Auburn Road to Hopper Road.

* Ordinance declaring it necessary to improve New Madrid Street from Perry Avenue to Henderson Avenue.

* Ordinance declaring it necessary to improve Mount Auburn Road from Missouri Highway 74 to Bloomfield Road.

* Ordinance declaring it necessary to improve Mount Auburn Road from Missouri Highway 74 to Silver Springs Road.

* Ordinance amending City Code relating to subdivision regulations.

New ordinances (First reading.)

* Ordinance amending Code of Ordinance by changing zoning of a 24-acre tract west of Cape West Business Park and north of Bloomfield Road from R-1 to MH-1.

* Ordinance annexing land upon the request of Ervin Frank Jr. and Lucille Frank.

* Ordinance annexing land upon the request of Michael P. Drury, Mitchell J. Drury, Michelle M. Drury, LaDonna S. Drury, Christopher R. Drury, Patrick G. Drury, Bryan J. Drury, Jerry M. Drury and Kathlean E. Drury, and Drury Southwest Inc.

* Ordinance annexing land upon request of Missouri State Highway and Transportation Commission, Christian Faith Fellowship, Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau Inc., and James L. Drury, trustee and Wanda L. Drury, trustee.

* Ordinance vacating the city's interest in a sewer, utility and drainage easement in Cape West 8th Subdivision.

* Ordinance amending City Code by placing a stop sign on Armstrong Drive at Siemers Drive.

Resolutions (Reading and passage.)

* Resolution authorizing the city manager to execute an agricultural lease with H & B Farms at the Cape Girdeau Regional Airport.

* Resolution authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement with Fronabarger Concreters Inc. for the Mount Auburn Road extension project.

Other

* Appointment to the Cable Television Advisory Board.

* Motion changing the dates of city council meetings in September and October.

Discussion regarding Perryville Road Project and Jack Mathena.