Post Family Development Struggles With P&Z Approval
Date Posted: March 26, 2024
Posted In: News, Projects,
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: A developer has encountered challenges in obtaining approval for a proposed large new subdivision on 100+ acres that, if built and annexed, would become part of O’Fallon at its western boundary.
History and future possibilities make the proposed Post Family subdivision both sensitive and significant.
After being tabled at two O’Fallon Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) meetings, then challenged with numerous conditions from city staff, the Post Family proposal was recently tabled a third time, to be considered again on April 4.
The Post Family Limited Partnership owns 103.73 acres at 1065 East Hwy. N in unincorporated St. Charles County, just west of the intersection of Hopewell Road and Hwy. N, directly across Hwy. N from the under-construction, 896-unit Harvest at Hopewell subdivision in western O’Fallon. The Post property currently contains a single-family residence plus several outbuildings and is used as farmland.
Developer DCM Land, LLC is a potential purchaser of the Post property desiring to build the new subdivision.
In December 2023, on behalf of DCM, the Sterling Company applied to O’Fallon P&Z for approval to rezone the property from Unincorporated to R-1/Planned Unit Development (PUD) and for approval of an area plan for a “Villages at Post Farms” subdivision. Sterling is an engineering and surveying firm.