Dozens of homes planned for east Columbia
A Columbia developer wants to build more than three dozen homes near the University of Missouri’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
The city’s planning department will hold a public hearing Tuesday on SBSR II Properties’ request to build 43 homes on nearly 14 acres of property off East St. Charles Road, called “The Coliseum.” The land sits southeast of Highway 63 and Interstate 70.
Planning documents show the land is already zoned for single-family residential use. No roads run through it, but dead-end roads like Raspberry Ridge Drive and Tara Lane are close.
Many residents in the area ABC 17 News spoke with were unaware of the plan Friday night.
Secretary of State records show SBSR II Properties was registered in July 2016 by Shan Rich and Scott Braudis of Columbia. Rich did not respond to a request for comment Friday night.
The stretch of St. Charles Road between Keene Street and Interstate 70 is a two-lane stretch without shoulders or sidewalks. Columbia’s Capital Improvement Project list shows the addition of a turn lane on Keene Street scheduled in 3 to 5 years, but no improvements to St. Charles Road itself.
The project joins a handful of others that would increase the amount of single-family homes in the city. Pate-Jones hopes the city council will approve a revised plan to build 25 homes off College Park Drive in west Columbia. Habitat for Humanity is sizing up 50 acres off Brown Station Road to develop homes, as well.
The Coliseum plan will first go to the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission for a vote on the “plat,” or layout of the home lots.
