Coming to Florissant —

A New BBQ Place

         By Carol Arnett

New restaurants are always big news in Florisssant, as evident last week with the opening and at the new Chick-fil-A on N. Lindbergh The Florissant City Council held a public hearing and discussions about two new businesses including a new barbecue place coming to the city.

In restaurant new, the council approved a request to transfer a special use permit from Show Me BBQ to Mann Meats for the operation of a carry-out restaurant at 300 St. Ferdinand. This is the A-frame building next to Helfer’s Pastries.

Councilman Keith Schildroth asked Robert Manneke of Mann Meats to tell the council about the business.

Manneke and his wife Holly work together. They currently have a food truck. He said he was looking forward to having the building. He said he had brought the food truck to Florissant on several occasions.

“He’s doing a lot of renovations inside,” Schildroth said. “It looks really nice in there. I think he’s going to do really well there.” He added that he had heard many positive things about the food truck. “I think it will be a nice addition to our city.”

The council passed a bill that would approve the business.

The council approved a request to transfer a special use permit from Bill’s Auto Repair to Palmer Premier Auto for the operation of an auto repair business at 575 N. New Florissant Rd. This is the corner of St. Francois and New Florissant.

Councilman Gerard Henke had Marius Palmer, the owner, speak to the council. Henke said that he had discussed the business with Palmer on the phone and they had talked about restricting used tired sales to 10 percent of the business. He said he wanted the rest of the council to know they had talked and Palmer had agreed to the stipulations.

Henke said he was also concerned about cars being out in the lot. He said he may want to add a stipulation to the bill to prevent customer cars from sitting on the lot for more than a certain number of days.

The council held a first reading on the bill that would approve the special use permit transfer. Henke said he would work with City Attorney John Hessel to make changes to the bill to restrict tire sales and keep cars off the lot for extended times.

The council held a public hearing about a request to remove the requirement to construct a parking lot for the property located at 2 Menke Place. The property is behind Ruiz restaurant. Asher Rohra and Alok Rohra are the owners. They said that they originally intended to put a parking lot on the property for used car sales, but their plans have changed.

Councilman Gerard Henke said that he wanted to clarify that the request was not to remove an existing parking lot. It is to remove the requirement to build a new lot.

The council held a first reading on a bill that would allow the change.

In other matters, the council: Postponed a second reading on a bill that would adjust fees for the golf course and held a first reading on a bill that would amend certain job grade levels.

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