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Florissant Will Limit Off-Site Tent Sales to One Per Year
By Carol Arnett
Restaurant and stores in Florissant will have less competition from tent sales, after the city council passed a bill that regulates tent sales and limits them to one per year.
Councilwoman Karen McKay introduced the bill. The council recently passed a bill that regulates tent sales. Tent sales are sales that occur off of a business’s property.
“We regulate businesses that do this already,” McKay said. “This will regulate the non-profits.” McKay said she introduced the bill at the request of some restaurants in the city. “Some non-profits were having these weekly,” she said, adding that restaurants face stricter regulations and a higher cost of doing business than tent sales.
McKay said that the ordinance would not prevent businesses from having tent sales on their own property. “This strictly deals with off-site sales,” McKay said.
This bill removes the exemptions for non-profits for an existing ordinances.
In other matters, the school that was proposed for the former Our Lady of Fatima convent will not be going into the site. Councilwoman Karen McKay told the other members of the Florissant City Council that she had not heard from the petitioners who wanted to open Boonce Academy at the site.
McKay, and other council members, had told the petitioner at other meetings that they had concerns with the school. Specifically, McKay said that she thought it was not a good fit for the neighborhood based on the number of students and teachers proposed.
Mayor Robert Lowery said that he had spoken with the owners of the building, not anyone associated with the school. The owners, he said, told him that the school was no longer pursuing plans for the site. “The owner will work to put something else there,” Lowery said.
The bill allowing the school died after it did not receive enough votes for a second reading.
In other action, the council approved tow requests to transfer special use permits from Sinclair to Western Oil. Sinclair is moving out of the Midwest and the stations will become Conoco Phillips stations. The council approved liquor licenses for the stations.
