Wednesday, March 20, 2013
City decided to install cameras instead of offering grants that would allow business owners to buy their own cameras.
St. Charles has installed three security cameras on the Greater St. Charles Convention and Visitors Bureau on Main Street and has plans to install two more on North Main Street this spring. The cameras are part of the city's plan to address crime in the historic downtown area. Two cameras are installed on the front of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, one facing north and one facing south. A third camera is mounted on the back of the building and can pick up activity in the park. The cameras cost $5,000 and have been in place since the end of January. The cameras aren't being monitored but if there's an issue on Main Street, St. Charles Police can go back and view video. The cameras can caputure about a block in each direction. These …
Monday, February 25, 2013
St. Charles recently created a special loading zone for taxicabs on Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays.
Late-night partiers in historic St. Charles may soon have an easier time catching a cab home. The city council recently approved the creation of a taxi loading zone on the north side of Monroe Street between Main Street and Riverfront Drive. The zone will allow taxi drivers to line up between 10 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. which will help get the mass numbers of people out of the area after the bars close. Many of the crimes reported in North Main Street—from public urination to vandalism—happen in those early morning hours. In addition, the city also created a 15-minute loading and unloading zone for limos and buses on the north side of Jefferson Street between Riverside Drive and Main Street. The loading zone will be in effect Thursday to …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
State law now allows bars to be open on Sundays even if they don't sell food. St. Charles is considering changing its liquor laws to mimic state law.
Bars in St. Charles that don’t serve any food aren’t allowed to be open on Sundays under local and — until recently — under state law. However, the Missouri Legislature in the spring amended the liquor control law to allow bars to apply for a $200 permit to sell alcohol on Sunday. In the past, only restaurant-bars that met minimum food sale requirements could be open on Sundays. St. Charles City Council is considering amending local laws to mimic the state law, except for in the historic downtown district. City staff members said they have received questions from several bar owners, wondering whether the city would change local laws. In September, Maryland Heights approved an amendment to its liquor laws to allow bars to be open on …
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
St. Charles City Council approved a new law designed to give St. Charles Police Officers more ability to handle problems on Main Street.
Failing to listen when a police officer asks you to leave an area can get you arrested in St. Charles under a new law recently approved by the city council. St. Charles City Council on July 24 passed a city ordinance that makes interfering with law enforcement officers a misdemeanor violation. The new law (section 215:635) says: It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly hinder, obstruct, willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of, or otherwise interfere with any law enforcement officer in the discharge of the officer's official duties, or to attempt to rescue from such officer any person in the officer's custody, or to aid in the escape of, or set at liberty, any person while in the officer's custody…
Kurt Watson
4:55 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
this lot is so old its when things were different... people work different shifts they work Sundays it's not the same as it use to be many many years ago... it should be up to the individual bar owners. why do you want to cut their throats ... what ever happened to separation of church and state why should Sunday any different from any other day more ›