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columbia’s morning newspaper
Friday, June 6, 2008
Council
retreat
focuses
on vision
Zoning changes are
among the topics on
today’s agenda.
By SARAH KOCI and
KOURTNEY GEERS
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
LAKE OF THE OZARKS
— Many new ideas were pro-
posed for Columbia’s visioning
process Thursday during the
first night of the City Council’s
annual retreat at the Lake of
the Ozarks.
Some members of the com-
munity have expressed concern
that the collaborative visioning
process seems to have come
to a halt. The council said that
this is not true and that prog-
ress is indeed being made.
“We need to get the word out,”
Third Ward Councilman Karl
Skala said. He said that the
community thinks a vacation
has been taken from visioning.
“That’s not true,” he said.
Columbia-based consultant
Sarah Read of the Communi-
cations Center Inc. proposed
new concepts to help guide the
council through the visioning
process as it moves forward.
Read suggested that the Citizen
Oversight
Commit-
tee now be
“Citizens referred to
want to be as the CVC,
which will
engaged, either be the
and they Columbia
Visioning
will help you Commit-
if they’re tee or the
Community
engaged in Visioning
Committee.
the right A public
way.” workshop
will be held
sarah Read
in July as
Consultant,
a catalyst
Communications
for imple-
Center Inc.
menting the
ideas.
“Visioning needs more vis-
ibility soon,” Read said. “We
need to show citizens where to
engage, then show the results
of that engagement.”
Read emphasized the impor-
tance of community involve-
ment as the process takes
place.
“Citizens want to be engaged,
and they will help you if they’re
engaged in the right way,” Read
said.
Over the next two days, coun-
cil members will attend ses-
sions on other issues deemed
important to Columbia. Today’s
agenda includes discussions
about the natural resources
inventory, land disturbance
issues, growth management
plans, zoning changes, crime
issues, work force issues and
nonmotorized issues.
Saturday’s agenda includes
discussions of priorities over
the next year and what action
will be required of the council.
Check the Missourian’s pub-
lic life blog, The Watchword, at
ColumbiaMissourian.com for
updates on what happens in the
council sessions. The Sunday
Missourian will have a wrap-up
story summarizing the main
events of the retreat.
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50 cents
Rural
homes
wait in
limbo
Plans for Stadium
Boulevard leave
residents uncertain.
By KRISTINA SHERRY
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
Rustic Road is a winding
gravelly mile-long pass that
feels far-removed from city life.
Well-marked mailboxes are the
strongest indication that resi-
dences, typically set back from
the roadway, inhabit the area.
BEVERLY DENNY/Missourian Rustic Road enjoys a rare
Marq Marshall, 13, left, and Rachel Mooney, 11, don costumes and distribute promotional materials for aura of privacy, despite falling
Victory Christian Church on Thursday night at the Twilight Festival in Flat Branch Park. mostly within city limits.
Sue and Dick Underwood
moved to Columbia 25 years
Twilight dawns
ago from Ashland because they
wanted better access to a hospi-
tal. Finding their current home
on the corner of Rustic was “a
godsend,” Sue said, because it
has allowed them to enjoy “the
best of both worlds”: city ame-
nities amid country surround-
Twilight Festival brings downtown Columbia to life ings.
But the Underwoods know a
with music, carriage rides, fire-spinning and magic shows major drawback to straddling
these two worlds is the knowl-
edge that at some point, one
may overtake the other.
By ASHLEY DILLON “We like Columbia a lot. We like the only been together for about a year The fast-growing city of
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com town and the people we’re playing for,” and a half, members of The Guilty Columbia has seen increased
The sound of live music drifted Bang said. “Festivals help you if you Party say they are no longer afraid of traffic on Route WW, which is
down the streets of downtown Colum- go back to play clubs because people performing. They have several large nearly visible from the Under-
bia on Thursday night, signaling the will have seen you before. You only shows under their belt, including a woods’ home. “In limbo” is
kickoff of the 19th annual Twilight
Festival.
find out about bands like us from word
of mouth, and Columbia’s pretty cool
performance at the Twilight Festival how several Rustic residents
Please see TWILIGHT, page 3A say they’ve been living — not
According to festival coordinator like that.” knowing which homes will be
Erika Kubsch, the festival had some- Local band The Fried Crawdaddies
displaced by imminent projects
thing for everyone. Attractions includ-
ed the Commerce Bank Kids Camp
entertained those at the kids camp.
Alan Loshbaugh, the bass player, said
If you go or how property values will be
affected by the closer proxim-
in Flat Branch Park, 10 to 12 street they have played Twilight Festival WHAT: Twilight Festival ity of major roads.
bands scattered around downtown, three or four times because they enjoy On May 22, the Missouri
WHERE: Downtown, located mostly on
carriage rides and a concert series on
a closed-off section of Ninth Street.
playing in the city where they live.
“It’s neat to be a part of a commu- Ninth Street and Broadway and at Flat
Department of Transportation
presented a progress report
Restaurants and shops remained open, nity that values the arts this much,” Branch Park with its recommended extension
encouraging festival attendees to stay drummer Jimmy Culbertson said.
WHEN: Every Thursday in June and Sep- of Stadium Boulevard. The “SC-
to shop and eat. “We’re not a big city, but we still have
tember from 6 to 9 p.m. 2A” plan would extend eastward
Those in attendance experienced big-city ways.”
from U.S. 63 to meet Interstate
the rock ‘n’ roll stylings and guitar Culbertson’s son, Austin, is also part ADMISSION: Free
70 at the Lake of the Woods
prowess of Frank Bang’s Secret Stash of a band that played on Tenth Street exit. Like other routes that had
on the William Woods stage, which near The Clip Joint. The Guilty Party been considered, it would also
moved to a new location on Ninth band comprises 11- and 12-year-olds For more information or to see multi- extend Ballenger Lane over I-70
Street last year. The band has played and plays mainly classic rock. media coverage of the Twilight Festival to meet the Stadium extension
in Columbia in the past. Despite being so young and having events, go to ColumbiaMissourian.com. and would widen Route WW.
Although it is far from a go-
ahead for the project, the pro-
posed alignment does bring the
Transportation Department
a step closer to the long-dis-
Missouri’s oldest tree branches out
cussed extension of Stadium
Boulevard.
According to the report, the
proposed alignment would
displace 13 homes and eight
The tree’s DNA will be New Franklin.
Grafting is the process of
businesses along Rustic Road
grafted to seedlings. encouraging the tissues of
and Grace Lane, but it did not
specify which addresses would
one plant to fuse with those of
By DANA RANES be affected.
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com another, creating one conjoined
“I want it to go right through
plant. The wood samples from
In March, Missouri’s larg- my living room,” said Jim Dav-
the McBaine tree were grafted
est bur oak tree, located south enport, who lives across the
to seedling bur oaks on April
of Columbia near McBaine, road from the Underwoods on
14. After about two weeks, 22
received some expert forestry four acres of land. He’s lived
of the 28 grafts had been suc-
care in an attempt to slow its on that land for 40 years. Dav-
cessful. They are now growing
decline into old age. The tree enport said his biggest concern
into healthy young copies of the
is estimated to be between 200 is that the road project would
McBaine tree.
and 400 years old. Now, the pro- come within mere feet of his
There are many reasons
cess of grafting is being used home, “just close enough” that
why grafting a plant instead
to propagate the state’s cham- he and his wife would have to
of growing offspring from its
pion bur oak, also known as the seeds is the most effective way Please see STADIUM, page 8A
McBaine tree. to preserve a plant’s DNA, said
To preserve the DNA of the Mark Coggeshall, an agrofor-
tree, wood samples were taken estry research analyst for MU.
JIM BUELL/Missourian
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from the tree’s newest branch- “A seed is a result of meiosis
es to be grafted onto seedlings between a mother and a father Mark Coggeshall, a research analyst at MU’s Horticulture and See page 8A to get caught up
at MU’s Horticulture and Agro- Agroforestry Research Center, demonstrates grafting part of a on the latest Columbia Planning
forestry Research Center in Please see TREE, page 3A bur oak onto another bur oak Friday. and Zoning Commission meeting.
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