The St. Charles County Council will vote Monday on a resolution opposing a Maryland Heights-backed development across the Missouri River on 1,800 acres of flood plain.

Maryland Heights earlier this month issued a request for proposals for the massive development project, a plan city officials have pushed for since the completion of the Howard Bend Levee.

One of the interested developers is attorney Alan Bornstein, a business partner of Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke, who is also an investor in the project. Bornstein already owns 655 acres of the proposed redevelopment area and was working to acquire the remainder. He suggested to Maryland Heights that the project would need tax credits or other public subsidies.

After referencing the regional flooding in December, the St. Charles County resolution says the council “opposes any proposal to develop in flood-prone areas or continuing a pattern of development that can be expected to divert flood waters onto other areas.”

St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann has been an opponent of past flood plain development.

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