MISSION STATEMENT: To encourage development that is congruent with the architecture, character, scale and design of the historic HiPointe/DeMun neighborhood.

Clayton Citizens for Responsible Development is a nonprofit community group that has formed in response to entirely inappropriate proposed developments in the historic Hi-Pointe/De Mun neighborhood of Clayton, Missouri. Hi-Pointe, Hi-Pointe Addition, De Mun and Tuscany Park Subdivisions in Clayton all are now among the elite four percent of historic districts with National Historic Registry status at the national level due to our non-profit group. This part of our web site will be updated frequently to keep citizens abreast of political issues of interest to the preservation of our historic districts. Please help support our efforts by contributing your time and effort or by making donations!

Elected and appointed representatives from the City of Clayton continue to use unfair tactics to allow inappropriate development that threatens to destroy our historic neighborhoods.
They have wasted $30,000 of taxpayers money on the Clayton Road Urban Design District (CR-UDD) by publicly (and illegally) stating that it is just a set of "guidelines" rather than a City Ordinance containing an enforceable set of standards. To make matters even worse they are selling a city-owned parking lot at a discount to a developer.
The result of these misguided manipulations of due process has quickly become apparent. The Planning Commission has allowed arbitrary changes in building lengths, impervious coverage, architectural detail and building materials in the 6400 block of Clayton Road. They have redefined roof styles to help developers build taller, and have blatantly ignored the intent of the CR-UDD. The result is an oversized, poor quality, architecturally inappropriate building approved for construction on Clayton Rd. More of the same will follow unless taxpayers and voters wake up.
They have allowed the merging of lots in the 6600 block of Alamo in direct defiance of City ordinances requiring that any new buildings fit the character of the surrounding subdivision.
They ignored the popular will of over 80% of Hi-Pointe West Subdivision residents by passing the CR-UDD without changes that would help protect the neighborhoods. Obviously they knew long ago that it was a sham and had no intention of enforcing even the minimum standards that they are bound by law as our elected officials to enforce.
They have wasted an unknown amount of taxpayers money on a non-binding referendum on eminent domain when random sampling already showed what the vote emphasized - at least 70% of Clayton residents do not want eminent domain used for the benefit of private developers and corporations.
It is clear that the officials in the City of Clayton plan to sacrifice the Hi-Pointe/De Mun historic neighborhoods to developers in order to help solve the budgetary problems that they created by their illegal methods of governance.
State and National Political Support for Our Cause.
The Clayton Road Urban Design District at Odds with City Zoning.

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