Week in Review: Lake Saint Louis Preps for Tax Hit, Gun Range Construction Progressing and More

Too busy last week to stay up to date on all the news happening in Wentzville? Not to worry. Patch has your back.

In case you missed them, here were some of the top headlines from Wentzville Patch from the last few days.

• Lake Saint Louis is batttening down the hatches by approving a new budget that projects a only a one percent increase in sales tax revenues for 2013-2014. Both city staff and elected officials have conjectured that the opening of two new outlet malls in the Chesterfield Valley could draw sales away from Lake Saint Louis' Shoppes at Hawk Ridge and the upscale Meadows shopping mall. The new $9,582,040 budget is a decrease from last year's $9,750,436.

• As each day goes by, the old Burger King on Veterans Memorial Parkway and Pic Drive looks less and less like the fast food "Have it your Way" restaurant and more like, well, something that's not a Burger King. But once that familiar blue roof is gone, Wentzville will have a new gun shop and indoor shooting range. 

• With complaints about speeding in neighborhoods mounting, the Wentzville Board of Aldermen are taking a look at a possible ordinance that would designate certain streets as double-fine zones. At Wednesday night's work session, Chief of Police Lisa Harrison shared a draft ordinance that identified 11 streets. Harrison said that the roads were chosen because they had the highest number of complaints about speeding. 

• A couple of weeks ago, Wentzville Patch bemoaned the fact thatconstruction on the loop road intended to connect Pitman with Highway A had come to a complete standstill. That same week, orange construction barrels appeared on the highway A shoulders. And since then, a section of guardrail was removed and newly-poured concrete now connects St. Charles County's new East Pitman Loop with Missouri Highway A.