Please sign this petition because each signature causes this site to automatically send an email to each of the 7 city council people and the mayor. Please also call them at the numbers provided below. The petition is an easy way to help and calling them has even more of an impact!

The video above shows footage from the first meeting where the local residents were ignored in favor of big business. Additional videos are available on the Blue Summit Community Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEv-9BgnGs1cV38BPhrGZLg

An application has been submitted for a rezoning by a demolition and excavating company. They want to get the land approved for heavy industrial activity so they can rip 44 acres of the woods out by 20th St and Blue Ridge in Independence, MO and fill it with construction and demolition waste so when the woods are long gone and filled with industrial waste, the rezoning will then allow them to sell to what ever industry they wish.

Here are pictures of the area https://www.google.com/maps/place/Independence,+MO+64052/@39.0812828,-94.4694996,707m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87c0fcbad27bf8a3:0xc91d4bc8587e6f0a

The most important things that we can do at this time are to sign this petition, call and email the city council people (contact info is below), and show up at the meeting on Monday, July 6th at 6pm at City Hall, 111 Maple St, Independence, MO. At this meeting, the city council will decide whether to vote on the rezoning or to put off voting for two more weeks.

When you call and email the city council people (contact info is below), please tell them vote NO on rezoning 44 acres of woods by 23rd St and Blue Ridge in Independence, MO.

The more concerned people they see and hear from, the better.

We need you.

The woods need you.

Destruction of our environment, community, property value, increase in health risks to us and our children (the quality of our water and air), noise pollution, heavy machinery driving up and down Blue Ridge Blvd causing dust and noise to affect everyone in their path. Our children venture into this area for adventure and play. What will they be exposing themselves to? And the animals that depend on that area for their food and home.

The woods will essentially be gone.

They were only required to notify people who owned property 185 feet of the border of the proposed industrial dump site. We all know a much greater area of people will be significantly affected by the rezoning if, we as a people allow it to go through.

After we have stopped this rezoning attempt, We are hoping, along with the help of the Heartland Conservation Alliance, the help of the people, and any grants or monies we can dig up, to purchase the land in a trust for the people and the generations to come. We would like to make it into a conservation area like Burr Oaks.

The family that has owned this land for almost a 100 years, wants to get it off their hands. We need to do that for them.

Please contact the following and tell them to vote NO on rezoning!

KDeLuccie@indepmo.org
CWhiting@indepmo.org
TVanCamp@indepmo.org
SRoberson@indepmo.org
MGragg@indepmo.org
SSaxton@indepmo.org
EWeir@indepmo.org
CDougherty@indepmo.org
independencesquare@att.net
info@ichamber.biz

Prominent City Leader Cindy McClain
Phone: (816) 252-7426
Email: independencesquare@att.net
Email: info@ichamber.biz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cindy.mcclain1
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cindymcclain8

Councilmember Karen DeLuccie
At-Large
Phone: (816) 325-7022
Fax: (816) 325-7012
E-mail: KDeLuccie@indepmo.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karen.deluccie

Councilmember Chris Whiting Mayor Pro Tem
At-Large
Phone: (816) 365-1158
Fax: (816) 325-7012
E-mail: CWhiting@indepmo.org
Twitter: twitter.com/CMChrisWhiting
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cwhiting11

Councilmember Tom Van Camp
District 4
Phone: (816) 305-3092
Fax: (816) 325-7012
E-mail: TVanCamp@indepmo.org

Councilmember Scott Roberson
District 3
Phone: (816) 325-7022
Fax: (816) 325-7012
E-mail: SRoberson@indepmo.org

Councilmember Marcie Gragg
District 1
Phone: (816) 365-1292
Fax: (816) 325-7012
E-mail: MGragg@indepmo.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcie.gragg

Sheila Saxton, Council Aide
Phone: (816) 325-7022
Fax: (816) 325-7012
E-mail: SSaxton@indepmo.org

Mayor Eileen Weir
Phone: (816) 325-7027
Fax: (816) 325-7012
E-mail: EWeir@indepmo.org
Twitter: twitter.com/WeirIndep4
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eileen.weir

Councilmember Curt Dougherty
District 2
Phone: (816) 269-2565
Fax: (816) 325-7012
E-mail: CDougherty@indepmo.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/curt.dougherty.7

Please also contact:

Independence Zoning Commission

Current Development (816) 325-7421 and (816) 325-7823

Long-Range Planning (816) 325-7418 and (816) 325-7412

Planning Division (816) 325-7425