Records status · based on the Records Response Checklist
What the City Has Confirmed, Withheld & Left Outstanding
Based on the City’s written responses of July 2, July 7, and August 4, 2026, and the records production of August 6, 2026.
Still outstanding — not yet answered either way
Plant location and setbacks within Lot 5, the applicant’s operations narrative, the $23,850 CBB study’s full payment and reimbursement records, and the Star Connection Drive 2025 variance file. Several items formerly listed here — the final traffic study, the 40%/75% calculations, permits, and the §405.100(A)(7) review record — were answered “no responsive records” on August 6 and have moved to the confirmed column above.
Requested August 17, 2026 — awaiting response
- Any plan sheet, revision, or note showing a fuel-oil or diesel tank — its location, capacity, containment, fill point, or fueling area. The applicant’s own February 2025 State filing for this address lists “Fuel Oil Tanks” and “Diesel Generators” as plant equipment, and the State authorization requires ultra-low sulfur diesel with records of every fuel shipment received.
- Any Fire Marshal review, permit, or inspection concerning fuel storage or dispensing at this address.
- The equipment description on which the M-1 use classification rested, and where it appears in the file.
- Any structure heights or elevations, and which structures the City considers exempt under §405.100(A)(2)(a).
- The provision of Chapter 405 under which this plant is authorized — including whether it was treated as the “Temporary Asphalt Or Concrete Batching Plants” temporary use, and if so the permit, the time limit, and the local construction project.
- Any State authorization issued after April 1, 2026, the expiration date stated on the face of the March 12, 2025 authorization for this site.
- Post–July 31 plat filings, and the August 17 Commissioner packet now that it exists.
- Resolution of the items in the City’s own July 15 plat review — the Chapter 412 stream determination and buffer, the tax certification, the abstract of title, and the unlabeled tract.
- Written confirmation reconciling the “no permits issued or pending” answer against the separately-confirmed water and stormwater permits issued against the six-lot plan — and, if any building/grading/access/occupancy permit has since issued, its date, given Condition 2 of the June 11 approval bars such permits until the consolidation plat is approved.
- The June 1, 2026 joint-workshop packet and confirmation of whether a recording exists (the workshop minutes themselves were produced July 7).
- The setback determination and the lot dimensions/survey or plat that building coverage and the 40% open-storage limit were measured against, given the lots are described as “conceptual only.”
- Reconciliation of the research-fee billing rate ($34.87/hr billed vs. $31.13/hr in effect when the request was received/could begin) and an itemized receipt matching each payment to the records it covers.
Request for a procedural hold — noted & answered
Our request (July 1, 2026): pending the Board's July 9 consideration, we asked the City to hold off on (1) any “conditions-met” determination under the June 11 approval, (2) any grading/land-disturbance/building/development permit, (3) recording or accepting any six-parcel consolidation/boundary-adjustment plat, and (4) accepting the 90-foot right-of-way dedication — and to give advance written notice before any of these steps were taken.
The City's answer (July 2, 2026, the City Clerk): the Clerk's office says it has no independent legal authority to suspend or delay permits, condition-satisfaction determinations, plat recordings, or right-of-way acceptances absent Board direction or a legal requirement to do so — staff will continue processing matters in the normal course of business. The City also declined to commit to advance written notice of future administrative steps beyond what law or ordinance requires. The City noted the Board itself must be careful not to infringe the applicant's due-process rights or impair any rights the applicant may have already vested by relying in good faith on the June 11 approval. Our agenda request (M-1 use classification; reconsideration/amendment/remand) was confirmed received for the July 9 meeting, though the Clerk's office could not speak to the Board's intended course of action.
Left open: whether any of the four listed steps were in fact taken between July 1 and the Board's action, and whether any “vested rights” the City alludes to could have accrued before the §410.010(G) consolidation and right-of-way dedication were ever completed.
Public city documents, as supplied by the Clerk
*Note: it isn’t always clear why each of these was included in the City’s response to our requests, but here is what we’ve received.
Nov 4, 2024 Workshop Minutes — Roelker Road Impact Fee
Asphalt Batch — Jan 29, 2025 Meeting Minutes
Aug 18, 2025 P&Z Meeting Minutes
Mar 2, 2026 Workshop Minutes
Magruder Quarry Full Project Set (01/29/26)
Magruder Asphalt Turn Lane (draft)
Technical Memorandum — Preliminary Findings (May 20, 2026)
Jun 1, 2026 Workshop Minutes
Jun 11, 2026 Posted Special Meeting Agenda
Jun 11, 2026 Open Session Minutes
Jun 11, 2026 Special Open Session Minutes
Response to Second Request — Jun 29, 2026
Response to Request — Jul 1, 2026 Letter
Response re Missouri Sunshine Law (Jul 2, 2026)
Response to 7-1-2026 Consolidated Records (v2) — Jul 7, 2026
Consolidated Records — Research/Fee Breakdown (Jul 7, 2026)
Response — Access to Public Records, Consolidated List (Jul 7, 2026)
Response re Board of Adjustment (Jul 2, 2026)
Response re Meeting Logistics (Jul 2, 2026)
Response to Jun 16 Request — Jun 17, 2026
Alderman Documents (partial — some withheld/redacted) — Jul 7, 2026
Proposed Changes to Zoning Code, Rev. No. 2
Public Works Remediation Bids
Vacant Building Inspections
500 E. North First St. — Proposed Apartments
Applicable Emails (Jul 7, 2026)
Records Production, Jul 10 2026
City Fee Letter — Jul 17, 2026
Records Response — Jul 20, 2026
City Response — Jul 20, 2026
The operator’s own State filings
Missouri DNR records for this address, posted in full. These are the documents the fuel-tank and expiration questions come from.
The site plans — preliminary through current
In date order, so anyone can see what changed. Compare any of these against the equipment diagram above: the fuel-oil tanks, diesel generators, asphalt oil heater, and dryer the operator listed for the State do not appear on them, and no structure heights or elevations are stated.
Drainage & stormwater review
The engineer’s stormwater and erosion-control review letters, both dated February 10, 2026 — before the consolidation and before the 90-foot right-of-way dedication. Each asked for updated sheets with the final plans. Whether drainage was re-reviewed against the final boundary is one of the questions still outstanding.
A question the plan does not answer: where are the trucks cleaned? Hot-mix operations commonly clean truck beds and equipment with diesel or a release agent, so asphalt does not adhere. That produces wash-down carrying petroleum and asphalt residue. We can find no truck-washing or equipment-cleaning area on the approved plan — no location, no surfacing, no collection, no containment, and no treatment. So the questions are simple: where does that cleaning take place, what is the surface under it, and where does the runoff go? The site drains downhill toward an outfall, with a creek beyond. We are not asserting how this operator does it — we are asking what the City reviewed and approved, because nothing in the plan addresses it.
The road study — unfinished, and what the City paid for it
The traffic work behind this project is a preliminary memorandum, not a final signed study. The City has confirmed in writing that no final traffic study exists.
The invoice states the contract amount as $23,850.00 and the work as 75.00% complete, billing $17,887.50 — invoice 260280001, dated June 10, 2026, project “2026-028 Roelker Road Planning,” from CBB / George L. Crawford and Associates. The City paid it June 25, 2026 by check 57075, charged to a ledger line reading “MAGRUDER ASPHALT.” The described work is a “Sketch Planning Study.” No further billing has appeared since. So the percentage is not our estimate — the engineer’s own invoice says the road study is three-quarters done, and the City has separately confirmed in writing that no final traffic study exists.
The engineer’s invoice — $23,850 contract, 75.00% complete, $17,887.50 billed
The City’s payment record — check 57075, Jun 25, 2026, ledger line “MAGRUDER ASPHALT”
Technical Memorandum, Preliminary Findings — May 20, 2026
Board minutes commissioning the study — Feb 12, 2025
TREKK Traffic Impact Study — Wright City High School / Roelker Rd
Magruder Asphalt turn lane — draft
Roelker Road impact fee — Nov 4, 2024 workshop minutes
The City’s own precedent — an asphalt plant that needed a variance and a public hearing
In January 2025 — five months before the Magruder approval — the City published this notice, signed by the City Clerk:
“The Wright City Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, January 29, 2025… 1) Star Connection Drive, Wright City, Missouri. The applicant seeks a variance from the paving requirement of the Wright City Zoning Code, Section 405.110.C.1. “Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements”, to allow gravel surfaces for a proposed asphalt batch plant.”
Three things follow from the City’s own document.
One: §405.110(C)(1) — the paving-and-drainage requirement — applies to an
asphalt batch plant, not merely to parking lots. The City said so itself.
Two: gravel surfacing at an asphalt plant is
not compliant without relief; that is why a variance was sought.
Three: the route for that relief is the
Board of Adjustment, by variance, at a noticed public hearing where neighbors may speak.
And the Magruder plan proposes gravel. The approved project set’s own
Site Legend lists a “
Gravel Limit” alongside “Concrete Limit” and “Asphalt Limit.” The sheets label a “
Material Haul Road — Gravel” and a “
Gravel Parking Lot.” And the City has confirmed in writing that
no variance application exists for this project.
So the same City that required a Board of Adjustment variance and a noticed public hearing for gravel surfaces at the Star Connection asphalt batch plant approved gravel surfaces here with no variance and no public hearing. The questions are direct: where is the variance for these gravel areas, when was the hearing, and what surfacing was approved for the fuel tank pad, the delivery standing area, and the dispensing point — none of which appear on the plan at all?
Land-disturbance permit — no record produced
Grading a site of this size near a creek ordinarily requires a
Missouri land-disturbance permit (MO-R series) and either an
industrial stormwater permit under the state’s asphalt-industry general permit or a written determination that none is required.
The City has produced no such record. Its written responses state “no responsive records” as to permits — on July 7 and again in the August 6 production — even though a water permit and a stormwater permit have separately been confirmed to exist
against the six-lot plan, the configuration that predates the consolidation. We have also been given to understand the land-disturbance permit was obtained before the plat consolidation and boundary adjustment were finalized. Whether it has been reconciled or reissued against the final, as-approved plat is unanswered, and is part of our August 17 request.
And the sequence matters. These permits are issued against a specific site plan and a specific lot configuration. They cannot properly be applied for — or relied upon — until
a complete and accurate site plan exists and the consolidation plat is recorded. A permit obtained against the six-lot configuration describes a property that, once consolidated, no longer exists as drawn. A permit obtained against a site plan that omits the fuel-oil tanks, the diesel generators, the asphalt oil heater, the dryer, and the crusher describes an operation that is not the one proposed. In both cases the permit and the project no longer match, and the mismatch runs in the direction that matters: it is the drainage and disturbance calculations that change when boundaries move and equipment is added.
So the order should be: a complete site plan showing all equipment and its placement → the consolidation plat approved and recorded → then land-disturbance and stormwater permitting against that recorded configuration. Reversing that order produces permits that describe a property and an operation that no longer exist.
The August 6, 2026 records response is now posted — see below. Still to be added: “Response to 7-31-2026 — Research Breakdown” (August 6, the fee itemization) and “Response to 7-31-2026 request letter for payment” (August 4). The July 15, 2026 plan review is posted — see “Plan Review Comments, July 15, 2026” under the site plans above.