A decision by the Platte County Planning and Zoning Commission to deny the preliminary plat for the Lake at Tomahawke Ridge was upheld by the Platte County Commission with a vote of 2-1. The commission heard an appeal by the developers of the proposed neighborhood east of Platte City at the intersection of Hwy. 92 and Winan Road. Presiding Commissioner Betty Knight and Jim Plunkett, second district commissioner, voted to uphold the planning and zoning commission’s decision. Tom Pryor, first district commissioner, voted to approve the preliminary plat. The development would have placed 655 homes on about 300 acres of property north of Hwy. 92 and east of Winan Road.
The Platte Valley Bank on Barry Road was robbed on Thursday around 9:30 a.m. A black man around six feet tall weighing between 170 and 180 pounds, wearing a green hard hat, tan coveralls, and safety glasses walked in to the bank at 6324 NW Barry Road, pulled out a grocery bag and told the teller to fill the bag. When a second teller walked up, the man handed her another bag and told her to fill it, also. Authorities say the man did not show a weapon to the clerks and made no threat of having a weapon.
The Platte County Pachyderm Club had local radio talk show host Chris Stigall from KCMO 710 speak during its monthly meeting at O’Dowd’s in Zona Rosa, with a topic of “bias in the media.”