A new QuikTrip is being considered in Sunset Hills, located at 10200 Rahning Road along Highway 30. The 16-pump gas station and convenience store would be the first QuikTrip — an Oklahoma-based chain with 138 locations in Missouri — in Sunset Hills.

The site at 10200 Rahning Road is a 9.5-acre plot of land, which is currently a mostly forested area, directly west and downhill from the Sunset Pointe subdivision. Per city documents, QuikTrip plans to keep some shrubs and landscaping at the property line that buttresses against the residential area. 

On March 5, the Sunset Hills Planning and Zoning Commission motioned for all three applications related to the project — a rezoning amendment, planned development permit and conditional use permit — be recommended to the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen for approval.

One resident of the Sunset Pointe neighborhood, Cheryl Mather, voiced her concern that crime would increase in the area with the addition of the gas station. Jonathan Haley, the real estate project manager with QuikTrip, replied that security would be maintained in-house and monitored around the clock.

“Overall, I would say there’s been a positive vibe from the community so far,” city administrator Brittany Gillett said. 

The only questions or negative commentary, according to Gillett, have come from residents of the Sunset Pointe neighborhood at the top of the nearby hill, though she says they “have not been immensely negative.”

For now, the project heads to the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen on April 22, where it will receive a public hearing and first reading.

“I’d just encourage people to come out and speak if they have anything to say,” Gillett said. “That’s what those public hearings are for.”

The project will be put to a second reading and official vote at the May 13 Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen meeting.