From this morning’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis City Counselor Julian K. Bush affirmed that Portland, as well as several other streets in the West End, are indeed private.
“They are owned by the property owners, and the owners pay for them, the street repairs and maintenance,” Bush said Monday.
“The city has no right-of-way onto those streets,” he said.
Bush said homeowners are within their rights to exclude people from either driving their cars or walking through those areas.
I post this as information only and not as justification for these idiots.
ETA: Apparently they don’t let Google in either. No street view of the neighborhood.