hen Frankie Martin's Garden opened in Cottleville last summer, there was at least one amenity that stood out from other metro area food truck gardens: a parking lot for golf carts.¶ That's in part. ¶ Among those residents is Nathan Tormala, a St. Charles County highway construction manager who built a home in Cottleville. Tormala says Cottleville still has a “small town feel,” despite its steadily increasing population. ¶ Ronkoski estimates that Cottleville Trails, one of the city's newest residential developments—replete with five lakes, a community beach, walking trails, a community pool and pool house, community pavilion and firepit, and children's play areas—will increase the city's population by about 500. Scott J. Drachnik, president and CEO of the Economic Development Council of St. Charles County, says, “The city leaders have a balanced approach to growth.”
