The county’s set to break ground on a brand new $21 million medical examiner’s building Thursday, but not before handling a last minute hurdle from concerned neighbors.
County leaders and representatives from the city are meeting in Olathe Wednesday night, hoping to work out a solution to concerns about the construction just brought to light.
Just off 119th and Sunset is the area the county will be building the medical examiner’s office. The site backs up to the Northwood Trails subdivision. A large wooded area was a buffer between the construction and the neighborhood, until this week.
Scott Green’s daughter took video of hundreds of trees behind their home as workers started to tear down dozens of those trees.
Neighbors were upset because they didn’t believe the county was planning to remove any of those trees during construction. The county says it planned to clear some trees all along. But now the neighborhood is insisting the county do something to fix the forest.
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