With spring and an approved concept plan, Overland Park officials said Monday they’re eager to take the first steps toward an improved College Boulevard corridor they hope will bring life back to what is becoming an entertainment dead zone.
Council members endorsed the first action steps of their new College and Metcalf corridor plan, allowing staff to start work on it as early as this month. Some members were particularly enthusiastic to take a look at how the convention center parking lot could be better used.
With the vote, they set in motion plans for a traffic and engineering study — to look at the feasibility of reducing the number of lanes on College – plus a parking analysis. Those two projects, budgeted for $175,000 altogether, could begin this year.
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