Shawnee County OKs permit for event center, bed and breakfast

Rod McCollum wants to “grow old and die” on the land where he was raised just southeast of Topeka, he told the Shawnee County Commission on Monday.
Commissioners subsequently voted 3-0 to approve permits that McCollum, 63, said should enable him to do that.
Those two permits authorize the McCollum Family Trust to establish a bed and breakfast inn consisting of four guest rooms in his existing home and to convert an existing barn into a special event center on the property involved, provided each of 10 specific conditions are met.
(Read more: Local – The Topeka Capital-Journal)