Proposed annexation would expand De Soto more than 14 square miles in less than a year

De Soto officials recently approved development guidelines for the portion of the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant that isn’t yet within city limits, as they prepare to consider absorption of that land in the near future. Sunflower Redevelopment Group has asked the city to annex 2,800 acres, or about 4.38 square miles, south of 127th Street within the shuttered World War II powder and propellant plant from unincorporated Johnson County. Sunflower has owned the plant, located southeast of a bend in Kansas Highway 10 in western Johnson County, since 2005. Such an annexation would further balloon De Soto’s boundaries from November 2021, when the 7,400-acre city nearly doubled in size with its addition of 6,376 acres — about 9.96 square miles. That absorption included roughly 6,000 acres in the 9,000-acre ex-Sunflower plant.
Source: Kansas City Business Journal