Following years of resident complaints about its chip seal method for road repairs, Overland Park is exploring a possible solution: a sales tax increase. Residents have voiced long-standing concerns about chip seal, arguing that the finely crushed rock used as a top-layer surface often gets tracked around residential streets and can prove hazardous to children and cyclists. Increasing city sales taxes could cover costs for a different but more expensive kind of road resurfacing, allowing the city to gradually lessen its reliance on chip seal.
Source: Prairie Village Post
