Over neighbors’ objections, Overland Park council OKs developer’s affordable housing project rezoning request

Neighbors petitioned against it, but the Overland Park City Council came down on the side of more affordable housing as they approved rezoning for a small plot of land surrounded by older homes a few blocks west of downtown. The alternative, they feared, would have been big “McMansions” akin to ones Prairie Villagers have seen.

Council members unanimously overrode a protest petition from neighbors near 8505 W. 80th Street seeking to block a rezoning that would allow a developer to build four new homes there.

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