Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly visited a northeast Wichita neighborhood Thursday to promote a law she signed earlier this month requiring more transparency from utility companies before they run powerlines through urban areas. “This is what good government looks like,” Kelly said. “It’s the public and private sector and private citizens working together to find solutions to problems.” The law — formerly House Bill 2321 — was passed in response to a 2018 Evergy project in northeast Wichita. Evergy built 105-foot-tall steel poles in front lawns throughout a predominantly low-income, historically Black neighborhood in Wichita to support high-voltage lines connecting three substations in northeast Wichita without telling city leaders or neighborhood residents of their plans.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
