Overland Park is considering whether to require developers to pave new residential and collector streets with concrete. The proposed change, which was reviewed at the Overland Park Public Work’s meeting Wednesday, would allow the city to gradually reduce its reliance on the controversial road resurfacing method known as chip seal. Concrete street pavement has been used for several years, both on the city’s thoroughfare projects and most recently in the neighborhood street reconstruction project, said Lorraine Basalo, public works interim director. “Our oldest concrete street is Nall about 131st south towards 143rd,” she said. “And to date, we have not had any maintenance that we’ve had to do on that in the last 15 years.”
Source: Prairie Village Post
