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Peterson hired as Manhattan’s Director of Community Development

info2022-04-06T00:39:00-05:00April 6th, 2022|

Manhattan has found its next Director of Community Development. Stephanie Peterson, who currently serves as Executive Director of the Flint Hills Metropolitan Planning Organization, has been hired to fill the position and will start on May 9. She will succeed Eric Cattell, who retired in March. Peterson will oversee the city department which administers different aspects of development, land subdivision, long-range and current planning and housing and zoning issues within Manhattan. Peterson joined the Flint Hills MPO as Transportation Planner in 2013, shortly after its designation by the State of Kansas. It provides a regional forum to coordinate transportation planning and [...]

Pet Ordinance is passed by Atchison

info2022-04-06T07:10:24-05:00April 6th, 2022|

Joe Warren, Assistant City Manager, presented Adopt Ordinance 6680 to the commission at the Monday evening meeting. The ordinance is repealing the old amendment and including new residential requirements to the keeping of animals on property inside the city limits. The ordinance grew out of complaints about a property near 8th and Unity streets that has dog houses with dogs and no living quarters on the lot. The owners of the animals live across the alley from the lot with the dogs. Discussions ensued at the city level about the uses of vacant lots in general about whether there should be [...]

Kansans doctors praise federal COVID-19 funding for underserved communities

info2022-04-06T00:34:41-05:00April 6th, 2022|

Doctors at a Kansas hospital say a half-billion-dollar federal grant is helping combat COVID-19 in communities across the state most disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Using funds from the National Institute of Health Rapid Acceleration and Diagnostics in Underserved Populations program grant, the University of Kansas Health System leaders say they have been able to engage with communities in need. The hospital engaged with 10 focus counties: Crawford, Douglas, Finney, Johnson, Lyon, Riley, Saline, Sedgwick, Seward and Wyandotte. Ed Ellerbeck, chairman of population health at KU Medical Center, said the hospital held more than 500 testing events and delivered almost 50,000 [...]

Wichita City Council OKs renovation of City Hall

info2022-04-06T00:32:57-05:00April 6th, 2022|

Wichita's City Hall is getting some improvements on the first floor. Today, the Wichita City Council approved a plan to make renovations that should help citizens who have business in the building. During the coronavirus pandemic, the City made temporary arrangements so most customers could get the help they needed on the first floor. The main focus was to help people requiring customer service from Water Utilities and Housing Community Services. Tuesday morning, council members voted 7-0 to make permanent changes to the first floor. The $205,000 cost would come from Wichita Capital Improvement Program (CIP) funds. Source: KSN-TV

USD 232 buying Olathe farmland south of K-10 for potential third high school

info2022-04-06T00:30:37-05:00April 6th, 2022|

USD 232 in De Soto plans to buy about 150 acres just south of K-10 Highway as a potential site for three new schools, including a high school. The purchase: The USD 232 school board on Monday unanimously agreed to purchase the property at 30400 W. 127th Street, on the northeast corner of West 127th Street and Waverly Road, for about $1.6 million, or roughly $10,900 per acre, from property owner B&C Land and Cattle Company LLC. Potential uses: Cost for this land purchase will come from the roughly $5 million the district set aside for land acquisition as part of the May [...]

Overland Park finalizes five-year plan for capital improvements

info2022-04-06T07:11:51-05:00April 6th, 2022|

Overland Park’s next five years of capital improvements have officially been set. At its meeting Monday, the Overland Park City Council adopted the city’s capital improvement plan for the 2023-2027 duration. This follows approval from the Overland Park Planning Commission in March. Details: This includes projects in several categories across the city’s Fire, Police, Planning, Public Works and Parks and Recreation departments. The $232 million five-year plan includes capital improvements — which typically encompass new facilities or fixes to existing ones — along with some maintenance repairs and recurring costs for city programs. Source: Prairie Village Post

Overland Park City Council debates how to regulate short-term rentals following shooting

info2022-04-06T07:12:10-05:00April 6th, 2022|

Overland Park may soon have a new set of rules governing short-term rentals in the city. At its Monday meeting, the City Council’s committee of the whole discussed how short-term rentals, such as Airbnb vacation homes, should be regulated in town and considered if they should be allowed at all. Monday’s discussion comes two weeks after a shooting at an Overland Park residence that was being used as a short-term rental. Source: Prairie Village Post

Prairie Village is restarting its civic center conversation

info2022-04-06T07:12:33-05:00April 6th, 2022|

Prairie Village’s ad-hoc civic center committee reconvened for the first time in years last week, restarting a conversation that was largely put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But there’s a long history behind efforts to remake the four-square-block around City Hall that includes Harmon Park and Shawnee Mission East High School. The area, now being referred to by the city as Prairie Village’s civic center, is bound by Delmar Street and Mission Road on the east and west, and 75th and 79th Streets on the north and south. Source: Prairie Village Post

70K Jayhawks on Mass Street, Lawrence police estimate

info2022-04-06T07:12:50-05:00April 6th, 2022|

Following what will surely be remembered as one of the greatest comebacks in NCAA history, 70,000 KU fans flooded Massachusetts Street late Monday night into the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to an estimate from law enforcement. The Lawrence Police Department tweeted just before 2 a.m. Tuesday that “we ended the party with minimal incidents. Preliminary reports show 3 arrests and one person issued a notice to appear without a physical arrest. None included serious injuries.” The Douglas County booking log indicates arrests on suspicion of interference with law enforcement and battery on law enforcement; criminal damage to property; and [...]

Report: Kansas is getting more transparent with its economic development incentives

info2022-04-06T07:13:15-05:00April 6th, 2022|

A transparency law passed by the Kansas Legislature in 2019 has boosted the state's score on a national list that grades transparency around economic development incentive awards. Kansas is among the most improved states on this year's ranking from Good Jobs First, a nonprofit research center that promotes accountability in economic development. Kansas moved up 30 spots on the list, landing 15th out of 50 states with a score of 28.8 out of 100. "Kansas Commerce prides itself on disclosing to a great extent the companies attracted to our state, and those thriving in our state, as the result of these programs," [...]