The Prairie Village City Council Monday evening approved an ordinance that will give further protections to most of the city’s trees. The ordinance classifies trees to be protected in four categories, based primarily on their location on residential streets in on private lots. Those classifications include right-of-way or street trees, frontage trees, lot trees and buildable area trees. Tree removal is not completely prohibited by the ordinance, but it does put more barriers in place.  If the tree is dead, diseased, dying, or needs to be removed for construction or safety purposes, it can be taken out and replaced. Source: Prairie [...]

Staff meteorologist Chris Bowman said tornado warnings and other weather-related alerts can be issued countywide, but in this instance, the warnings were targeted for areas in the county’s southeast corner, around Spring Hill, southern Olathe, Stanley, Overland Park and Leawood. He said that was due to how the storm was moving and what areas the NWS determined would be most impacted. “We draw a polygon around what we feel is the area under greatest threat,” Bowman said. Source: Prairie Village Post