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Garden City discusses changes to food truck license fees

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Garden City’s Neighborhood and Development Services staff on Tuesday broke down proposed changes to its local itinerant business licenses, permits that determine whether food trucks, door-to-door contractors and other mobile businesses can legally operate within city limits.Garden City’s current policy offers separate itinerant business licenses for non-local and local businesses, the latter defined as a business that has operated a 1,000-square-foot permanent physical ... (Read more: News - The Garden City Telegram)

Prairie Village, YMCA and JoCo Library looking to field feasibility study on community center idea

info2019-07-03T07:58:47-05:00July 3rd, 2019|

The city of Prairie Village, the YMCA of Greater Kansas City and the Johnson County Library have agreed in principle to jointly field a high level feasibility study on a possible community center project, Prairie Village Mayor Eric Mikkelson announced Monday. In remarks at the city council meeting last night, Mikkelson said he expected that city staff would have a memorandum of understanding between the three parties to present in the coming weeks, perhaps as soon as the next council meeting. The agreement would authorize the expenditure of up to $50,000 on a market study with the cost split among the [...]

Developers, city leaders celebrate grand opening of The District at Lenexa City Center

info2019-07-03T07:58:19-05:00July 3rd, 2019|

Developers and Lenexa city leaders last week celebrated the grand opening of The District at Lenexa City Center. The District at City Center Lenexa is a mixed-use development featuring retail, corporate, residential, civic and recreational components located at West 87th Street and Penrose Lane, across the street from the Public Market and the new Lenexa City Center Library. In his opening remarks Thursday, Copaken Brooks Principal Keith Copaken welcomed the crowd to “downtown in the making.” “This is the next generation of suburban mixed use,” Copaken said. “There’s not another development in Kansas City that combines all these pieces of the [...]

Tonganoxie residents urge emphasis on city code enforcements

info2019-07-03T07:57:46-05:00July 3rd, 2019|

Some Tonganoxie residents are asking the city to continue to look at ways to improve blighted properties and other areas that might need addressed. Former Tonganoxie City Council member Jamie Lawson gave a presentation in front of the council and roughly 50 other residents at the June 3 council meeting that discussed concern about residences in the community that could be cleaned up, including properties that have been repeat offenders when it comes to ordinance violations. (Read more: TonganoxieMirror.com stories)

Shawnee County hopes to address food insecurity through creation of new council

info2019-07-03T08:05:49-05:00July 3rd, 2019|

Shawnee County Health Department is looking to create the area’s first local farm and food council in an effort to address food insecurity among county residents. Craig Barnes, manager of the department’s Health Outreach and Planning Division, announced such plans in a presentation Monday morning to the Shawnee County Commission. According to Barnes, impending creation of the council is one of four initiatives the health department expects will promote healthier living in Shawnee County. Two of those — development of the Shawnee County Farm and Food Advisory Council and investment in a “health planner” position — are already underway, Barnes noted. [...]

Wakefield to begin fining residents with unclean gutters

info2019-07-03T08:00:07-05:00July 3rd, 2019|

Starting in July, the City of Wakefield will begin issuing $25 tickets to residents who failed to keep their street gutters clean. The City of Wakefield posted that the fines will begin to be issued after annual cleaning of streets, which takes place in July. CleanRite, with whom the city has a contract to clean the streets, will be coming for three to four days to clean and sweep the streets. (Read more: www.ccenterdispatch.com - RSS Results in news,local/* of type article)

Lawrence city leaders want cap on how many whole-home Airbnbs a single owner can operate

info2019-07-03T08:01:42-05:00July 3rd, 2019|

City leaders expressed interest Tuesday in putting a cap on the number of whole-home Airbnbs and other short-term rentals that can be operated by a single owner. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-2, with commissioners Stuart Boley and Leslie Soden opposing, to have city staff draft changes to existing regulations that would establish a licensing process for all short-term rentals, including whole-home rentals where the property owner lives elsewhere. The license program would allow all types of short-term rentals by right citywide, but would allow the licenses to be revoked for just cause. The commission [...]

Dual roles are called ‘incompatible’

info2019-07-03T08:04:29-05:00July 3rd, 2019|

Marion’s long history of city council members serving on its planning board is not specifically prohibited, but a 1977 attorney general’s opinion calls the two roles “incompatible.” Readers asked the Record to investigate after noting that John Wheeler, Marion city councilman and candidate for mayor, serves on both the planning commission and the airport authority. His current three-year term on the planning commission will expire in December 2021. Mayor Todd Heitschmidt said a council member had been on the planning board for the 13 years he’s been on the council. (Read more: HILLSBORO Star-Journal)

Century II or something new? Group seeks answers to Wichita’s riverfront questions

info2019-07-03T08:04:59-05:00July 3rd, 2019|

A coalition of Wichita boosters working to shape the future of the city’s riverfront has announced its first — tentative — public meeting date. The group says it wants to put the community’s vision for the future of the east bank of the Arkansas River downtown on paper as the Riverfront Legacy Master Plan. A primary focus will be connecting the east bank with the ballpark development on the west bank, downtown and development to the north to the Keeper of the Plains. It’s inviting members of the public to attend a meeting, scheduled tentatively for July 31. It plans other [...]

Downtown Topeka is getting livelier, residents say

info2019-07-03T08:05:23-05:00July 3rd, 2019|

Downtown Topeka has gotten much livelier since Julian Jenkins and Marcelino Gomez III moved there last June, they say. A year ago, Gomez said, he’d be greeted by silence and a general lack of activity whenever he went out front after 5 p.m at their second-story apartment in the 700 block of S. Kansas Avenue. “But now we go outside and there’s people hanging out, kids hanging out,” he said. “There’s people walking up and down ‘the av.’ We call it ‘the av.’” (Read more: Local - The Topeka Capital-Journal)