Archives for “Building codes”
Tweet In the down economic environment, many people would view construction of new houses in the area as a good thing. But a teardown-rebuild project on 72nd Terrace in Prairie Village has some of its neighbors grumbling. The new house going up between Roe Avenue and Tomahawk Road is considerably taller than those on the [...]
Tweet Members of the Prairie Village City Council last night seemed to have one overriding question for developers who submitted plans last week for a new CVS building at Corinth Square: Seriously? Responding to calls from city staff for council input prior to Wednesday’s neighborhood meeting on the proposal, council members lambasted the drawings submitted [...]
Tweet Fairway issued a stop work order to the owner of the old Sinclair gas station at 5938 Mission Road last Thursday in response to construction work that was being done without a permit. Construction crews had begun to tear out the pavement outside of the building’s garages. Fairway has advised the owners that they [...]
Tweet Bell | Knott + Associates, the architects designing the UMB building that will go up on the site occupied for nearly 60 years by Roney’s service station, has formally submitted updated construction plans to Prairie Village. The new plans address a few concerns the city’s planning commission had with the original drawings, which had [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village city council on Monday voted unanimously to give Millicent Seested, the elderly woman who owns 7925 Reinhardt Lane, two more weeks to show progress on taking care of the numerous nuisances the city has cited on her property. Seested, who told city staff prior to the public hearing that she would [...]
Tweet Debate over the issue was long, and its presence on the agenda controversial, but with a 7-5 vote on Monday night the Prairie Village city council took the first step toward establishing a test location for an “overlay district” that would help bring legal clarification to home association design standards that have been deemed [...]






























