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Tweet As key dates in the approval process for the Mission Chateau development approach, we’ve gotten a number of questions about the relative size of the development and about its impact on Prairie Village city finances. We’ll try to delve into a bit of detail on these issues in the coming weeks, starting today with [...]
Tweet After months of posturing, proponents and protestors of the proposed Mission Chateau senior living development will finally get their day before the Prairie Village Planning Commission. The Commission is set to open a public hearing on the Tutera Group’s plans to build a senior community on the site of the shuttered Mission Valley Middle [...]
Tweet With the formal plans for the Tutera Group’s Mission Chateau senior living community development set to go before the Prairie Village planning commission in less than two weeks, we thought it might be a good time to do a community temperature check on the proposal. (We inadvertently posted an outdated overhead view of the [...]
Tweet With a tentative timeline set for the Mission Chateau project to go before the Prairie Village planning commission and city council for approval votes, members of the Mission Valley Neighbors Association are again organizing to publicly oppose the proposed senior living community. Last week, the group’s board sent the following message to its members: [...]
Tweet After months of preparation and planning both in public and behind the scenes, the Tutera Group’s proposed Mission Chateau development on the site of Mission Valley Middle School is set to make its way through the Prairie Village Planning Commission and City Council approvals process. The city released the following timeline for the project [...]
Tweet After months of delays on account of a city moratorium on special use permit applications, weather and postponements from the developer, the Prairie Village Planning Commission on Tuesday got its first good look at the Tutera Group’s plans for an extensive senior living community proposed for the Mission Valley Middle School site. More than [...]
Tweet Looks like the Tutera Group’s revised plans for a proposed senior living development on the grounds of Mission Valley Middle School are set to go before the Prairie Village Planning Commission at last. The city announced today that it has set a open Planning Commission work session on the proposal, though the session won’t [...]
Tweet The plans have changed. But neighborhood reaction is about the same. Mission Valley-area residents got their first look at the Tutera Group’s revised proposal for a senior living community on the shuttered school’s grounds during a community meeting Tuesday. Based on input from previous community meetings, Tutera has reconfigured the proposed facility’s footprint to [...]
Tweet We’ve got two updates to pass along regarding the Mission Valley-site senior living community proposal: The community meeting originally scheduled for the week of Feb. 18 and then rescheduled for this past Wednesday has again (and, hopefully, finally) been rescheduled for next Tuesday, March 5. It will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the SM [...]
Tweet Mother Nature really wants to build the suspense for the unveiling of revised plans for Mission Valley… The meeting on the proposed senior living community on the Mission Valley site that had been planned for tonight at Indian Hills Middle School has again been postponed on account of the weather. The meeting had initially [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents will have to wait a bit longer to get a look at the Tutera Group’s revised plans for a senior living community proposed for the Mission Valley Middle School site. In anticipation of the heavy snowfall expected throughout the day tomorrow, the developer has canceled the community meeting scheduled for Thursday, [...]
Tweet Nearly a month after it last presented plans for the redevelopment of Mission Valley Middle School to neighborhood homeowners, the site’s owners are prepared to unveil a tweaked design intended to address some of the more common concerns expressed by the public. The Tutera Group will be holding a city-wide meeting to present its [...]
Tweet We figured it might be of interest to those of you who haven’t attended a community meeting on the proposed Mission Chateau senior living community on the site of Mission Valley middle school to see the Tutera Group’s Frequently Asked Questions document about the project:
Tweet Destruction of green space. Lack of fit with the surrounding neighborhoods. Oversaturation in the market. Deleterious impact on home values. These were among the concerns expressed Thursday at a citywide meeting on the Tutera Group’s proposal to build a $50 million, 376-unit senior living community on the site of Mission Valley Middle School in [...]
Tweet Prairie Villagers: You now have the right to protest. With a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Prairie Village City Council approved a new ordinance that gives people who live near the site of proposed developments requiring Special Use Permits the right to formally file protest petitions. Under the new law, if property owners representing 20 [...]
Tweet A method of filing a protest petition against special use permits in Prairie Village won the unanimous endorsement of the planning commission Tuesday and will head to the city council for final ratification. The protest petition capability is being backed by opponents of a planned redevelopment of the former Mission Valley Middle School property [...]
Tweet Organizers of the Mission Valley Neighbors Association are urging members to show up en masse at the Jan. 8 planning commission meeting to show support for a proposal that would allow the group — and any neighborhood potentially affected by a development project — to file a formal protest. The following message went out via email [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Planning Commission on Tuesday gave the green light to a process that could establish a formal procedure for protesting certain development projects in the city — and may ultimately impact the development of the Mission Valley site. In response to calls from homeowners who live in the neighborhoods surrounding Mission Valley, the [...]
Tweet The neighborhood group that exerted significant influence the spring over zoning decisions for the Mission Valley site is organizing itself again. Mission Valley Neighbors Association leader Bob Schubert sent a message to group members this week urging them to attend a series of upcoming Prairie Village city council and planning commission meetings. The [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday placed a temporary moratorium on all Special Use Permit applications in the city — a move that may at least temporarily hamper developers’ plans for the Mission Valley Middle School site. More than a dozen homeowners from the Mission Valley area filled the Council Chambers Monday as both [...]
Tweet From the sound of it, Mission Valley’s owners may have had a change of heart about building new retail space on the site of the shuttered middle school. Prairie Village assistant city administrator Dennis Enslinger told the city council Monday that he, mayor Ron Shaffer and city administrator Quinn Bennion met with Joe Tutera [...]
Tweet Keep it R-1A, said the neighbors. Okay, said the commissioners. With a unanimous vote on Tuesday before a full house at Friendship Hall in Village Presbyterian Church, the Prairie Village Planning Commission approved a resolution officially establishing R-1A zoning uses — which include housing, schools and churches — as the city’s preference for the [...]
Tweet Since the group started organizing in January, the Mission Valley Neighbors Association has held considerable sway over Prairie Village civic affairs. The group successfully lobbied to kill a proposed comprehensive planning process for the site that would have cost $80,000-$90,000. They also worked to elect new City Council members — helping bring about the largest [...]
Tweet MVS, LLC partner Dan Lowe’s denial of responsibility for a proposal calling for 400,000-plus square feet of mixed use development to be built on the Mission Valley Middle School site has prompted a lengthy response from Prairie Village city administrators. In an article that ran in the Kansas City Star’s 913 section Wednesday, reporter [...]
Tweet Before a crowd of more than 225 packed into the SM East cafeteria, Prairie Village Mayor Ron Shaffer on Monday broke a tie vote to approve a measure affirming city support for the current land uses allowed by the Mission Valley Middle School site’s R-1a zoning — a designation that allows housing, a school, [...]
