Archives for “Parks”
TweetAn agenda item that read as a simple call for clarification about the Prairie Village City Council’s support for a series of walking and biking trails devolved into a nightmarish bureaucratic squabble that seemed leave city staff, council members and residents frustrated Monday. City Administrator Quinn Bennion and Assistant City Administrator Dennis Enslinger addressed the [...]
TweetThe Prairie Village City Council tonight will discuss whether to support in principle a change to the city’s Parks Master Plan that would shift a proposed bike and walking trail from Roe Avenue west to Nall Avenue. At a Planning Commission meeting earlier this month, city consultant Ron Williamson presented a report noting that the [...]
Tweet Seven of Prairie Village’s 14 parks are named after former mayors — so a proposal to rechristen Meadowlake Park in honor of former mayor Monroe “Roe” Taliaferro may not seem controversial on its face. But its timing in the lead up to a contested election has at least one resident crying foul. Parks and [...]
TweetAt the their meeting next Monday, Feb. 6, members of the Prairie Village City Council are likely to take up of the issue of what — if anything — to do about the controversial fence installed along the new asphalt path from Porter Park to 71st Street along Tomahawk Road. The council should hear back [...]
Tweet Crews have made swift work of the behemoth water tower that stood over McCrum Park. Since they began dismantling it Friday, they’ve managed to take down the entirety of the water tank itself, and have nearly desconstructed the support braces and legs. As of 5 p.m. Monday, all that remained was the bottom half [...]
Tweet With the help of a gigantic crane on Friday, workers deconstructed the water tower that has stood high above McCrum Park for more than a half century. For the past few days, crews had used blowtorches to score lines along the tank’s exterior. On Friday, they hooked the tank panels to the crane as [...]
Tweet More than 60 years after it went up, the McCrum Park water tower in Prairie Village is on its way down. Crews have begun dismantling the tower, cutting two circular access holes in its north and south sides. On Tuesday, they began scoring the tank with blowtorches, preparing it to be broken down into [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s Public Works staff had all but closed the books on the fence and trail installation project along Brush Creek from Porter Park to 71st Street. Now, they’re going back to the drawing board. The City Council directed Public Works staff to develop a variety of options for removing the current fence and [...]
Tweet Weather permitting, the removal of the decommissioned water tower at McCrum Park in Prairie Village could begin as early as this week, Prairie Village Public Works Director Bruce McNabb has told the Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Committee. WaterOne, Johnson County’s water utility, has sold the tank to a company that will reuse it [...]
Tweet Looks like the group working to bring community garden plots to Prairie Village had a pretty good feel for the market. The plots at Harmon Park and Cherokee Christian Church all sold out within just a few days of opening up for reservations. The plots are set to open up Apr. 2 with a [...]
TweetTen Prairie Village homeowners with property near the new Brush Creek fence presented a unified front at the Parks and Recreation Committee meeting Wednesday night, with representatives telling the committee they were upset and disappointed with the way the project had been carried out. “We felt blindsided,” said Marianne Noll, who lives with her husband [...]
TweetPrairie Village Parks and Recreation Chair Diana Ewy Sharp said Wednesday she was aware on Oct. 3, 2011, that the material for a proposed fence along Brush Creek had changed from previous plans put before the City Council — and that her peers should have known as well. Ewy Sharp rejected suggestions that, as chair [...]
Tweet We figured it was probably worth putting this up now, while the weather is still nice enough that you could actually envision yourself playing baseball or soccer in it. The city of Prairie Village is reminding coaches to put in their reservations now for field time this spring: The City of Prairie Village allows [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council members whose ward includes the nearly 20 houses along Tomahawk Road that now look out over a brand new black chain link fence lining Brush Creek say they will recommend that the fence be removed. Ruth Hopkins and Steve Noll of Ward 2 say the negative feedback they’ve received [...]
TweetConstruction crews over the weekend finished installation of a black chain link fence by the new trail between Porter Park and 71st Street along Tomahawk Road — but negative feedback from a number of residents who live near the trail is prompting some to look into how precisely the material for the fence was selected. Marianne [...]
Tweet The fence being built along the new Brush Creek trail from Porter Park to 71st Street appears to have ruffled the feathers of some of the Prairie Village residents who live in its immediate vicinity. Late last week, someone (we’re still trying to track down who — shoot us an email if you know) planted [...]
Tweet A reader sent us a question about the new eight-foot paved trail along Brush Creek on Tomahawk Road from Porter Park to 71st Street that we’re guessing several Villagers are wondering about: “Do you know why the sidewalk does not continue one block more so it would be a perfect stroll from the park [...]
Tweet It appears it will be a few months before the Prairie Village city council decides whether to go to voters with a proposition on raising the city’s sales tax by .5 percent to raise approximately $1 million a year to fund parks improvements and maintenance. But we’re interested in your initial reactions to the [...]
TweetThe Prairie Village city council on Monday voted to postpone a decision on whether to ask citizens whether they’d support a .5 percent sales tax increase to fund parks improvements and maintenance. After the last council meeting, city staff drafted sample language for a ballot measure to put the sales tax increase before Prairie Village [...]
TweetThe McCrum Park water tower removal that had initially been targeted to start this fall is now set to begin the the second week of January. Hanley Barker, facilities engineering manager for WaterOne (Johnson County’s water utility), said it will take three weeks to remove the tower itself. Crews will then spend February and March [...]
TweetA longstanding agreement between the city of Prairie Village and St. Ann Church and School came to an end last night when the city council voted to stop maintaining the sports fields adjacent to Windsor Park. The city had maintained the soccer and baseball fields east of the school since 1996 as part of an [...]
Tweet Renovations at Weltner Park near the State Line Shopping Center are nearing completion, with new playground equipment installed – and in use. The $335,000 renovation began in late August in conjunction with a road project that rerouted Cambridge Street, eliminating an under-used island of park land. In addition to expanding the park’s footprint, the [...]
TweetSpeaking of walking paths… You’re likely to see construction crews working along Tomahawk Road between Porter Park and the Village Shops in the coming weeks as they install a new eight-foot wide paved trail. Similar trails were installed between Corinth Square and Franklin Park earlier this year. The trails are part of Prairie Village’s parks [...]
Tweet So, technically this is out of our bailiwick, but we’ve got enough creative mavens amongst our readership that I figured I’d pass it along. Roeland Park is holding a contest to name a new five-acre park between Sherwood and Juniper Streets south of 55th Street on the site of the former Roeland Park Elementary [...]
TweetPrairie Village officials broke ground Wednesday night on the renovation of Weltner Park, a $315,000 project that will bring an extensive playground to a space that previously only featured a basketball and volleyball court. The improvements are part of the upgrades suggested by Prairie Village’s Parks Master Plan, adopted by the City Council in 2009. [...]
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