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Tweet If you are looking for a bicycle trail or walking path in the metro, a new map produced by the Mid-America Regional Council will help you find it – on your smartphone if you like. But Northeast Johnson County is not home to a concentration of trails and to none of the long trails [...]
Tweet Roe Avenue will remain the named route for a possible Prairie Village trail — though discussion from the City Council Monday seemed to place the future of a comprehensive trails system in the city on very shaky ground. With a 10-0 vote, the council accepted the recommendation of the Planning Commission to keep Roe as [...]
Tweet Construction crews in Fairway are at work putting in a new section of sidewalk from the west side of the 5600 block of Mission Road south to the city limit at 63rd Street — and it serves as an interesting point of reference in the ongoing trails debate in Prairie Village. At five feet, [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Tuesday effectively squelched the possibility that an eight-foot-wide section of concrete trail would be built along Somerset Drive from Franklin Park to Nall Avenue — a move that raises doubt about the viability of the entire trails system proposed in the city’s Parks Master Plan. By a vote of [...]
Tweet After an extensive public hearing on the issue Tuesday, the Prairie Village Planning Commission had a message for the Nall Avenue homeowners who have been protesting a proposal that would have named Nall the preferred route for a future concrete trail: We heard you loud and clear. The commission voted unanimously to reject the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Hall may end up being a lively place on Election Night – but not because of voting in the city council races. The city today put nearly 800 letters in the mail informing residents in the Nall Avenue and Roe Avenue neighborhoods of a public hearing at the April 3 Planning Commission [...]
Tweet Recent proposed projects related to the Prairie Village trails system have caused quite a stir among residents. Protests from neighbors who hadn’t been included in the development of a plan to install the trail that included a chain link fence along Tomahawk Road ultimately led the council to approve replacing the fence with a [...]
Tweet Eric Rogers of Bike Walk KC, an advocacy group promoting an “accessible outdoor experience” for the metro region, says his organization sees Prairie Village as a key component to building a metro-wide trails system. “Prairie Village fits in very well to a regional plan,” he said. “It’s a pretty easy ride to the Plaza, [...]
