I’ll start by saying that if you don’t have a subscription to Shawnee Mission Post for hyper local news reporting, I highly recommend it!

Here’s the link to their latest article, and please read it there if you have an account: Shawnee Mission Post.

Now, having said the above, if you don’t have an account, here is a snippet:

The Prairie Village Planning Commission on Tuesday evening finalized a year-long timeline for the public to give feedback on a series of housing recommendations that have already garnered heated pushback from some residents.

Driving the news: The planning commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a general timeline that will include at least three public forums about the housing recommendations over the next year.

• Several planning commissioners on Tuesday night, including Nancy Wallerstein, voiced concerns about a timeline originally proposed by city staff that would have conducted the public feedback process over a more compressed timeframe, between October and February.

•Wallerstein called that “too aggressive” and like other commissioners called for more public forums to occur after the new year.

What was said: “We’ve had two years of no one going out, going to Christmas parties and everything like this — anything from mid-November through the first week of January, I think, is just a lost cause,” Wallerstein said.

Juliana Garcia, SM Post

Watch for yourself: A full video of the planning commission meeting can be found below. The housing recommendations presentation and subsequent discussion begins around 58:00.

What happens next with Prairie Village housing recommendations:

The planning commission will discuss the recommendations at a work session at the end of October. The next discussion on the city’s housing recommendations won’t occur until after the new year, in January 2023, and it will be a public forum.

• Another planning commission work session will occur after the first public forum.

• A second public forum to discuss the planning commission’s recommendations and take public feedback will be in March or April 2023.

• There will be another planning commission work session after that second public forum.

• A third public forum will then be held in June or July.

• City staff told commissioners that the public forums would include presentations, breakout sessions and group discussions.

Juliana Garcia, SM Post

I will say, the original heading of the SM Post article may have been misleading. I think they even changed it, but if you have seen it PV has not “put off housing discussion until 2023”. The Planning Commission has suggested a schedule (outlined above) that puts the first public forum into 2023. The Planning Commission themselves will still begin their work sessions on the issues.

More to come!

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