The next phases of plans for southern Leawood’s much-discussed East Village development will face final review Monday night.
The Leawood City Council at its regular meeting will review and potentially approve plans for the third and fourth phases of the project just west of State Line Road.
The next phases entail public amenities like a park, as well as a retail component and hundreds of apartment units.
The next phases will bring a new park and amphitheater
- As part of these next phases, Lenexa-based Oddo Development has proposed a new 1.76-acre park for the southeast corner of 133rd Street and Pawnee Lane — in addition to an amphitheater, dog park and community garden.
- Developers are planning roughly 4,300 square feet in retail, restaurant and office space, in addition to relocating the community pool to the roof of an apartment building’s parking garage in order to leave room for more green space.
- During these phases, the company will ultimately build 36 brownstone homes, 327 apartment units across four separate buildings, 9,000 square feet of office space and more than 14,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.
The first phases gained approval earlier this year
- Developers plan to begin utility and street work at the East Village site this fall.
- The first phases of the 116-acre project gained approval in March, following three years of back and forth between the city, developers and concerned neighboring residents.
- As part of those phases, the company will build 26 single-family homes and 12 twin villas, or duplexes, as well as traffic entrances off Pawnee Lane and High Drive.
The city will also implement traffic calming measures at the site
- Earlier this month, the Leawood City Council approved the purchase and installation of speed tables to calm traffic near the project site.
- As part of this approval, Oddo Development agreed to pay $100,000 toward those traffic calming measures.
- The decision followed three years of opposition from neighboring residents over not just potential traffic impacts, but the look and size of the buildings.
- The entire development will take roughly 10 years to build, but developers estimate residents will be able to start purchasing lots there in 2024 or 2025.
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