A daycare with outdoor playgrounds can come to a southern Overland Park office development.
On Monday, the Overland Park City Council voted 11-0 to approve a revised preliminary plan for the Veritas Office Center off Metcalf Avenue and 151st Terrace, making it possible to include the daycare’s planned outdoor playground areas.
The item was listed on the city council’s planning consent agenda, which means it wasn’t individually discussed before it was voted on alongside a series of other procedural items from the Overland Park Planning Commission.
Councilmember Chris Newlin was absent from the meeting.
The intended daycare tenant is unclear
- City documents do not specify what the name of the daycare will be, nor does it detail how many children and what age group could be cared for in the facility.
- That being said, design documents for the project do show that the daycare building will be 12,000 square feet and just one story, located on the west side of the property.
- Additionally, the outdoor playgrounds are expected to face Marty Street.
Looking back on the Veritas office development
- The site was rezoned in 2007 to allow the Veritas Office Center, according to city documents.
- At the time, three office buildings were proposed for a total of about 45,000 square feet.
- That same year, a final development plan was submitted and, eventually, a two-story, 20,000-square-foot office building was built at 15280 Metcalf Ave.
- Before the property was rezoned, it had a hodgepodge of zoning classifications including carryover county rural zonings as well as some residential designations.
- Nearby, there is a Price Chopper, some retail, a subdivision and Overland Park’s Brittany Park.
Planning commission was also supportive of daycare
- Last month, the revised preliminary plan passed through the Overland Park Planning Commission easily, with a vote of 9-0.
- Multiple commissioners noted that they viewed it as positive, with Commissioner Matt Masilionis saying he was happy to see the office center developing.
- Commissioner Jameia Haines indicated her support for the project as well, adding that childcare is “certainly” a need in the community.
Next steps:
- A final site plan for the daycare center must come through the city’s planning process before development can proceed.
- Additionally, a future two-story, 15,000-square-foot building is still pondered, per the submitted site plan.
- That will also require individual site plan approval.
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