A new Total Access Urgent Care is on track to open soon in southern Overland Park after facing a roadblock related to traffic access to the facility.
Located at 12260 Blue Valley Parkway, near 123rd Street, the urgent care center will be right next to Costco. A jeweler had eyed the building last year for a potential new location.
On Monday, a nearly divided Overland Park Planning Commission advanced the new final plan for the site. The final vote was 6-4.
Previously, the urgent care center planned to use an internal access in the commercial center built in the early 2000s. The planning commission approved that plan in 2021, but the urgent care center has faced pushback from Costco for its plans to create a driveway on property that Costco owns.
Now, the urgent care plans to move the eastern access drive, avoiding Costco property. However, some concerns about traffic flow into the facility linger.
Planning Commissioner Thomas Robinett said he sees this as “the only solution” given the circumstances.
Overland Park Total Access Urgent Care is nearly completed
- Curt Holland, an attorney for the applicant, said the building is about 90% completed.
- However, further construction was delayed by the traffic access issue. Holland told the planning commission on Monday that Costco sent the urgent care center a cease and desist letter.
- An amended traffic plan for the site moves the driveway away from the Costco property.
- “Without this driveway, we wouldn’t have any access into the site, so we would be in real, real trouble if that was the case,” Holland said.
Some planning commissioners worry about traffic solution
- Planning commissioners Jenna Reyes, Rob Krewson, David Hill and Radd Way voted against the new final site plan, all expressing concern about the potential to cause traffic flow problems inside the commercial center.
- Some commissioners were also worried that spillover from this private drive could cause traffic to back up on public streets as well.
- Krewson said he would rather see the original plan, approved in 2021, be used on this property. He said he worries this traffic pattern will lead to a vehicle collision.
- “People that are going to urgent care are urgently trying to get there,” he said, “and they may make some risky decisions and do some silly things. So I’m not in favor of this.”
Looking ahead:
- Some planning commissioners also discussed how potential future development on neighboring parcels in this commercial center could further compound any traffic issues this development might make.
- Holland said there is no “resolution” on how motorists might access that property if the owner developed in the future.
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