wasa task force Future meeting schedulE

Current Meeting Agenda
Meetings Recap
Ground Rules

This 17-member advisory task force will meet at least once a month for approximately one year, beginning in October 2008.

Their task: to help develop a future land use plan and set of land use goals for 8.35 square miles annexed into the city from western Aubry Township in March 2008.

Here is a list of upcoming meetings, including topics of discussion:

WASA Task Force Meeting No. 4 ~ Jan. 28, 2009 

Review of Public Safety

• Review and discuss public safety services and future service expansion.

  • Overland Park Police Department
    • Existing services
    • Future service expansion
    • Guest speaker – TBA
      
      
• Overland Park Fire Department
  • Existing services
  • Future service expansion
  • Guest speaker – Mark Sweeney, inspection supervisor, Overland Park Fire Department
    
    
• Rural Fire District No. 2
  • Existing services
  • Future service expansion
  • Guest speaker – TBA
    
    
• Review and discuss other governmental facilities and services and future plans
  
  
  • Other city facilities and services and future plans
  • Other Johnson County facilities and services

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WASA Task Force Meeting No. 5 ~ Feb. 25

Review of Current Land Use Regulations

• Review and discuss the regulation of land use in the study area including:
  
  
  • Overland Park Unified Development Ordinance (UDO)
    • Floodplain ordinance
    • Streamway corridor ordinance
    • Best Management Practices (BMP)
      
      
  • Overland Park Unified Development Ordinance (UDO)
    • Zoning districts
    • Subdivision ordinance
      
      
  • Johnson County Unified Development Ordinance (existing zoning only). Current agreement on acceptance of existing zoning
    
    
  • Other regulation tools and costs for land development
    • Excise tax
      
    • Dedication of r-o-w
      
    • Development exactions
      
    • Land Use Intensity System (LUI)
      
    • Design Guidelines and Standards
    • Guest speaker – TBA
      
      
  • Overland Park Comprehensive Plan (Master Plan)
    • Future Development Plan
      
    • Greenway Linkages Plan
      
    • Land Use Goals
      
    • Official Street Map
    • Guest speaker – John Rod, administrator, Long-Range Planning Division, Planning and Development Services Department, City of Overland Park

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WASA Task Force Meeting No. 6 ~ March 25

Work Session No. 1

• Review work session process and reference materials
  
  
  • Blue Valley Plan
    
  • Current land uses
    
  • Natural features and site analysis of the study area (including topographic and slope analysis, floodplain and drainage, forestation and vegetation)
    
  • Current zoning
    
    
• Brainstorm ideas for future land uses considering:
  
  
  • Natural features
    • Floodplains
      
    • Streamway corridors
      
    • Significant slope areas
      
    • Forested areas
      
    • Important views (view sheds)
  • Streets, roads and bridges
    
  • Utility service areas and plans
    
  • Existing land use
    
  • Existing zoning
    
  • Master Plan Land Use Goals - locational criteria for various land uses
    
  • Previous future land use plans
    
  • Key land use issues
    
    
• Identify general concepts for land use goals for the study area
• Identify general concepts for future land uses for the study area

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WASA Task Force Meeting No. 7 ~ April 22

Work Session No. 2

• Refine general concepts for land use goals for the study area
• Refine general concepts for future land uses for the study area

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WASA Task Force Meeting No. 8 ~ May 27

Work Session No. 3

• Refine general concepts for land use goals for the study area
• Refine general concepts for future land uses for the study area

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WASA Task Force Meeting No. 9 ~ June 2009

Work Session No. 4

• Refine general concepts for land use goals for the study area
• Refine general concepts for future land uses for the study area

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WASA Task Force Meeting No. 10 ~ July 2009

Approval of Initial Draft Future Land Use Plan

• Finalize recommendations for the study area
• Finalize recommendations for collector street locations
• Finalize recommendations for proposed parks and greenway linkages in the study area
• Approve (initial draft) West Aubry Study Area (WASA) Future Land Use Plan and Land Use Goals

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Second Public Informational Meeting ~ July/August 2009

• Hold an informational forum with landowners to solicit comments about the draft future land use plan for the West Aubry Study Area (WASA)

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WASA Task Force Wrap-Up Meeting ~ August/September 2009

Finalize WASA Task Force Recommendations

• Discuss comments received at the informational meeting and review and approve/deny landowner requests for changes (draft) Task Force Recommendations
• Review the West Aubry Study Area (WASA) Future Land Use Plan and Land Use Goals
• Approve the Future Land Use Plan and Land Use Goals for presentation to the City at a joint meeting with the WASA Task Force, the Overland Park City Council, and Overland Park Planning Commission

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Joint Dinner Meeting with City Leaders ~ September/October 2009

Joint Dinner Meeting to Review WASA Task Force Recommendations

• Presentation of the West Aubry Study Area (WASA) Task Force recommendations at a joint dinner meeting of the WASA Task Force with the Overland Park Mayor, Overland Park City Council, and Overland Park Planning Commission

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2009 Master Plan Review Process ~ October/December 2009

• Consideration of the West Aubry Study Area (WASA) Task Force recommendations as amendments to the city’s 2009 Master Plan.

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For more information, contact John Rod, manager of Community Planning and Services, at 913/895-6214, or any of the staff support committee members.