Haysville planning commission recommends duplex zoning for Sunnyside lot after public opposition to multifamily change

The Haysville Planning Commission voted to recommend rezoning a vacant lot at 6401 South Sunnyside from SF (single-family) to TF (two-family/duplex) with a protective overlay and access-control conditions after a public hearing on a proposed MF-4 (multifamily) designation. The commission's recommendation will go to the Haysville City Council for final action.

The action followed a staff presentation that described the roughly half-acre parcel at the corner of 60 Third and South Sunnyside as platted in 1951, annexed by the city, currently undeveloped, and served by city water and sewer. The staff report said the property is designated residential on the land use map and that adjacent parcels are a mix of rural residential, single-family, and, to the southeast, heavy commercial. Staff noted the lot has access only to South Sunnyside, a paved one-way local street that the public works director later described as about 15 feet wide, with insufficient right-of-way to widen without acquisition.

The applicant's agent, Josh White of Kenny…