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Lenexa Community Development reports near‑record $490 million permitting valuation in 2024, robust pipelines
Summary
Community Development Director Scott McCullough told the council that 2024 permitted valuation approached $490 million (the second highest in city history), with near‑record residential valuation and active project pipelines across Lenexa, including increased building‑center activity in western parts of the city.
Scott McCullough, director of Community Development, presented the department's 2024 annual report to the Lenexa City Council, reporting that total permitted valuation for the year approached $490 million — the second‑highest in the city's history — and that residential valuation was nearly $250 million.
McCullough highlighted permitting and inspection workloads: 219 single‑family permits, 64 duplex units and 274 multifamily units were permitted in 2024. He showed maps indicating most single‑family permits were in western Lenexa and said the development pipeline on January 1 provided a reasonable predictor of year‑end outcomes.
"Total valuation for the year that were permitted approached $490,000,000 ... this represented ... the second highest in the history of Lenexa," McCullough said. He noted that the year's activity included significant projects in the city center, with multiple cranes visible on the skyline and several large permitted projects under active inspection.
McCullough said the planning division processed 127 applications and that the planning commission considered 70 items. He also noted the department collected just over $3 million in revenue from licenses and permits and that the engineering and traffic divisions completed multiple infrastructure projects and installed 167 new street lights and over 920 smart streetlight nodes.
Nick Arena, municipal services director, described the streetlight nodes as small devices attached to fixtures that allow staff to monitor outages and detect theft of wiring. "Those are the nodes ... They allow community development staff and our staff to really monitor when they go out, but also if the lines have been cut or the lines been stolen," Arena said.
Councilmembers asked about specific projects and timelines. On Timber Rock Senior Living, McCullough said a permit was issued in late 2024 and some groundwork and mobilization had occurred but that active construction was limited during a slow winter.
The presentation was informational; no council action was required. McCullough concluded by thanking other city departments for their support in delivering permitting, inspections and engineering work.
