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Leawood council approves rezoning for Reserve at Iron Horse despite neighborhood objections
Summary
The Leawood City Council voted 6-3 to approve rezoning and preliminary plans for the Reserve at Iron Horse townhome project after residents raised concerns about density, drainage and tree removal.
The Leawood City Council voted 6-3 on July 7 to approve an ordinance rezoning a roughly 3.5-acre parcel at the southeast corner of 150th Street and Mission Road from planned neighborhood commercial retail (SDNCR) to RP-3 (planned cluster attached residential) and to adopt the developer’s preliminary plan and plat for the Reserve at Iron Horse townhomes.
The decision follows renewed public comment from nearby residents who said the project’s 18 units — about a 60% increase in the number of dwellings within the existing Reserve at Iron Horse neighborhood — would change the area’s character and create traffic and drainage problems. Council members who supported the measure said the plan met the RP-3 standards and represented an appropriate redevelopment of a constrained parcel.
Residents asked the council to reconsider an earlier override of the planning commission’s denial and…
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