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Residents report large turnout at Old City Hall event, hand petition to clerk seeking reuse and preservation
Summary
Residents Jacqueline and Andy Penn told the Leawood City Council that about 400 people attended a May 10 outreach event supporting reuse of Old City Hall and the adjacent fire station, and they delivered roughly 500 petition signatures asking the city to consider purchase and reuse as a community space.
Jacqueline Penn and her husband, Andy Penn, told the Leawood City Council that a May 10 community event testing a vision for the Old City Hall and adjacent former fire station drew roughly 400 attendees and produced about 500 petition signatures in favor of preserving and reusing the buildings.
At the start of the meeting Jacqueline Penn said she and her husband filed for a special permit to use Old City Hall for the May 10 event to share a plan they have presented previously: preserve the two buildings and convert one to a coffee or ice cream shop and the other into a small community center with an adjoining park. "We had approximately 400 people that came from the hours of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.," she said, and…
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