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Sedgwick County commissioners defer Harry Crossing PUD after debate over screening wall
Summary
After a public hearing and extensive questioning about permitted uses, setbacks and protest-area calculations, commissioners voted 5-0 to defer the proposed Harry Crossing PUD rezoning for one week so staff and counsel can draft narrower screening/landscaping language.
Sedgwick County commissioners on Feb. 11 deferred a rezoning request for roughly 26 acres at the southeast corner of East Harry Street and 143rd Street East after heated debate over how the site should be screened from nearby homes.
Planning director Scott Wadle told the board the applicant seeks to rezone the property from SF-20 (single-family) to a custom Planned Unit Development, PUD No. 154, to allow a mix of residential and limited commercial uses. Wadle said the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission recommended approval (10-0, one abstention), but staff received protests and written comments opposing the application; 37 protest forms were submitted, four fell inside the counted protest area and constituted roughly 2% of the protest-area acreage — below the 20% threshold that would trigger a supermajority…
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