Proposed landfill in south Kansas City a concern for businesses, residents, schools and cities

KANSAS CITY, Mo — The potential for a brand new stable waste landfill in South Kansas Metropolis is elevating issues from cities, faculties, residents and enterprise homeowners within the space.

The deliberate landfill will sit on privately-owned land inside a 960-acre location, with Peterson Street on the west, Horridge Street on the east, Missouri 150 Freeway to the north and a hundred and fifty fifth Road to the south.

“I simply assume it’s short-sighted for Kansas Metropolis to place a landfill in proper right here in an space that’s so stunning that’s loved by many individuals within the metropolitan space,” stated Scott Ward, proprietor of Be Free Household Farm.

Scott and Jennifer Ward purchased their household farm 10 years in the past with the imaginative and prescient to create a novel rural getaway expertise for guests. Since then, they’ve developed 22 and a half acres of land into an authorized agro-tourism facility that provides a venue for weddings, personal events and farm to desk dinners. The enterprise additionally hosts occasions year-round like pumpkin patches and yoga on the farm. Additionally it is house to an on-site allergen-free bakery that outsources to town.

Ward is anxious a brand new proposed landfill close by will jeopardize what they’ve constructed.

“I simply can’t think about individuals coming right here to mediate, do yoga and issues like that and simply have that odor,” Ward stated. “Trigger the winds come predominantly from the Southwest, in order that implies that we’re gonna get the wind blowing that odor proper onto our farm.”

Ward says he is only one voice.

There are lots of entities at stake, together with a state park, Longview Lake, a number of elementary faculties and bordering cities.

“It’s doubtless going to have some sort of degradation on house values, property values in our space,” stated Raymore’s Mayor Kris Turnbow.

Not less than three house gross sales within the Creekmoor Neighborhood fell via since phrase obtained out concerning the landfill. Further enterprise deal even have fallen via.

“It has an impression on all the opposite taxing entities — the college district, the fireplace safety district, the library — that each one rely upon their life blood coming from property taxes,” stated Turnbow.

The governing our bodies of Raymore and Belton, in addition to the Lee’s Summit Faculty District, have handed a decision in opposition.

A decision in opposition to the landfill additionally was proposed by Jackson County legislator Sean Smith, however the county’s Land Use Committee voted Tuesday to carry it till subsequent week’s assembly.

Residents are also inspired to name their state legislators concerning Senate Invoice 590 and Home Invoice 909

The payments, if handed, would give surrounding cities extra say within the landfill determination.

“We’re in a becoming a member of municipality that may sort of dictate inside a half a mile of our border whether or not we approve of the plan for a landfill or not,” Turnbow stated. “Our intent is attempt to widen that to a one-mile barrier and that might one, that might eradicate this land altogether.”

The builders should undergo the Missouri Division of Pure Assets to get a allow. KSHB 41 checked with the company and s they haven’t but acquired a request from the landowners.

“In the event that they put it there, we’re simply gonna must take care of it,” stated Ward.

Raymore will probably be internet hosting a public assembly to debate the proposed landfill at 6 p.m. February sixteenth at Centerview Occasion House, 227 Municipal Circle.