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UPDATE - The Revised South Park Sub-Area Plan prepared by 180 Degrees is now online! The Revised May 23, 2007 South Park Sub-Area Plan is available for review on line, at the Community Development Department (City Hall 9000 W 62nd Terrace), or at the Antioch Public Library (8700Shawnee Mission Parkway). Click on the links below to view the final report prepared by 180 Degrees Design Studio. These documents are in PDF format, so Adobe Acrobat Reader is required (download it free at adobe.com).
The Merriam Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to discuss the May 23, 2007 draft plan on June 6, 2007 at Merriam City Hall and the City Council will consider the Plan on June 25, 2007.
1. Cover
2. Executive Summary
3. Base Analysis
4. Precedent Analysis
5. South Park Neighborhood
6. Transportation
7. Redevelopment Options
8. Elevation Options
City Hosts Design Charrette to Help Plan for the future of the South Park School and Neighborhood - In May 2007, South Park School will close its doors after serving students in the neighborhood since 1947. In an effort to understand what the community would like to see happen to the school building and surrounding site, the City hosted a public planning process called a “charrette” on March 7th -10th. The charrette process is a condensed public planning process intended to involve the community in planning and designing the future of a particular site.
During the charrette, the City and 180 Degrees Design Studio hosted three public meetings and met with several stakeholder groups to talk about the future of the site. In addition, they set up a temporary studio in the basement of the Community Center to work on the ideas generated about the South Park site and surrounding neighborhood. This allowed members of the public that could not attend the evening meetings to drop by at any time and provide feedback on the designs and concepts.
The design team used their creative abilities to draw 2- and 3-dimensional representations of various ideas generated during the public meetings and meetings with stakeholders. In addition, the charrette team included an engineer and financial analyst to look at the traffic concerns and financial feasibility of different options explored.
One of the benefits of the charrette process is the use of drawings to illustrate to the public ideas/concepts for redevelopment of the school site. Many of the ideas from the charrette have a common theme. Participants expressed a strong desire to keep some portion of the existing South Park School. Therefore, all of the options included leaving at least some portion of the South Park School and incorporating new uses such as additional office, commercial and residential. Overall, the concepts divide the site into a residential component on the west end of the site (single-family detached house, single-family attached row homes and townhomes, bungalows, etc.) and an office/commercial component (either reusing all or portion of the existing school) on the east end of the site.
For additional information not found on this site, call Merriam's Community Development Department at (913) 322.5520 or e-mail bdyer@merriam.org.
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