As of Wednesday, January 8, thoroughfares and neighborhood streets are plowed. The City’s contractors are working to complete cul-de-sacs. Please know there is a layer of ice under the snow and neighborhood streets may be snow-packed. Our salt and magnesium chloride mixture is limited in its ability to melt ice when temperatures are extremely low. […]
Overland Park is taking ideas from the community to name the new Farmers’ Market and Downtown Gathering Space Improvements project. The City will begin construction on the new facility in December. When the project is complete, the space will house the Overland Park Farmers’ Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays during market season. The project will […]
The City of Overland Park would like your feedback on how it plans to allocate approximately $700,000 in federal funding. Overland Park expects to receive about $700,000 in funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The City will use the funding to meet the needs of low- and moderate-income residents. CDBG funding can […]
Overland Park’s 2025 Budget continues to work toward improving City infrastructure and implementing Overland Park’s strategic goals while balancing the possibility of a cooling economy. The Overland Park City Council approved the budget at its meeting last night. The budget is $467.8 million, an 8.6% increase over the 2024 Budget. However, the City’s property tax […]
The City of Overland Park is proud to announce the hire of Doreen Jokerst as the city’s next Chief of Police. Jokerst comes to Overland Park from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she served for six years as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Public Safety and Chief of Police, guiding her department to become […]
Bluejacket Pool will permanently close on August 6, at the end of the 2024 outdoor pool season. The pool has reached the end of its useful life, as outlined in the Overland Park Parks and Recreation Master Plan. The 51-year-old pool has had significant water loss in recent years due to leaks, resulting in substantial […]
The City of Overland Park Governing Body approved a plan to move forward with an improvement project for the Overland Park Farmers’ Market. The updated plan: Creates an indoor market space Improves the existing outdoor market space with shade structures and a gentler, more accessible ground slope Adds access to utilities like power and water […]
Overland Park’s proposed 2025 Budget continues to work toward improving City infrastructure and implementing Overland Park’s strategic goals while balancing the possibility of a cooling economy. City Manager Lori Curtis Luther presented the proposed budget to Mayor Curt Skoog and the Overland Park City Council at the June 3 Committee of the Whole meeting. The […]
The Overland Park City Council adopted FrameworkOP, the City’s new comprehensive plan, at its meeting May 6. The process to update FrameworkOP started in 2022 with a community kickoff event. Throughout the planning process, more than 2,000 Overland Park residents, business owners, visitors and others were involved, sharing their hopes for the community’s future. “Not […]
Overland Park is again near the top of a list of “Best Places to Live in the U.S.” Research organization Livability.com named Overland Park the seventh best place to live in the country. Livability has created a list of the best places to live in America for more than a decade. The organization considers a […]