Kansas City Star Column: Lenexa Should 'Celebrate' Upcoming Homeless Shelter

This weekend the Kansas City Star platforms a sketchy premise with a tacit threat of a legal battle if local activists don't get their way.

Here's more promotion by way of dead-tree media . . .

"The planned facility would not go in anyone’s backyard. Instead, reStart would convert and renovate a run-down hotel, the La Quinta Inn off Interstate 35 and 95th Street. The area, already zoned for a shelter, borders an industrial park, big-box retailers, restaurants and other businesses. An abandoned restaurant building on the lot would provide storage and future office space for the shelter.

"Lenexa should celebrate. Yet city planners want to fight the project instead. They recommended denial of a special use permit at a public hearing in August. The matter now goes to City Council on Sept. 17."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Lenexa homeless shelter wouldn't go in anyone's backyard. It's a path to stability | Opinion

We should celebrate finding a good use for an empty hotel at I-35 and 95th Street.