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Bonner Springs — Bonner Springs residents will be able next week to get a glimpse of the future. A public meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 20 in the Bonner Springs High school cafeteria will offer residents a chance to learn about the Kansas Highway 7 and Interstate 70 interchange study, which will include a video simulation of the projected traffic flow in the year 2030.

The study looks at the projected traffic model and highway construction for the K-7 span between 130th Street and Kansas Avenue.

At their study session before the regular meeting Monday, City Council members heard a presentation by Tim Roth of George Butler and Associates, who conducted the study for the Kansas Department of Transportation.

The concept has been "modified slightly from the K-7 corridor study," said Kim Qualls, spokeswoman for the transportation department. "The big, integral part is seeing how the whole interchange works in conjunction with 130th and Kansas Avenue."

The interchange study is one of three such studies that have grown out of the Kansas Highway 7 Corridor Management Study, which was completed in May 2006.

The management study looked at the K-7 corridor from Miami County to Leavenworth County.

Roth told the Council in its study session before the regular meeting Monday that the "three interchanges (at Kansas Avenue, 130th Street and I-70) are treated together because they don't operate separately."

Roth showed a video simulation of what traffic would look like once the project is completed. The change that provoked the most questions from Council members was the planned lack of direct access from K-7 to Canaan Center, to be replaced by a loop road.

Projected traffic patterns require the change, Roth said.

Other changes include an additional lane in each direction on K-7, and collector roads at Kansas Avenue and at 130th Street.

There is no scheduled start date for any of the highway construction to begin, Quall said, as no funding has been allocated for the project. Surveying for the project is scheduled to begin in the next few months.

The City Council on Monday also:

¢ Discussed at the study session before the regular meeting the supplemental design agreement with Wilson & Company for design work related to the Wolf Creek Sewer Project and the Front Street Improvement Project. See X, Page X.

¢ Approved claims for city operations for $201,164.

¢ Approved public housing authority claims for $1,047.

¢ Approved the appointment of Mary Whitney to the Cemetery Advisory Committee and Laurie Welty to the Convention and Tourism Committee. Whitney fills the expired term of Janice Creason, and her term will expire January 2011. Welty will take the seat of Dale Krumm, and her term will expire July 2011.

¢ Approved the change of the Oct. 13 Council meeting date to Oct. 14.

¢ Accepted the bid of Country Club Bank for the purchase of $1,680,000 in bonds ffor the Lake of the Forest Water Main Benefit District. Country Club was one of three bidders and offered the lowest interest rate for the bonds, at 4.035 percent.

¢ Approved the final plat for Cedar Ridge II, north of Kansas Avenue and 132nd Terrace.

¢ Approved a special-use permit for Rams Trucking & Ready Mix to operate an existing concrete ready-mix facility in Bonner Springs Industrial Park East that had closed in November 2006. The facility's use is projected to last for six to eight months while Rams builds a new plant in Olathe.

¢ Approved new floodplain management regulations. The new regulations, which were written by the planning department, were necessary, City Planner Don Slone said, in order to bring them up to date with the National Flood Insurance Program as well as with Kansas law, plus incorporate the Loring Service Area into the city's floodplain management authority. The change makes homes in the Loring area eligible for flood insurance.

¢ Approved an ordinance that approved stop-sign and traffic-signal locations in the city.

The ordinance was for the purpose of cleaning up the existing ordinance, City Managger John Helin said, and add the locations at Quik Trip and at Tiblow Townhomes.

The Police Department reviewed all stop signs, Helin said, and said the signs were in the proper locations.

¢ Approved an amendment to cemetery regulations governing markers and monuments. The change restricts markers at the foot of a grave only for Veterans Administration-appproved military stones placed flush with the ground, and urns for cremated remains measuring no more than 24 by 18 inches and flush with the ground.

¢ Heard Helin's City Manager report. Helin said due to a recent change in ownership of Deffenbaugh Industries the planned start of recycling through a contract with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County will not begin this spring as previously planned.

The beginning date of demolition of Sacred Heart School for the city's new library is set for Friday.

¢ Heard Mayor Clausie Smith's report, which included his take on Friday's Regional Mayors Summit on Light Rail. See X, Page X.

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