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Civic issues
Topics getting the most attention in Olathe public meetings, ranked by how frequently they come up.
Santa Fe Street reconstruction (Ridgeview to Mur-Len)
The council reviewed the look and feel of the new I-35/Santa Fe single-point urban interchange — decorative truss, wave fencing, brick medians, heavy landscaping, and lighting. Councilmembers pushed for more pedestrian barriers and lighting, and staff confirmed a 10-foot sidewalk on the north side and a 5-foot one on the south.
Pflumm Road capacity and safety
Pflumm Road between 151st and 159th is a two-lane road carrying about 10,500 vehicles a day, and it's not in the city's capital improvement plan for widening. Residents and commissioners worried that adding hundreds of apartment trips — plus detour traffic from nearby road closures — makes an already dangerous corridor worse.
K-10 at Lone Elm interchange and water main relocation
KDOT is designing the K-10/Lone Elm interchange (not an overpass, Felter confirmed). The city must move a 24-inch water main, but the state pays for it. Construction waits on Lenexa's matching funds.
Dennis Avenue, Hedge Lane to Parker Street improvements
The city's most crash-prone road — a 4.3 crash index with 8,600 vehicles a day — gets a roughly $17 million rebuild with medians, dogbone roundabouts, a signal at Hedge Lane and school-traffic relief at Oregon Trail Junior High. A $6 million federal grant offsets the cost.