After community pushback over more duplexes, two Wichita suburbs are looking at changing their standards for those homes to better fit their communities.
The proposed rezoning of a large property on Woodlawn and 55th in Derby faced backlash from the community and was ultimately rejected 6-1 by the City Council last October. The proposal would have allowed for a new 40-acre neighborhood with duplexes and single-family homes.
“In terms of why the City Council stated that they voted against it, it was too much duplex development in one concentrated location,” Scott Knebel, Derby’s city planner, told The Eagle. He said the message from the community was “we either don’t want development on this property at all, or we want it to be developed . . . on a five acre lot.”…