Page 4 - Overview Winter 2019

New restaurant opens at city golf course with ‘Great food, great view...’
“Great food, great view of the course. Country club style, without the membership!” is how one guest described their experience at Club 27.
Club 27 restaurant, part of the new, convenient and accommodating Sykes/Lady Overland Park Golf Clubhouse, is open to all.
It boasts an indoor and outdoor
restaurant, and bar. Menu features
include American-style cuisine, along
with weekly specials and a fantastic happy hour.
The clubhouse has several private rooms available for meetings or special events. The Fireside Suite seats up to
40 people and has a fireplace with floor-to-ceiling stone to provide an elegant and cozy feel for your party. The Boardroom
seats 12 and is ideal for a meeting or private dining experience. You can rent out the entire restaurant for your special event, with a capacity of 100 guests. The lower patio, just off the restaurant, seats 100 people. Enjoy the patio for events, golf tournaments or as additional outdoor seating for the restaurant.
Sykes/Lady Overland Park Golf Club is a 27-hole, year-round golf facility. For more information, to book a
tee time or make reservations at Club 27, visit golfop.com. For questions, call 913-890-1600 or email [email protected].
College Boulevard going on a ‘diet’ in 2020
On-street parking and improvement to walkability along a one-mile portion of College Boulevard is coming in 2020.
City Council members began considering a “road diet” for College Boulevard a couple of years ago following a series of public meetings with residents, businesses and others along and near the roadway as part of a College and Metcalf Corridor study.
Accessibility and parking were two of the topics brought up by meeting participants. Other concerns include land use, zoning and economic development; hospitality and amenities; culture and identity; building design; and events and activities.
Earlier this fall, the Overland Park City Council heard from staff members about plans to reduce College Boulevard one lane in each direction from Metcalf east to Nall. This recommendation stemmed from the corridor study and is supported by a detailed traffic study.
College Boulevard was widened to six lanes in the 1980s. At Nall east to State Line and Pflumm west to K-7, College Boulevard is a total of four lanes, two in each direction, and generally located in other adjacent cities.
The most recent traffic counts for College Boulevard, east of Metcalf, shows 17,000 vehicles per day.
Possible development along College Boulevard may increase to about 21,000 vehicles per day in the future, As a result, the street would stay well within its traffic capacity, even with one fewer lane in each direction.
Prior to this proposal to reduce lanes, plans were already underway to apply a new surface and roadway traffic markings in 2020 to this section of College Boulevard. About 100 on-street parking spots will be added and the speed limit will drop from 45 mph to 40 mph from Metcalf east to Nall.
Learn more about the proposed changes to College Boulevard and see traffic simulations, visit www.opkansas.org/collegeboulevard.
Year
Vehicles Per Day
Percent of Six-Lane Capacity
Percent of Four-Lane Capacity
2019
17,000
33%
50%
2006
26,000
50%
76%
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