Pishny v. Board of County Commissioners

Hill, J.:

One of the many duties of a county commissioner in Kansas is to decide whether a city’s proposed annexation land into the city provides for the orderly growth and development of the entire community, both inside and outside the city. In this appeal, a coalition of landowners seeks the reversal of the resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County granting an annexation petition of the City of Overland Park. Our review of the record reveals that the Board of Commissioners did not lose jurisdiction to make this decision, as the landowners contend. The Board left the…