OTTAWA — The Ottawa City Commission discussed some minor changes in connection with the K-68 corridor management plan, and the future of growth along the highway Monday. Commissioners wondered if K-68 west of Ottawa would be expanded to a four-lane highway because of the amount of traffic. However, that depends on population and traffic growth along K-68 west of Ottawa, city planning and codes director Wynndee Lee told commissioners. At the present, that doesn’t look likely, she said. The corridor management plan, which was pushed by the Kansas Department of Transportation, seeks to control growth and development along the K-68 right-of-way between the eastern edge of Ottawa and the Missouri border. KDOT plans to widen the highway in Franklin County, east of Ottawa, and Miami County to four lanes, and the corridor plan would prevent traffic snarls, expense and complications that bedeviled the state and Wichita, when Kellogg Avenue, also U.S. 54, was upgraded and widened. The commission will take up the changes at the commission meeting Wednesday morning.
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 4 p.m.
