A recent Kansas City Star article published August 16th outlines a project proposal to create a snake habitat upon a new 11 acre plot of land behind Iron Horse, BlackThorne Estates and Water’s Edge. Here is an excerpt from the article:
Redbelly and smooth earth snakes spend most of their lives underground gorging on slugs, worms and snails. Now the reptiles are surfacing, at least bureaucratically, to devour Johnson County tax dollars.State officials insist Johnson County replace any endangered species habitat it disturbs while building new sewers — requiring new homes for snakes on 11 acres at a cost of $250,000 to $500,000.
For more info about this issue, you can follow this link http://lims.jocogov.org/
Below is the list of local official email address to reach out to for questions/commentary.