Fund Roads Not Zoning
They're spending your money to take away your rights.
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Commissioners have budgeted $108,000 — with another $55,000 proposed. Not to fix your roads, but to hire consultants to write zoning regulations that restrict what you can do with your own land.
- 61% of residents unhappy with zoning
- 81% unhappy with tax increases
Tell Commissioners to stop spending your tax dollars on zoning you don’t want and the county can’t afford!
Here's where your money is going
Cherokee County commissioners have approved spending on an out-of-state landscape architecture, planning and urban design consultant agency called “Confluence” to develop new zoning regulations, despite overwhelming opposition from residents.
- $108,000 already budgeted
- + $55,000 more proposed
That’s $163,000 of your tax dollars — not for road repairs, not for services — but to fund a regulatory process most residents never asked for and don’t want.
County Commissioners are following a plan that would:
Burden local taxpayers even more after property taxes have already risen ~24% since 2020
(Kansas Department of Revenue, Real and Personal Property Value and Tax Summary, Cherokee County Value and Tax, Accessed 3/9/26)
Take rights away from landowners, forcing them to ask government permission to use their own land
Block new economic development that could strengthen the county
Leave major funding gaps for roads, bridges, and law enforcement