3/8-Cent Sales Tax Renewal future opportunities for trails

Published on February 12, 2025

Whether you’re walking, jogging or biking, Lenexa’s multiuse trail network provides citywide opportunities to stay active, enjoy nature and travel to destinations. Throughout the Parks & Recreation Master Plan process, trails were consistently given the highest priority by residents. If renewed in this spring’s mail ballot election, Lenexa’s 3/8-Cent Sales Tax would help fund enhancements to and expansion of Lenexa’s trails. Trail priorities identified through the Master Plan include:

• Extending trail corridors across the city. Teams working on the Parks & Recreation Master Plan and Comprehensive Plan — which guides land use and development — collaborated on a future trails map that will inform new trail locations. Priority would be placed on trails that connect people to parks, schools and neighborhoods. 
• Identifying and filling gaps along the trail system. 
• Replacing asphalt trails with 10-foot-wide concrete trails with a minimum of 3 feet of clearance on both sides wherever possible. 
• Expanding nature trails, where appropriate. This could help expand the trail network into hard-to-reach locations and provide an opportunity for visitors to learn more about local ecosystems.
• Improving wayfinding and mapping signage along trails.

The City of Lenexa’s 3/8-Cent Sales Tax was approved by voters in 2008 to fund street and parks maintenance and projects. Lenexans will vote on whether to renew the Sales Tax for an additional 20 years in a mail ballot election this spring. Ballots will be mailed to all registered Lenexa voters March 11 and are due at the Johnson County Election Office by noon on April 1, 2025.