apartment units downtown across all economic levels,” Mayor Young reports. “That includes from low-income housing to more luxury-type housing, historic building revitalizations, maintaining that historic nature of downtown while also meeting our housing demands.” The Raven Hills planned development south of Benedictine College will add over 50 new single-family homes, strategically positioned to serve anticipated medical school growth. Infrastructure improvements support this housing expansion but present ongoing challenges. Parts of Atchison still operate on combined sewer systems that handle both sanitary waste and stormwater, requiring expensive separation projects. “We’ve been working with every entity we can—Kansas Development of Health and Environment, the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas Department of Commerce— putting together grant funding and congressionally directed spending funding for these large sewer 27 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 09 ATCHISON, KS
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