City Projects

The parks and recreation master plan is a road map for the utilization, development and expansion of Parkville’s current and future park system. The current plan was adopted in 2016 and is being re-evaluated.

A survey will be mailed to all Parkville residents in October.

On June 13, 2022, a tractor trailer ran into the north side of the Farmers Market building located in downtown Parkville, south of the railroad tracks. Although the structure had existed in its current location for over 35 years, it was hit twice in a period 45 days. The City has taken on the challenge of building a new farmers market structure, along with parking lot improvements.

The City partnered with the U.S. Corps of Engineers to develop a Section 1135 project in the Parkville Bottoms located in Platte Landing Park. Platte County conveyed the park to the City in 2018. The Parkville Bottoms is a cornerstone project that will significantly improve habitats for a variety of wildlife. It aligns with recommendations from the Parks Master Plan and will complement recreational features in the riverfront parks, enhance the existing trail system, restore two wetland areas and the riparian corridor along Rush Creek, and improve the aesthetic value of the parks and downtown Parkville. All the areas will be planted with native vegetation that will help protect the source area for water supply wells and add floodplain storage space along the Missouri River. The overall restoration is approximately 23 acres of emergent wetlands, 14 acres of wet mesic bottomland prairie and 4.5 acres of riparian corridor.

NW Bell Road is a 0.9 mile-long two-lane corridor, with significant improvement potential, that runs north-south from Highway 45 to Hamilton Street. The City is working with McClure Engineering to design pedestrian improvements along the corridor.

The improvements project includes sections of Route 9 from 4th Street south to the Park College Entrance Drive and from S. Crooked Road and FF Highway (Mill Street) west to the Route 9 intersection. The City is working with George Butler Associates to design the improvements.

Approximately 36 trains per day travel through downtown Parkville. Over the years merchants, residents and visitors have expressed concerns about the level of train noise downtown. Wayside horns were determined to be a feasible option to reduce train noise downtown.

The City has been reviewing and updating its building architectural design standards and landscape and site design standards.