Battle brews over development restrictions along parkways, boulevards

A classic development-versus-aesthetics battle is being waged over Kansas City's vaunted network of boulevards, parkways and parks. A new ordinance that would apply new development and redevelopment standards to all property within 150 feet of those parks and thoroughfares was approved recently by the city's planning commission and is headed to the City Council. But first, the ordinance — and a substitute proposed by developers — is scheduled to be debated during Thursday's meeting of the council's…