Bob and Shirley Phillips created this site as a neighborhood focused website for the Kansas City Metro area (see Description). Here are a few of the items on this site that interest us the most. They will give you a pretty good flavor of what NeighborhoodNet is about so you can decide if this is a site you would like to re-visit. In February, 1999, we announced the closing of the site because it took so much of our free time. We received many letters from good friends and readers. After a couple of months we decided to re-open the site, but spend much less time on it. So far that is working.
The Neighborhood Websites page includes links to all the websites maintained by neighborhoods in the KC Metro area (if we've missed one, please notify us at phillips@kcnet.com). We have included aerial photographs and maps highlighting the boundaries of the neighborhoods, when we know them. We occasionally review their sites and headline stories of interest. We also subscribe to their newsletters if they have one and catch stories that way.
We am tracking the development of a neighborhood from scratch. For one neighborhood just getting developed, we've obtained details about financing, negotiations, the developer's views on quality (with detailed suggestions when building your own house) and what alternative views are, a history of the land going back to 1858. See Creation Of A Neighborhood.
If you need to repair your current home and can't find good contractors, check out recommendations from your neighbors (and supply your own).
If you are selling your home yourself or looking for a home, check out the FSBO page. You can list your home for free and get an individual page with a map. We have also linked to the best, free FSBO websites we can find, giving you an opportunity at no cost to list your house or search for houses on national FSBO websites with high volumes of hits.
Our own and surrounding neighborhoods have faced a barrage of development. One neighbor, Norm Ledgin, a very experienced activist with land planning experience, writes a column, The View From Oxford. We have written many articles on these particular subjects. Here are topics and links to articles:
If you need to make contact with other neighborhoods about an issue, read How To Contact A Neighborhood.
This site is focused on individuals and the neighborhoods they live in. If the above topics and ones like them interest you, check out the e-mail and home page area. You can see the topics of interest to others (gardening is high on the list - see the Master Gardener column by Wendy Crosby) by seeing their home pages, a description of their home based businesses, a map image showing where many of them live.