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A Lee's Summit neighborhood successfully opposed a planned housing development after the city council voted 8-1 against the proposal at Tuesday night's council meeting.

Even with the council's decision, the developer said they're exploring ways to build the project .

Just outside the Kensington Farms neighborhood near County Line and Ward roads are signs promoting single-family and maintenance-provided homes.

The proposed expansion of the neighborhood, called Pathways at Kensington Farms, included rental townhouses among single-family homes and a 55-plus community.

Current residents of the neighborhood said they're against developers building rental properties, saying that's not what they were promised.

"They can't be rentals," Laurie Ward said. "We ca

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