Topeka Planning Commission recommends rezoning for local church

TOPEKA (KSNT) - Open Arms Outreach Ministries is one step closer to housing the homeless again.

Monday night at the Topeka Planning Commission meeting, commissioners helped pave the way to make this a possibility with an approval recommendation for rezoning.

Under the church's previous zoning, they were allowed to have a daycare, a community center, religious use and a few people to live in as caretakers. Under the new zoning, the church will be able to house eight people...