Oppose the Construction of a Royals Stadium in Aspiria
Oppose the Construction of a Royals Stadium in Aspiria
The Issue
Mr. Sherman, we LOVE the ROYALS and support a new stadium in Kansas!
But we, the local residents of Overland Park and Leawood, OPPOSE the Aspiria Campus location in suburban Overland Park...the antithesis of the Royals organization's stated goal of a downtown stadium. You surveyed season ticket holders, but we would like to make OUR voices heard, loud and clear, about why this is the WRONG location:
1. There are three high schools within 2 miles of the Aspiria campus, exposing our least experienced drivers, including 15 year olds with school/work/religious permits, to MLB stadium level traffic which will inevitably include impaired drivers.
2. There are three hospitals with emergency rooms within 2 miles of the Aspiria location. MLB stadium level traffic could literally cost the lives of our family members and loved ones.
3. Our suburban neighborhood homes back up directly to Nall Avenue on which the stadium would be located. We anticipate precipitous drops in our home values across Overland Park and Leawood, erasing lifelong equity building efforts. As well, we know that our neighborhoods will be impacted by fan parking, the accompanying crime and unacceptable noise levels.
4. We anticipate that some of our highest quality Kansas employers will leave the Aspiria campus, and likely the state of Kansas, replacing excellent jobs that fuel our community's quality of life and fight Kansas' brain drain problem, with low-paying, low skill jobs.
5. It will destroy the heart of the Johnson County Jewish community, economically devastating the Jewish Community Center, which was lovingly built over the last 38 years and is absolutely irreplaceable. With antisemitism on the rise nationwide, it will expose our Jewish community to strangers from all over the world, who may not have their best interests at heart, dredging up valid fears of a repeat of the 2014 fatal shootings by a former Klansman and Neo-Nazi sympathizer.
We urge you to LISTEN to the Overland Park and Leawood communities that would be irreparably harmed by the Royals pursuing the Aspiria Campus for its new stadium location.
The Issue
Mr. Sherman, we LOVE the ROYALS and support a new stadium in Kansas!
But we, the local residents of Overland Park and Leawood, OPPOSE the Aspiria Campus location in suburban Overland Park...the antithesis of the Royals organization's stated goal of a downtown stadium. You surveyed season ticket holders, but we would like to make OUR voices heard, loud and clear, about why this is the WRONG location:
1. There are three high schools within 2 miles of the Aspiria campus, exposing our least experienced drivers, including 15 year olds with school/work/religious permits, to MLB stadium level traffic which will inevitably include impaired drivers.
2. There are three hospitals with emergency rooms within 2 miles of the Aspiria location. MLB stadium level traffic could literally cost the lives of our family members and loved ones.
3. Our suburban neighborhood homes back up directly to Nall Avenue on which the stadium would be located. We anticipate precipitous drops in our home values across Overland Park and Leawood, erasing lifelong equity building efforts. As well, we know that our neighborhoods will be impacted by fan parking, the accompanying crime and unacceptable noise levels.
4. We anticipate that some of our highest quality Kansas employers will leave the Aspiria campus, and likely the state of Kansas, replacing excellent jobs that fuel our community's quality of life and fight Kansas' brain drain problem, with low-paying, low skill jobs.
5. It will destroy the heart of the Johnson County Jewish community, economically devastating the Jewish Community Center, which was lovingly built over the last 38 years and is absolutely irreplaceable. With antisemitism on the rise nationwide, it will expose our Jewish community to strangers from all over the world, who may not have their best interests at heart, dredging up valid fears of a repeat of the 2014 fatal shootings by a former Klansman and Neo-Nazi sympathizer.
We urge you to LISTEN to the Overland Park and Leawood communities that would be irreparably harmed by the Royals pursuing the Aspiria Campus for its new stadium location.
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Petition created on November 23, 2025