I think it puts an additional, and I think unwarranted, burden on the city,” one councilman said of the shelter proposal.

After a more than six-hour council meeting that stretched past midnight, a majority of Lenexa City Council rejected the plan to buy a former La Quinta Inn and turn it into a homeless services center.

What's next after homeless shelter rejected in Lenexa

Homeless advocates and providers are now planning their next steps after the Lenexa City Council rejected a proposed homeless shelter early Wednesday morning. It came after years of planning went into the project,