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Suburbs look for solutions as they show their age

By MARK WIEBE, The Kansas City Star

The houses that began spreading across northeastern Johnson County in the mid-1940s represented a vanguard suburban movement in the Kansas City area…But the houses left in the wake of that boom — which lasted from the post-World War II years to 1970 — didn’t stay new forever. By today’s suburban standards, many of them seem small, lacking adequate closet space, large master bedrooms and enough bathrooms.