DeSoto ? Eight competing and divergent plans have emerged for how to put the 9,065-acre site near the defunct Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant on the Johnson County tax rolls.

Ideas include a wind farm, close-knit neighborhoods, a high-tech research park, Country Club Plaza-style entertainment center and even a home for a National Hockey League franchise.

Don Jarrett, chief legal counsel for the county, said all the plans were “statements of interest” and not full-fledged financial proposals. He said he hoped to have each plan evaluated by early January.

Johnson County commissioners had agreed to give developers with a business plan and the capital until the end of last week to make their interests known.

The four new plans that emerged Monday during a work session with the commissioners came from Hunt Midwest Enterprises Inc. of Kansas City; LS Commercial Real Estate of Overland Park; real estate broker Doug Dowell of Shawnee and Pollution Risk Services of Cincinnati.

Pollution Risk Services owner Mark Mather said Tuesday he wanted to develop a New Urbanist bedroom community for Lawrence and Kansas City along the Kansas Highway 10 corridor. New Urbanist sites create homes with front porches that sit close together to encourage social interaction.

Under his concept, his firm would do $50 million to $100 million in cleanup at the site and partner with up to five developers, the names of which he did not want to disclose.

Hunt Midwest is a mining and real-estate firm owned by Lamar Hunt, founder of the Kansas City Chiefs. The firm has developed SubTropolis, the world’s largest underground business complex, in north Kansas City. It also has developed business parks and eight master-planned communities. Hunt Midwest officials declined comment Wednesday on their proposal for the site.

Paul Licausi, president of LS Commercial Real Estate, said he envisioned developing the site in line with the county’s community-in-a-park plan created in 1995. Licausi sees public use areas, university research coordinated with the state Board of Regents and commercial interests at Sunflower.

Doug Dowell, an investor and developer who works for Crown Realty of Olathe, has a vision for “Metropolis, Kan.” at Sunflower. He sees a high-tech manufacturing center and 2,000-acre research and industrial park with New Urbanist dwellings, retail space and Country Club Plaza-like entertainment venues.

He also said he would like to attract a National Hockey League franchise.

Kessinger/Hunter Inc. of Kansas City was the first firm to express interest to state officials in January 2002. It also pitched a community-in-a-park and research park plan.

Other plans:

Kansas Wind Power LLC of Lenexa, a nine-employee firm housed in the county’s business incubator program, is trying to build support for a wind farm. Taxpayers Offering Tomorrow’s Opportunities is calling for a research center as a private-public venture for Kansas University, Kansas State University and other schools.

The final Sunflower query came from the Opus Group, a full-service real-estate developer based in Minneapolis, Minn.