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File #: 250617    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/17/2025 In control: Council
On agenda: 7/31/2025 Final action: 7/31/2025
Title: Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Vacating an approximately 2,000 square-foot alley in Zoning Districts R-1.5/B3-2/B4-5 (residential/commercial) generally located 100 feet south of the intersection of East 31st Street and Grand Avenue; and directing the City Clerk to record certain documents. (CD-ROW-2025-00014)
Sponsors: Director of City Planning & Development
Attachments: 1. Docket Memo CD-ROW-2025-00014 KCTV Tower Vacation, 2. Exhibit_CD-ROW-2025-00014_KCTV Tower Alley Vacation, 3. Petition to Vacate Form_CD-ROW-2025-00014_KCTV Tower Alley Vacation, 4. Consent to Vacate Forms_CD-ROW-2025-00014_KCTV Tower Alley Vacation, 5. Utility Comments Forms_CD-ROW-2025-00014_KCTV Tower Alley Vacation, 6. CPC Staff Report_CD-ROW-2025-00014_KCTV Tower Alley Vacation, 7. CPC Staff Presentation_CD-ROW-2025-00014_KCTV Tower Alley Vacation, 8. CPC Disposition Letter_CD-ROW-2025-00014_KCTV Tower Alley Vacation, 9. Presentation_KCTVTowerVacation_CD-ROW-2025-00014_PP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORDINANCE NO. 250617

 

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Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department

 

Vacating an approximately 2,000 square-foot alley in Zoning Districts R-1.5/B3-2/B4-5 (residential/commercial) generally located 100 feet south of the intersection of East 31st Street and Grand Avenue; and directing the City Clerk to record certain documents. (CD-ROW-2025-00014) 

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

                     Section 1.  That the Council of Kansas City does hereby find and declare that on the 25th day of April, 2025, a petition was filed with the City Clerk of Kansas City by Mike Sulzman for the vacation of a tract of land in the southwest quarter of Section 17, Township 49 North, Range 33 West, of the 6th PM., in the City of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, prepared by Andrea Weishaubt PLS 2025003640 dated April 22, 2025; Being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of Lot 1, KCPT Final Plat, in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, all lying in the Southwest quarter of Section 17, Township 49 North, Range 33 West; thence South 02°20’16” West, along the West right of way line of Grand Avenue, as now established, a distance of 122.98 feet to the point of beginning; thence continuing along said right of way, South 02°20’16” West, a distance of 14.00 feet; thence North 87°15’12” West, a distance of 142.45 feet; thence North 02°10’42” East, a distance of 14.00 feet; thence South 87°15’12” East, a distance of 142.45 feet to the point of beginning, containing 1994.41 Square feet or 0.0458 acres more or less, giving the  distinct description of the alley to be vacated, and also the names of the persons and corporations owning or claiming to own the property fronting thereon, and that the consent of the persons and corporations owning or claiming to own three-fourths of the front feet of the property immediately adjoining said alley has been obtained in writing, that said consent has been acknowledged as deeds are acknowledged, and was duly filed with the petition for such vacation in the City Clerk's Office.

 

                     Section 2.  That the Council finds that the City Plan Commission has duly endorsed its approval of this Ordinance hereon.

 

                     Section 3.  That the Council finds that no private rights will be unreasonably injured or endangered by this vacation and that the public will suffer no unreasonable loss or inconvenience thereby.

 

                     Section 4.  That a tract of land in the southwest quarter of Section 17, Township 49 North, Range 33 West, of the 6th PM., in the City of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, prepared by Andrea Weishaubt PLS 2025003640 dated April 22, 2025; Being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of Lot 1, KCPT Final Plat, in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, all lying in the Southwest quarter of Section 17, Township 49 North, Range 33 West; thence South 02°20’16” West, along the West right of way line of Grand Avenue, as now established, a distance of 122.98 feet to the point of beginning; thence continuing along said right of way, South 02°20’16” West, a distance of 14.00 feet; thence North 87°15’12” West, a distance of 142.45 feet; thence North 02°10’42” East, a distance of 14.00 feet; thence South 87°15’12” East, a distance of 142.45 feet to the point of beginning, containing 1994.41 Square feet or 0.0458 acres more or less be and the same is hereby vacated and subject to the following conditions:

 

1.                     That the applicant shall retain all utility easements and protect facilities required by Evergy.

 

2.                     That the applicant shall retain all utility easements and protect facilities required by Spectrum Charter.

 

3.                     That the applicant shall retain all utility easements and protect facilities required by Segra - UPN.

 

4.                     That the applicant shall retain all utility easements and protect facilities required by the Water Services Department of Kansas City, Missouri.

 

5.                     That the applicant shall retain all utility easements and protect facilities required by Google Fiber.

 

                     Section 5.  That the City Clerk of Kansas City, Missouri, be and she is hereby authorized and directed to acknowledge this ordinance as deeds are acknowledged, and to cause this ordinance and the consent of property owners hereinbefore referred to, to be filed for record in the Recorder's Office in Jackson County, Missouri. 

 

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                                                                                                                              Approved as to form:

 

 

                                                                                                                              ____________________________________

                                                                                                                              Sarah Baxter

                                                                                                                              Senior Associate City Attorney

 

                                                                                                                              Approved by the City Plan Commission

 

 

                                                                                                                              ____________________________________

                                                                                                                              Sara Copeland, FAICP

Secretary

 

STATE OF MISSOURI   )

                                                                    )  ss.

COUNTY OF ________  )

 

                     On the _____ day of ___________________, 20___, before me, a Notary Public in and for said County, personally appeared ____________________________________ to me known to be the City Clerk of Kansas City, Missouri, in the above and foregoing ordinance mentioned, and acknowledged the said ordinance to be the act and deed of said Kansas City, duly passed by the Council of said City, and became effective as herein stated.

 

                     In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in Kansas City, Missouri, the day and year first above written.

 

                     My term expires _________________________, 20____.

 

                                                                                                                 ____________________________________

                                                                                                                              Notary Public within and for

                                                                                                                                  County, Missouri

 

IN RECORDER'S OFFICE

 

STATE OF MISSOURI    )

                                                             )  ss.

COUNTY OF _________ )

 

                     I, the undersigned, Recorder of Deeds within and for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing instrument of writing was on the ______ day of _____________________, A.D. 20____, at ________ o'clock _______ minutes M., duly filed for record in this office, and with certificate of acknowledgment thereon endorsed, is recorded in the records of this office in Book _______________________, at page ___________.

 

                     In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said office at Kansas City, Missouri, this day and year last aforesaid.

 

                                                                                                                              ____________________________________

                                                                                                                              Recorder

 

                                                                                                                              By_________________________________

                                                                                                                                                   Deputy