Legislation Details

File #: 260659    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/22/2026 In control: Council
On agenda: 7/30/2026 Final action: 7/30/2026
Title: Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Designating certain neighborhoods and properties as Housing Accelerator Target Areas pursuant to Section 2-1694.2, Code of Ordinances.
Sponsors: Quinton Lucas, Melissa Patterson Hazley
Attachments: 1. Docket Memo 260659 - Neighborhoods, Housing, 2. Public Testimony Health Forward Foundation Support for Ordinances 260658 and 260659, 3. Authenicated Ordinance 260659 cs
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[COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR] ORDINANCE NO. 260659

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Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

Designating certain neighborhoods and properties as Housing Accelerator Target Areas pursuant to Section 2-1694.2, Code of Ordinances.

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WHEREAS, the Council is establishing the Housing Accelerator Fund to support the rehabilitation and return to productive use of abandoned, nuisance, and distressed residential properties in disinvested neighborhoods; and

WHEREAS, Section 2-1694.2, Code of Ordinances, will authorize the Council to designate areas as Housing Accelerator Target Areas; and

WHEREAS, the Council finds that the neighborhoods and properties designated by this ordinance exhibit vacancy, abandonment, dangerous structures, tax delinquency, disinvestment, or other indicators of blight warranting prioritized investment through the Housing Accelerator Fund; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That, pursuant to Section 2-1694.2, Code of Ordinances, each parcel containing a residential property that meets either of the following criteria is designated as a Housing Accelerator Target Area:

(a) the property is included on the City's dangerous buildings list; or

(b) the property is owned by the Kansas City, Missouri Homesteading Authority or the Land Bank of Kansas City, Missouri and otherwise satisfies the eligibility requirements of Section 2-1694.4, Code of Ordinances.

Section 2. That, pursuant to Section 2-1694.2, Code of Ordinances, the following neighborhoods are designated as Housing Accelerator Target Areas:

(a) Washington Wheatley;

(b) Town Fork Creek;

(c) South Roundtop;

(d) Key Coalition;

(e) Blue Valley; and
(d) Blue Hills.

The boundaries of the designated neighborhoods shall be the official neighborhood boundaries maintained by the City.

Section 3. Designation under this ordinance does not, by itself, es...

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