Legislation Details

File #: 260477    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Referred
File created: 4/28/2026 In control: Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee
On agenda: 5/19/2026 Final action:
Title: Sponsor: Director of Public Works Department Vacating Right-of-Way excess to the City's needs, in Jackson County, Missouri; and upon the effective date of this ordinance, the City Clerk is hereby directed to record said ordinance in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds for Jackson County, Missouri.
Sponsors: Director of Public Works
Attachments: 1. Release of ROW Docket Memo at W Pnnwy at SWBlvd, 2. Southwest Blvd - West Pennway Parking RoW Map
ORDINANCE NO. 260477


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Sponsor: Director of Public Works Department

Vacating Right-of-Way excess to the City's needs, in Jackson County, Missouri; and upon the effective date of this ordinance, the City Clerk is hereby directed to record said ordinance in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds for Jackson County, Missouri.

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WHEREAS, in 1987 the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acquired property by Warranty Deed in "South Side Place", Document Numbers K784865, Bk. 1702 Pg. 1925 and K788086, Bk. 1710 Pg. 690; and in "Ellison & Murdock's Addition", Document Number K788762, Bk. 1712 Pg. 68, for new right-of-way for the construction of the Broadway - West Pennway Viaduct and the approach roadways of the Broadway - West Pennway Viaduct; and

WHEREAS, upon completion of the Broadway - West Pennway Viaduct, there exists unimproved right-of-way that is excess to the needs of the project once the construction of the viaduct was completed;

WHEREAS, said excess right-of-way is not part of the major street plan and does not provide the only physical access to any property or for any realigned right-of-way; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Council of Kansas City does hereby find that the Director of the Department of Public Works has declared certain City Right-of-Way to be in excess of the City's needs with no future plans to improve said Right-of-Way and therefore requests that the following City Right-of-Way be vacated while retaining an Inspection and Maintenance Easement in "South Side Place", and in "Ellison & Murdock's Addition" subdivisions in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, and described as follows:

A tract of land being a part of Lots 13 through 17, Block 1, South Side Place, and Lots 5 through 12, Ellison and Murdock's Addition, both subdivisions in the Southeast Quarter (SE1/4) of the Northeast Quarter (NE1/4) of Section 7, Town...

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