ORDINANCE NO. 260449
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Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Authorizing the City Manager to execute a Betterment and Improvement Funding Agreement with the Port Authority of Kansas City for the purposes of reimbursing certain water utility infrastructure to be constructed on the City's behalf, accepting certain rights-of-way and easements, granting certain easements, conveying certain property, waiving certain fees and pedestrian requirements, and authorizing the execution, delivery and recording of such documents as are required to effectuate the foregoing, all in furtherance of road and bridge work for the Missouri River Terminal Project.
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WHEREAS, Port KC purchased certain property generally located at 8100 Norledge Avenue in Kansas City (the "Port KC Property") for the purpose of designing and constructing the Missouri River Terminal, a multimodal facility intended to serve as one of the primary intermodal facilities incorporating rail, road and river traffic for imports, exports and throughputs throughout the Kansas City Metro Area; and
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Missouri River Terminal, Port KC is constructing a bridge extending across the Blue River and certain roads connected thereto (collectively, the "Project"); and
WHEREAS, the City owns certain real property generally located along the banks of the Blue River and bound by Interstate 435 on the west, the Port KC property on the south, the east property line of the Port KC property on the east, and 8400 Hawthorne Road, Kansas City 64120 on the north (the "City Property"); and
WHEREAS, the City Property is located in the area where the Project will be constructed (the "Project Area"), and is no longer needed for public use; and
WHEREAS, the Project will be constructed on and impact multiple properties, including the Port KC Property, the City Property, and certain properties owned by Bayer CropScience, LLC, ("Bayer"), Evergy Metro, Inc. ("Evergy"), and MDC EP Land ...
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