ORDINANCE NO. 250527
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Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea
Approving the 9th and Central PIEA General Development Plan on an irregular shaped site consisting of 4.42 acres, not including public rights of way, generally located within the area between 8th Street and 10th Street and between Broadway and Wyandotte, and declaring said area to be an undeveloped industrial area and in need of development and rehabilitation pursuant to the Planned Industrial Expansion Law; and authorizing tax abatement.
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WHEREAS, the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City, Missouri ("Authority") did prepare or cause to be prepared the 9th and Central PIEA General Development Plan and recommended that the Council approve the finding of the existence of an undeveloped industrial area and approve the General Development Plan for the area; and
WHEREAS, the City Plan Commission has reviewed and recommended approval of the finding of the existence of an undeveloped industrial area for the 9th and Central PIEA General Development Plan on July 16, 2025, as evidenced by its disposition of the case and its written recommendations submitted to the City; and
WHEREAS, Section 100.400, RSMo, authorizes the Council to make a finding that an area is an undeveloped industrial area and approve a general development plan for such area if the Council finds that the plan is feasible and in conformity with the general plan for the development of the community as a whole; and
WHEREAS, on October 6, 2016, the City did pass Second Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 160383, as amended, which enacted guidelines on the City's use of abated and exempted real property taxes in funding economic development projects; and
WHEREAS, Section 9 of Ordinance No. 160383, as amended, as modified by Second Committee Substitute for Ordinance 200497, as amended, provides that notwithstanding the guidelines set forth therein, the Council retains its discretion to aut...
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