ORDINANCE NO. 230855
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Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Declaring approximately one acre generally located on the west side of Oak Street between 31st Street and Linwood Boulevard to be blighted and insanitary and in need of redevelopment and adopting the Oak Street Urban Renewal Plan for the same pursuant to the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority Law. (CD-CPC-2023-00060)
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WHEREAS, Section 99.430, RSMo, provides that a legislative body may approve a declaration of blight and approve an urban renewal plan for the same area simultaneously; and
WHEREAS, it is desirable and in the public interest that the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of Kansas City, Missouri submit an Urban Renewal Plan for the Oak Street Urban Redevelopment Plan, being an area generally located on the west side of Oak Street between Linwood Boulevard and 31st Street, and
WHEREAS, the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority has found said area to be blighted due to the insanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of site improvements, and a combination of such factors so as to constitute an economic or social liability to the public health, safety, morals or welfare; and
WHEREAS, the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority has recommended and determined that the Oak Street LCRA General Development Plan area be eligible for tax abatement and, if necessary, the exercise of eminent domain by the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority; and
WHEREAS, the City Plan Commission reviewed and recommended denial of the Oak Street Urban Renewal Plan on July 18, 2023; and
WHEREAS, the Oak Street Urban Redevelopment Plan is located within a continually distressed census tract; 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 re...
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