ORDINANCE NO. 260611
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Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Vacating an approximately 6,000-square-foot alley in Districts R-0.5/B1-1/M1-5 generally located 150 feet east of Lydia Avenue, between East 10th Street and East 11th Street and directing the City Clerk to record certain documents. (CD-ROW-2025-00023)
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the Council of Kansas City does hereby find and declare that on the twelfth day of June, 2025, a petition was filed with the City Clerk of Kansas City by Tara Green for the vacation of all of an alley in Block B, Pratt’s Addition, recorded in Book 2, Page 25 at the Jackson County Recorder of Deeds office, and Block 1, Gates and Kendall’s Second Addition, recorded in Book 12, Page 64 at said Recorder of Deeds office, both subdivisions in the City of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, being 15 feet wide, lying between the South line of East 10th Street, as now established, and the North line of East 11th Street, as now established, giving the distinct description of the alley to be vacated, and also the names of the persons and corporations owning or claiming to own the property fronting thereon, and that the consent of the persons and corporations owning or claiming to own three-fourths of the front feet of the property immediately adjoining said alley has been obtained in writing, that said consent has been acknowledged as deeds are acknowledged, and was duly filed with the petition for such vacation in the City Clerk's Office.
Section 2. That the Council finds that the City Plan Commission has duly endorsed its approval of this Ordinance hereon.
Section 3. That the Council finds that no private rights will be unreasonably injured or endangered by this vacation and that the public will suffer no unreasonable loss or inconvenience thereby.
Section 4. That all of an alley in Block B, Pratt’s Addition, recorded in Book 2, Page 25 at the Jackson County Recorder of Deeds office, and Block 1, Gates and Kendall’s Second Addition, recorded in Book 12, Page 64 at said Recorder of Deeds office, both subdivisions in the City of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, being 15 feet wide, lying between the South line of East 10th Street, as now established, and the North line of East 11th Street, as now established be and the same is hereby vacated, and subject to the following conditions:
1. The applicant shall provide a private access easement for the southern portion of the alley for the applicant and Lincoln University and shall provide a private access easement for the northern portion of the alley for Jazz Hill Apartments LP and Hamilton Sandra L Trustee.
2. The applicant shall retain all utility easements and protect facilities required by AT&T.
3. The applicant shall retain all utility easements and protect facilities required by Spectrum Charter.
4. The applicant shall retain all utility easements and protect facilities required by Water Services Department of Kansas City, Missouri.
5. The applicant shall retail all utility easements and protect facilities required by Evergy.
6. The applicant record a private easement for a gate with the applicable property owners.
Section 5. That the City Clerk of Kansas City, Missouri, be and she is hereby authorized and directed to acknowledge this ordinance as deeds are acknowledged, and to cause this ordinance and the consent of property owners hereinbefore referred to, to be filed for record in the Recorder's Office in Jackson County, Missouri.
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Approved as to form:
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Sarah Baxter
Senior Associate City Attorney
Approved by the City Plan Commission
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Sara Copeland, FAICP
Secretary
STATE OF MISSOURI )
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COUNTY OF ________ )
On the _____ day of ___________________, 20___, before me, a Notary Public in and for said County, personally appeared ____________________________________ to me known to be the City Clerk of Kansas City, Missouri, in the above and foregoing ordinance mentioned, and acknowledged the said ordinance to be the act and deed of said Kansas City, duly passed by the Council of said City, and became effective as herein stated.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in Kansas City, Missouri, the day and year first above written.
My term expires _________________________, 20____.
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Notary Public within and for
County, Missouri
IN RECORDER'S OFFICE
STATE OF MISSOURI )
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COUNTY OF _________ )
I, the undersigned, Recorder of Deeds within and for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing instrument of writing was on the ______ day of _____________________, A.D. 20____, at ________ o'clock _______ minutes M., duly filed for record in this office, and with certificate of acknowledgment thereon endorsed, is recorded in the records of this office in Book _______________________, at page ___________.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said office at Kansas City, Missouri, this day and year last aforesaid.
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Recorder
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Deputy