ORDINANCE NO. 241072

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Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department

Approving The Block 138 PIEA General Development Plan and declaring the area in need of redevelopment and rehabilitation pursuant to the Missouri Planned Industrial Expansion Authority (PIEA) Law 100.300-100.620, on about 0.84 acres in an area generally bordered by W. 14th Street on the north, West Truman Road on the south, Main Street on the east, and Baltimore Avenue on the west. (CD-CPC-2024-00180)

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WHEREAS, the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City, Missouri (the "Authority") did prepare or cause to be prepared the Block 138 PIEA General Development Plan and recommended that the Council approve the need for redevelopment and approve the Block 138 General Development Plan for the area; and

WHEREAS, the City Plan Commission has reviewed and recommended approval of the finding of an undeveloped industrial area for the Block 138 PIEA General Development Plan on December 4, 2024, 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 in need of redevelopment 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 authorize the capture and redirection, or abatement or exemption, in...

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