COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 220730
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Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Approving the Main Street - ABC/35 Block Urban Renewal Area Plan on approximately 2.4 acres generally located at 3244 Main and 3634 Main Street; and declaring said area to be blighted and in need of redevelopment and rehabilitation. (CD-CPC-2022-00094)
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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 historic and distressed properties along Main 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 Main Street - ABC/36 Block Urban Renewal 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 approval of the Main Street - ABC/35 Block Urban Renewal Plan on July 19, 2022;
WHEREAS, on October 6, 2016, the City did pass Second Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 160383, as amended, which Ordinance No. 160383, as amended, 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 no...
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