ORDINANCE NO. 210896

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Declaring a portion of the property generally located within the Ridgeview Heights Apartments PIEA Project Area at 32nd and Hardesty, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri to be blighted and insanitary and in need of redevelopment and rehabilitation pursuant to the Missouri Planned Industrial Expansion Law, Sections 100.300-100.620, RSMo.

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WHEREAS, the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City, Missouri (the "Authority") did prepare or cause to be prepared a qualification analysis for a portion of the property generally located within the Ridgeview Heights Apartments PIEA Project Area at 32nd and Hardesty, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri (the "Project Area"), said Project Area being legally described on the attached Exhibit A; and

WHEREAS, on September 7, 2021, the Authority adopted Resolution No. 2180 finding the Area obsolete, decadent, blighted, substandard, and insanitary pursuant to Article VI, section 21 and Article X, section 7 of the Missouri Constitution, finding the Area blighted, insanitary and an undeveloped industrial area pursuant to Section 100.310, RSMo., and approving and recommending to the City Council that the Area be so designated; and

WHEREAS, on October ___, 2021, the City Plan Commission reviewed and recommended approval and a finding of the Area as a Blighted Area; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Council declares the Project Area to be a Blighted Area in need of industrial development as defined in Section 100.310, RSMo, which constitutes an economic or social liability or a serious and growing menace, which is injurious to the public health, safety, morals, economy and welfare of the residents of Kansas City, and finds that the elimination or prevention of the detrimental conditions in such area by the commercial development of such area is necessary and in the interest of the public healt...

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