ORDINANCE NO. 230393

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Sponsor: City Manager

Approving the Guadalupe Center Multifamily PIEA General Development Plan on approximately 2.32 acres generally located at the northwest quadrant of Hardesty Avenue and Van Brunt Drive in Kansas City, Missouri, and declaring said area to be blighted and in need of redevelopment and rehabilitation. (CD-CPC- 2023-00041)

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WHEREAS, the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City, Missouri (the "Authority") did prepare or cause to be prepared the Guadalupe Center Multifamily PIEA General Development Plan and recommended that the Council approve the finding of blight and approve the General Development Plan for the area; and

WHEREAS, the City Plan Commission has reviewed and recommended approval of the finding of blight of the Guadalupe Center Multifamily PIEA General Development Plan on May 2, 2023, 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 a blighted area 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 No. 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 whole or in part, of ad valorem real property taxes to the full extent authorized by any provision of law; NO...

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