Stadium financing, 200-home rezoning among items reviewed by Kansas City committees
Kansas City Council committees met on June 30 and considered a slate of significant proposals touching on a professional sports stadium, hundreds of new homes, street repairs and public safety, though final votes have not been published as minutes are not yet available.
The Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee weighed a request to authorize up to $235 million in bonds for an expansion of the KC Current’s stadium. That panel also discussed a $425,000 police lawsuit settlement and the creation of a fund to track KCPD budget overages. Meanwhile, the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee took up a rezoning that would allow 200 residential lots near North Staley Road, and the Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee looked at more than $2.8 million in road and sidewalk projects.
Sidewalk repairs and streetscapes
Transportation and infrastructure officials reviewed three projects with a combined price tag exceeding $2.8 million. The largest item was a $1,488,612.55 contract with Sarai Construction, Inc. for citywide sidewalk repairs. The committee also considered a $550,000 transfer to the Northeast Vivion Road Streetscape Project and an $800,000 funding agreement for relocating and reconstructing N.E. Karapat Drive. A proposal to designate a portion of N. Delta Avenue as “Jim Wright Way” and an amendment to lower Public Works degradation fees also appeared on the agenda.
Northland rezoning and housing plans
The Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee reviewed a proposal to rezone roughly 87 acres at North Staley Road and NE Shoal Creek Parkway from R-80 to R-6, clearing the path for 200 single-family residential lots. A new KCI Area Plan that would guide future development and public investment near the airport was also discussed. In policy matters, members considered a $200 semiannual fee for chronically vacant nuisance properties—now extended to unimproved land—and rules that could permit 24-hour marijuana dispensaries along with updated sign standards for several commercial zoning districts. The committee also had before it a $3,197,466 grant amendment for Ryan White HIV services and $1,495,000 for Jazz District III projects.
Public safety and financial matters
Finance, governance and public safety items included a proposed settlement of $425,000 in a lawsuit brought by Lashaunda Rowe against the city. Officials also discussed setting up a “KCPD Overage Fund” with a $5.9 million appropriation to track police department budget variances. In housing, the committee reviewed an agreement with reStart, Inc. involving two transfers totaling $1.7 million and a development deal that would direct $4 million in infrastructure funds toward single-family housing near Kenneth Road.
Coming up
The Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee will reconvene on July 7 with an eye toward terminating the Blue Ridge Mall Tax Increment Financing plan and dissolving its associated redevelopment funds. Members will also consider an ordinance requiring neighborhood notification when bars change ownership or alcohol license types, a nearly $1.66 million contract for restroom renovations at Music Hall and the Little Theatre (with a $250,000 contingency), and a $2.5 million transfer to the Public Mass Transportation Sales Tax Fund to amend a transit services agreement with KCATA. A five-year lease that would allow Metro KC Fitness to operate a gym in the Wolfe Garage at 320 E. 12th Street is also on the agenda.
That same day, the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee will return to the 87-acre rezoning for 200 homes on North Staley Road and take up a second major land-use item: a rezoning of 55 acres near E. 20th to E. 25th Streets to a planned development district for a hospital campus. A proposal to shift $6,583,180 to the Central City Economic Development Fund, a $64,414 Jackson County COMBAT grant for a truancy court program, and amendments to the Westport Overlay District zoning code are also scheduled for discussion.
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