ORDINANCE NO. 100315

Approving the plat of Pritchard Place, an addition in Jackson County, Missouri; accepting various easements; establishing grades on public ways; authorizing the Director of City Development to execute a cooperative agreement with Habitat for Humanity; designating requisitioning authority; and authorizing the City Clerk to record this ordinance and attached documents. (SD1423A)

WHEREAS, on February 25, 2010, the City Council approved Ordinance No. 100129 to provide $204,000.00 from District 5 PIAC funds for the design and construction of public improvements for a residential development at E. 66th Terrace and Broadmoor Road, City Project No. 64010004; and

WHEREAS, the City and Habitat for Humanity, Kansas City, Inc., desire to enter into a Cooperative Agreement for the design and construction of City Project No. 10-3090-898500-89009996; and

WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the Director of City Development to administer this capital project due to the critical coordination required with the proposed adjacent residential development project to be known as Pritchard Place; and

WHEREAS, the City Council now desires to approve an ordinance to accept the final plat and to authorize the Director of City Development to enter into a cooperative agreement for public improvements; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. The Director of City Development is hereby authorized to enter into a Cooperative Agreement with Habitat for Humanity, Kansas City, Inc., for design and construction of public improvements at E. 66th Terrace and Broadmoor Road with the agreement being in a form substantially similar to that attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference.

Section 2. The Director of City Development is hereby designated as the requisitioning authority for Account No. 10-3090-64010004-B for City Project No. 64010004.

Section 3. That the plat of Pritchard Place, a subdivision in Jackson County, Missouri, a true and correct copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, is hereby approved.

Section 4. That the plat granting and reserving unto Kansas City an easement and license or right to locate, construct, operate and maintain facilities including, but not limited to, water, gas, sewerage, telephone, cable TV, surface drainage, underground conduits, pad mounted transformers, service pedestals, any and all of them upon, over, under and along the strips of land outlined and designated on the plat by the words utility easement or U/E be and the same are hereby accepted and where other easements are outlined and designated on the plat for a particular purpose, be and the same are hereby accepted for the purpose as therein set out.

Section 5. That various easements in Kansas City, Jackson County, executed by the following entities, and which appear of record as the instrument number and respective book and page numbers are hereby accepted for the purposes stated thereof:

Section 6. That the grades of the streets and other public ways set out on the plat, herein accepted, are hereby established at the top of curb, locating and defining the grade points which shall be connected by true planes or vertical curves between such adjacent grade points, the elevations of which are therein given, in feet above the City Directrix.

Section 7. That the Director of City Development is hereby authorized to execute and/or accept any and all agreements necessary to clear the title of any right of way, utility easements or other public property dedicated on the plat.

Section 8. That the City Clerk is hereby directed to record copies of this ordinance, together with the documents described herein and all other relevant documents, when the plat has been released for recording, together with the Cooperative Agreement for the Installation of Public Improvements, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jackson County, Missouri.

Section 9. That the Council finds that the City Plan Commission has duly endorsed its approval of this Ordinance hereon.

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Approved as to form and legality:

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Sarah Baxter

Assistant City Attorney