ORDINANCE NO. 070493

Amending Ordinance No. 051205 by repealing Section 2 thereof and enacting in its place a new section, revising the legal description for Project 422 Admiral of the Civic Mall Tax Increment Financing Plan. 

WHEREAS, the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri by Ordinance No. 54556 passed on November 24, 1982, and thereafter amended in certain respects by Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 911076, as amended, passed on August 29, 1991, created the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City, Missouri (the "Commission"); and

  WHEREAS, on December 8, 1994, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 941589, which approved the Civic Mall Tax Increment Financing Plan and designated the Redevelopment Area as a blighted area; and  

WHEREAS, on March 3, 1997, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 970236, which approved the First Amendment to the Civic Mall Tax Increment Financing Plan and designated an altered Redevelopment Area; and  

WHEREAS, on June 18, 1998, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 980654, which approved the Second Amendment to the Civic Mall Tax Increment Financing Plan and designated an expanded Redevelopment Area; and  

WHEREAS, on July 8, 2004, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 040706. which approved the Third Amendment to the Civic Mall Tax Increment Financing Plan and designated an expanded Redevelopment Area, including the 422 Admiral Project; and

WHEREAS, on October 6, 2005, the Council passed Ordinance No. 051205 approving Project 422 Admiral, the legal description of which requires revision; NOW, THEREFORE,

  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

  Section 1. That Ordinance No. 051205 is hereby amended by repealing Section 2 and enacting a new Section 2 in its place to read as follows:

  Section 2. The area selected for Civic Mall Redevelopment Project 422 Admiral is legally described as follows: 

 All of Lots 15 - 17, and the west 1/2 of vacated Locust Lane lying east of and adjacent, Block 8, Rice's Addition, except that part thereof now in Admiral Boulevard, a subdivision in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, according to the recorded plat thereof;

and

All of Lots 1-3 and the west 1/2 of vacated Locust Lane lying east of and adjoining Lot 1, Keyes Subdivision, a subdivision in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, according to the recorded plat thereof.

is approved and designated as Civic Mall Redevelopment Project 422 Admiral (the Redevelopment Project), effective October 16, 2005, (the Original Effective Date). The actions of all City officials and the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City, Missouri, in allocating, paying, depositing, receiving and/or disbursing payments in lieu of taxes or economic activity taxes for Civic Mall Redevelopment Project 422 Admiral, which have been approved after the Original Effective Date, but prior to the effective date of this ordinance, are hereby ratified and approved.

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  Approved as to form and legality:

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Heather A. Brown

Assistant City Attorney