COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 050718

Finding the Stuart Hall/HD Lee PIEA Planning area, as amended, to be blighted and in need of redevelopment; approving the First Amendment to the General Development Plan for the Stuart Hall/HD Lee PIEA Planning Area generally located on the north side of 22nd Street, between Central and Fort Scott Avenue, extending approximately 335 feet north, and on the north side of 22nd Street, between Wyandotte and St. Paul Avenue, extending north to 20th Street. and approving ad valorem tax benefits therefor.

WHEREAS, the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City, Missouri, (the Authority) adopted Resolution No. 823 on December 5, 2003, finding that the area described herein to be blighted pursuant to PIEA Law and recommending to the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri that said area be designated as blighted, unsanitary, or an underdeveloped industrial areas defined by section 100.310 (2), 100.310 (11), and 100.310 (18), RSMo, and  

WHEREAS, said area was declared to be blighted by the City Council through adoption of Resolution No. 031355 on December 18, 2003; and

WHEREAS, the Council approved the General Development Plan for the Stuart Hall/HD Lee PIEA Planning Area on June 3, 2004, by passage of Ordinance No. 040469; and

WHEREAS, on April 29, 2005, the Authority adopted Resolution No. 976, approving the First Amendment to the Stuart Hall/HD Lee PIEA Planning Area, finding the expanded area to be a blighted, unsanitary, or an underdeveloped industrial area defined by section 100.310 (2), 100.310 (11), and 100.310 (18), RSMo, and  recommending that the First Amendment be approved;

WHEREAS, the City Plan Commission has reviewed and recommended approval of the finding of blight for the area, as amended, and of the First Amendment to the General Development Plan for the Stuart Hall\HD Lee PIEA Planning Area on June 21, 2005 and has found said plan to be in conformance with the general plan for the development of the community as a whole; and

  WHEREAS, Section 100.400, RSMo, authorizes the Council to approve a general development plan after a designation of blight if the Council finds that the plan is feasible and in conformity with the general plan for the redevelopment of the community as a whole; and 

WHEREAS, the Council has determined that ad valorem tax exemption benefits as authorized in Section 100.570, RSMo are necessary to attract developers to the expanded area; NOW, THEREFORE,

  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Stuart Hall/HD Lee PIEA Planning Area, as amended, is hereby found to be a blighted, unsanitary or an undeveloped industrial area as defined by Section 100.310, RSMo.

  Section 2. That the First Amendment to the General Development Plan for Stuart Hall/HD Lee PIEA Planning Area, as shown in the plan and blight analysis dated March 21, 2005 and revised June 28, 2005, generally located on the north side of 22nd Street, between Central and Fort Scott Avenue, extending approximately 335 feet north, and on the north side of 22nd Street, between Wyandotte and St. Paul Avenue, extending north to 20th Street legally described as: 

Lots 9 through 19, inclusive, Block 23, Goodrich Addition, a subdivision of land lying in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, according to the recorded plat thereof; and

Lots 4 through 14, inclusive, Block 20, Goodrich Addition, a subdivision of land lying in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, according to the recorded plat thereof; and

Lots 1, 2, and 3, Block 20 and all of Block 27, Goodrich Addition, a subdivision of land lying in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, according to the recorded plat thereof; and also all that part of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 8, Township 49, Range 33, described as follows: Beginning 316 feet West of the Northeast corner of said Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter; thence running South 212 feet; thence West 158 feet; thence North 212 feet; thence East 158 feet to the point of beginning; subject to the rights of the public in the North 30 feet thereof taken for street purposes, in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, and

All of the street right of way for 22nd Street between Central and St. Paul Avenue, and

The South 10 feet of Lot 9, All of Lots 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, Block 21, Goodrich Addition, A Subdivision in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. 

is hereby approved. A copy of said plan is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference is Document No. 050___.

  Section 3. That the Council has duly made the findings necessary for compliance with Section 100.300-100.620 RSMo.

  Section 4. That said First Amendment to the General Development Plan for the Stuart Hall/HD Lee PIEA Planning Area is hereby found to be feasible and in conformance with the general plan for the development of the community as a whole.

  Section 4. That the ad valorem tax exemption benefits as authorized in Section 100.570, RSMo, are hereby extended to the plan area, as amended by the First Amendment, to the extent and in the manner as provided for in said General Development Plan, subject to the execution of a development agreement with the Authority.

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  I hereby certify that as required by Chapter 100, RSMo, as amended, all public notices have been given and public hearings held, as required by law. 

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Secretary, City Plan Commission

Approved as to form and legality:

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Heather A. Brown

Assistant City Attorney