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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 030405
Approving and designating
Redevelopment Project 4 of the Pershing Road Tax Increment Financing Plan as a
Redevelopment Project and adopting tax increment financing therefor.
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 April
3, 2003, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 030401, which accepted the
recommendations of the Commission as to the Pershing Road Tax Increment
Financing Plan ("Redevelopment Plan") and designated the
Redevelopment Area to be a blighted area; and
WHEREAS, the
Redevelopment Plan and ordinance contemplate the implementation of the
Redevelopment Plan through eight (8) separate Redevelopment Projects and the
adoption of tax increment financing in each of the areas selected for such
Redevelopment Projects; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY
THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. All
terms used in this ordinance shall be construed as defined in Sections 99.800
to 99.865 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, as amended.
Section 2. The
area selected for Redevelopment Project 4 legally described as follows:
Commencing
at the intersection of the west right-of-way line of Main Street, as
established by Document No. K-495009, in Book k-1092, at page 1154, and
accepted by Ordinance No. 53181, passed August 17, 1981, with the northerly
right-of-way line of Pershing Road as established by the Ordinance of Kansas
City, Missouri No. 18372, approved February 5, 1914; thence South 72E2036 West, along said northerly right-of-way line, a distance of
566.92 feet; thence North 18E1102 West, a distance of
159.51 feet to the point of beginning of the herein described area; thence
North 18E1102 West, a distance of 401.71 feet; thence North
71E4858 East, a distance of 100.19 feet; thence North
18E1736 West, a distance of 260.39 feet; thence North
71E5042 East, a distance of 180.00 feet; thence North
18E1736 West, a distance of 0.29 feet; thence North 71E5117 East, a distance of 182.98 feet; thence South 18E0712 East, a distance of 348.73 feet; thence North 71E4858 East, a distance of 44.89 feet; thence South 18E1102 East, a distance of 47.71 feet; thence North 71E4858 East, a distance of 3.51 feet; thence South 18E1102 East, a distance of 9.22 feet; thence North 71E4858 East, a distance of 124.18 feet; thence South 18E1102 East, a distance of 61.24 feet; thence North 71E4858 East, a distance of 40.65 feet; thence South 18E2205 East, a distance of 48.41 feet; thence South 02E5139 West, a distance of 27.18 feet; thence South 12E4947
West, a
distance of 89.54 feet; thence South 18E0929 East, a
distance of 45.00 feet; thence South 71E5018 West, a
distance of 619.76 feet, to the point of beginning.
Together
with a strip lying between the north end of Union Station and a terminus in the
Freight House District for a pedestrian bridge link.
is approved and designated as
the Pershing Road Tax Increment Financing Plan Redevelopment Project 4
("Project 4").
Section 3. Tax
increment allocation financing is hereby adopted for taxable real property in
the above described area selected for Project 4. After the total equalized
assessed valuation of the taxable real property in Project 4 exceeds the
certified total initial equalized assessed valuation of the taxable real
property in Project 4, the ad valorem taxes, and payment in lieu of taxes, if
any, arising from the levies upon the taxable real property in such project by
taxing districts and tax rates determined in the manner provided in subsection
2 of Section 99.855 each year after the effective date of the ordinance until
redevelopment costs have been paid shall be divided as follows:
1. That
portion of taxes levied upon each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real
property which is attributable to the initial equalized assessed value of each
such taxable lot, block, tract or parcel of real property in the area selected
for Project 4 shall be allocated to and, when collected, shall be paid by the
Jackson County Collector and the City Treasurer to the respective affected
taxing districts in the manner required by law in the absence of the adoption
of tax increment allocation financing;
2. Payments
in lieu of taxes attributable to the increase in the current equalized assessed
valuation of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property in the
area selected for Project 4 over and above the initial equalized assessed value
of each such unit of property in the area selected for Project 4 shall be
allocated to and, when collected, shall be paid to the City Treasurer who shall
deposit such payment in lieu of taxes into a special fund called the
"Special Allocation Fund" of the City for the purpose of paying
Redevelopment Project Costs and obligations incurred in the payment thereof.
Any payments in lieu of taxes which are not paid within sixty (60) days of the
due date shall be deemed delinquent and shall be assessed a penalty of one
percent (1%) per month.
Section 4. In
addition to the payments in lieu of taxes described in subsection 2 of Section
3 above, fifty percent (50%) of the total additional revenue from taxes which
are imposed by the City or taxing districts, and which are generated by
economic activities within the area selected for Project 4 over the amount of
such taxes generated by economic activities within such area in the calendar
year prior to the adoption of this ordinance, while tax increment financing
remains in effect, but excluding taxes imposed on sales of charges for sleeping
rooms paid by transient guests of hotels and motels, licenses, fees or special
assessments and personal property taxes, other than payments in lieu of taxes,
shall be allocated to, and paid by the collecting officer to the City Treasurer
or other designated financial officer of the City, who shall deposit such funds
in a separate segregated account within the Special Allocation Fund.
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Approved
as to form and legality:
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Heather
A. Brown
Assistant
City Attorney