Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee
TL;DR
The Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee held a meeting focused on several rezoning proposals and development plans across various city areas. Multiple ordinances were passed to allow new residential, commercial, and utility development, with a notable emphasis on rezoning land for different uses and approving development plans.
Key Decisions
- Corporate Drive Rezoning for Outdoor Storage Passed
- Historic Northeast Lofts Brownfields Loan Amendment Passed
- Troost Avenue Utility Substation Rezoning Passed
- Review of Zoning and Development Code Passed
- Historic Building Maintenance Standards Review Passed
Agenda
- PUBLIC OBSERVANCE OF MEETINGS Members of the City Council may attend this meeting via videoconference. Any closed session may be held via teleconference. The public can observe this meeting at the links provided below. Applicants and citizens wishing to participate have the option of attending each meeting or they may do so through the videoconference platform ZOOM, using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84530222968 ***Public Testimony is Limited to 2 Minutes***
- FIRST READINGS
- 250923 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Rezoning an area of about 10.86 acres generally located on Corporate Drive, just north of the intersection with N. Cambridge Avenue from Districts UR and M3-5 to District UR and approving a development plan to allow for outdoor storage on the property. (CD-CPC-2025-00133)OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council, due back on 10/30/2025. The motion carried by the following vote:
- HELD IN COMMITTEE
- 250850 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Amending Ordinance No. 241051 conditionally approving the application of Historic Northeast Lofts, LLC, for a Brownfields loan to remediate Buildings Nos. 1 and 2 of the former Hardesty Federal Complex by repealing Sections 1 and 3 and enacting new Sections 1 and 3.OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 250858 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Rezoning an area of about 10.98 acres generally located at 8625 Troost Avenue B from District R-2.5 to District B1-1 to allow a mesh security fence with barbed wire to be installed around a utility substation at the site. (CD-CPC-2025-00091)OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council, due back on 10/30/2025. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 250871 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Rezoning an area of about 15 acres generally located at West 35th Street to the north, Pennsylvania Avenue to the east, Valentine Road to the south, and Summit Street to the west from Districts R-1.5, R-5, R-6, and UR to Districts R-1.5, R-5, R-6, UR /HO in order to designate the area as a local Historic District on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places. (CD-CPC-2025-00100).OrdinanceAction: Hold on Agenda
Hold on Agendato the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee due back on 12/9/2025
- 250875 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Approving a major amendment to a previously approved development plan on about 23 acres to allow additional permitted uses in District B3-2 generally located in an area abutting 150 Highway on the west, W. 135th Street on the north and W. 138th Terrace on the south. (CD-CPC-2025-00120)OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee, due back on 10/30/2025. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 250877 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Rezoning an area of about 4 acres generally located at the northwest corner of East 135th Street and Oak Street from District B2-2 to District MPD and approving a development plan which serves as a preliminary plat to allow for commercial and storage development. (CD-CPC-2025-00124).OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council, due back on 10/30/2025. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 250878 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department RESOLUTION - Approving an amendment to the Martin City Area Plan on about 4 acres generally located approximately 130 feet north of E. 135th Street, northwest corner of E. 135th Street and Oak Street by changing the recommended land use on the northern portion of the site from mixed use community to commercial for commercial and self-storage development. (CD-CPC-2025-00140)ResolutionAction: Immediate Adoption Passed
A motion was made that this Resolution be Immediate Adoption. to the Council, due back on 10/30/2025. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 250887 Sponsor: Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to review and recommend updates to Chapter 88, the Zoning and Development Code of Kansas City, Missouri in order to improve development processes and align them with current best practices.OrdinanceAction: Immediate Adoption as a Committee Substitute Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Immediate Adoption as a Committee Substitute. to the Council, due back on 10/30/2025. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 250908 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Rezoning an area of about 5.5 acres generally located on the east side of North Oak Trafficway at Northeast Hill Street from District B3-2 to District B3-4, and approving a development plan on approximately 8.5 acres to allow for multi-unit residential development. (CD-CPC-2025-00121 and CD-CPC-2025-00122)OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council, due back on 10/30/2025. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 250912 Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to develop minimum maintenance standards for historic buildings and make recommendations to Council within 60 days.ResolutionAction: Immediate Adoption Passed
A motion was made that this Resolution be Immediate Adoption. to the Council, due back on 10/30/2025. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 250913 Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to review best practices in peer cities related to potholes, evaluate policies in Kansas City, and make recommendations for policy improvements within 60 days.ResolutionAction: Hold off Agenda
Hold off Agenda
- ADDITIONAL BUSINESS
- The City Clerk`s Office now has equipment for the hearing impaired for use with every meeting. To check out the equipment please see the secretary for each committee. Be prepared to leave your Driver`s License or State issued Identification Card with the secretary and she will give you the equipment. Upon returning the equipment your license will be returned.
- Adjournment