Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee
TL;DR
The Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee approved over $2.8 million in health department grants for HIV services, disease prevention, and childcare inspections. The committee also approved a pilot program to access federal HUD financing for community development projects aimed at removing blight, but rejected a rezoning proposal for an entertainment venue at Troost Avenue and East 5th Street.
Key Decisions
- HIV Case Management Grant ($1.58M) Passed
- Disease Intervention Specialist Program Grant ($419.7K) Passed
- HUD Section 108 Loan Guarantee Pilot Program Passed
- Rezoning at Troost Avenue and East 5th Street for Entertainment Venue Failed (Do Not Pass recommendation)
- Flora Avenue Rezoning for Accessory Parking 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
- HEALTH DEPARTMENT
- 260347 Sponsor: Director of Heath Department Accepting and approving a one-year $1,579,691.00 grant award with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to provide funding for HIV case management and other services for persons living with HIV within the eleven county Kansas City, Missouri Transitional Grant Area; estimating and appropriating revenue in the amount of $1,579,691.00; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date. Neighborhood Committee recommends “Advance and Do Pass.”OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council, due back on 4/16/2026. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 260348 Sponsor: Director of Health Department Accepting and approving a one-year $419,678.00 grant award with Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for a comprehensive Disease Intervention Specialist Workforce program; estimating and appropriating revenue to the sum of $419,678.00; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date. Neighborhood Committee recommends “Advance and Do Pass.”OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council, due back on 4/23/2026. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 260349 Sponsor: Director of Health Department Accepting and approving a grant award amendment from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention to provide additional funding to assist in workforce development and meeting public health foundational capabilities in the Kansas City, Missouri area; estimating and appropriating the additional sum of $739,567.00 in the Health Grants Fund for a total amount of $9,306,095.00; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date. Neighborhood Committee recommends “Advance and Do Pass.”OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council, due back on 4/23/2026. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 260350 Sponsor: Director of Health Department Accepting and approving a $101,574.00 contract with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to conduct childcare sanitation inspections in Kansas City, Missouri; estimating and appropriating $101,574.00 in the Health Grant Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date. Neighborhood Committee recommends “Advance and Do Pass.”OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council, due back on 4/23/2026. The motion carried by the following vote:
- CITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
- 260351 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Approving a major amendment to a previously approved urban redevelopment plan on about nine acres generally located on the northeast corner of East 63rd Street and Bushman Drive in District UR to allow for an entertainment venue. (CD-CPC-2025-00175). Neighborhood Committee recommends “Advance and Do Pass.”OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Sub Failed
Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Subto the Council due back on 4/23/2026
- 260352 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Vacating approximately 35,000 square feet of right-of-way in District M1-5 generally located on North Olive Street between Rochester Avenue and Nicholson Avenue; and directing the City Clerk to record certain documents. (CD-ROW-2025-00036)OrdinanceAction: Hold on Agenda
Hold on Agendato the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee due back on 5/5/2026
- COUNCIL
- 260359 Sponsor: Councilmember Wes Rogers RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to develop a plan to conduct a survey of Kansas City, Missouri businesses for FY 2026-27 for the purpose of identifying the importance of various issues to businesses and identifying expansion and retention plans of businesses in the future.ResolutionAction: Hold on Agenda
Hold on Agendato the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee due back on 5/12/2026
- 260362 Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to implement a pilot program for the purpose of securing financing through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program for eligible economic development and community development projects for the express purpose of removing chronic and long-term slum and blight and that compliment adopted policy such as the vacant land activation initiative; authorizing the pledge of some future Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds as security; and recommending requirements and a process to the City Council. Neighborhood Committee recommends “Immediate Adoption as a Committee SubstituteResolutionAction: Immediate Adoption as a Committee Substitute Passed
A motion was made that this Resolution be Immediate Adoption as Committee Substitute .. The motion carried by the following vote:
- HELD IN COMMITTEE
- 260056 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Rezoning an area of about 0.2 acres generally located at the southeast corner of Troost Avenue and East 5th Street from District UR to District B2-2 to allow for an entertainment venue. (CD-CPC-2025-00160) Neighborhood Committee recommends “Advance and Do NOT Pass.”OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Not Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Not Pass. to the Council, due back on 4/23/2026. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 260336 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Rezoning an area of about 0.15 acres generally located at 3112 Flora Avenue from District R-1.5 to District R-0.5 to allow the property to be used as an accessory parking area for the property to the west. (CD-CPC-2026-00011) Neighborhood Committee recommends “Advance and Do Pass.”OrdinanceAction: Adv and Do Pass Passed
A motion was made that this Ordinance be Adv and Do Pass. to the Council, due back on 4/23/2026. The motion carried by the following vote:
- 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