City Plan Commission - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. I'm going to call the Neighborhood Planning Development Committee meeting to order. I am Chair, Mayor Pro Tem Raina Park Shaw. My colleagues will introduce themselves.

Eric Bunch, 4th District Vice Chair. Nathan Willett, 1st District.

Melissa Patterson-Hasleith, our District at Large. And staff.

Dow U.S. City Clerk's Office. Diane Binkley, City Manager's Office. Sarah Baxter, Law Department.

Travis Kiefer, Casey Water. Nicholas Bossanato, City Engineer. Kyle O'Leary, Kansas City Planning.

And we have Councilman Wes Rogers also in the chamber, 2nd District. All right, so we have several holds. We're going to hold 260376 until June 9th. 260399 until June 9th. 260400 until June 9th. 260401 until June 9th, and 260429 until June 9th. Anybody need me to repeat them? Okay. All right. Then we'll go ahead and move forward with the consents.

Ordinance number 260464, authorizing the manager of procurement services. I'm sorry, I'm on the wrong page. Ordinance number 260471, improving the plat of Country Shire, third plat, in addition to Jackson County, Missouri, and approximately two acres, generally located on the south side of Country Shire Lane, approximately 200 feet east on Booth Avenue, creating seven lots and one track for the purpose of legally establishing an existing residential development, accepting various easements, authorizing the director of city planning and development to execute and or accept certain agreements, and directing the city clerk to facilitate the recordation of this ordinance and attach documents. Ordinance number 260472, approving the flat of Central Bank Sporting Complex. In addition, in Platt County, Missouri, an approximately 77 acres being located on the north side of Highway 152, North Lane Creek Parkway to the west, and North Platt Purchase Drive to the east, creating one lot for the purpose of multipurpose sports complex. accepting various easements authorizing the director of city planning and development to execute and or accept certain agreements, and directing the city clerk to facilitate the recordation of this ordinance and attached documents. Ordinance number 260459, accepting and approving a one-year $125,944 grant amendment with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, to provide funding for a comprehensive HIV surveillance program, estimating and appropriating the sum of $125,944,000 in the Health Grants Fund, and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

These items are in accordance with state statutes and codes. We recommend approval.

Thank you, Director Kyle Elliott. Congratulations on your official promotion.

Appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. Is there any public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for Ordinance 260471, 260472, or 260459. No one appears by Zoom with the raised hand or in person to testify.

I'll entertain a motion.

Madam Chair, I move that ordinances number 260471, 260472, 260459 be reported out of the Committee of the Recommendation of Advancement to be passed and be placed on the consent agenda.

Second. Thank you. It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that motion carries. Thank you. Next, let's go to 260454. Council Member Patterson has this. 454?

Come back to me. Okay. I didn't realize it was going to be that long. That's okay.

Yeah, so we grouped these so we could maybe go through our agenda faster since we have so many. So next, let's go to 260441.

260441.

You didn't get this list?

I did.

You did, okay.

I just don't know what page it's on, sorry.

Okay, well maybe that's not, maybe that's not what it is.

Okay, it's solution number 260441, directing the city manager to increase indigent care funding in the amount of $140,000 for Swope Health Services as part of first quarter fiscal year 2026-27 budget analysis, and later quarters if necessary subject to availability of funds in the health levy fund.

Is there no presentation on this? OK. So this ordinance was, resolution was brought by Councilwoman Robinson.

Oh, she wants to hold this. Oh, okay. All right. I'm over here getting my slide deck to the floor and didn't hear you, so I apologize. Yes, both of Councilwoman Robinson's ordinances that she has on the agenda, she has requested a hold until we come back.

Okay, so... That would be Ordinance 260441 and 260442. There's a request to hold those for one week, which would be also held until June the 9th. Okay, thank you for that.

Sorry about that.

Councilman Rogers, are you ready? Ready. Okay, all right. Let's go ahead and take 260378.

And you do have a committee sub, that one.

Please read the committee, so thank you.

Committee substitute for ordinance number 260378 amending chapter 74 code of ordinances Kansas City redevelopment ordinance by repealing and replacing section 74302 to allow community improvement district using revenues for blight removal or capital improvements to have a term up to 27 years.

So this is an incredibly straightforward amendment. All it does is expands the universe of all CIDs to go from 20 years up to 27 years. Right now, over 90% of these are just for sales tax, and less than 10% are for special assessments. So it doesn't open up the universe very much. The state statute already allows us to do this, so we're simply moving it from 20 to 27 years on a very narrow set of sales tax revenues.

Is this the committee subs? Thank you. Okay, so the committee sub is being distributed. Thank you. All right, so it looks like in the committee sub language, ultimately it just provides a change in the title, removing the words, issuing special assessments to be used, and adding in using revenues. Yeah, so that's the only change that's in the committee sub. All right, any questions? All right, is there any public testimony?

Written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for this number for committee substitute 260378.

If you'll just state your name for the record, please.

My name is Claire Burns. I'm an attorney at Lewis-Rice, and I just want to speak very briefly in favor of the ordinance. It basically just puts all CIDs on an even playing field, and there's really no rational basis to limit it. So all the funds should be going to all the CREP news.

So that's it. Thank you. Any other testimony? Okay, I'll entertain a motion.

Mr. Madam Mayor, for 10 minutes, the Committee Substitute Board, number 260. 378 be reported out of committee with the recommendation of advance and do you pass?

Second. It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that motion carries. Thank you. All right. Let's go ahead and go back to the top of the docket, 260473.

ORDINANCE NUMBER 260473, APPROVING A WAIVER OF THE CODE 3-62 REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SIDE AND FIRST BUILDING RENOVATION LOCATED AT 935 BROADWAY BOULEVARD.

BEFORE WE START, I HAD AGREED TO BE A SPONSOR OF THIS WITH COUNCILMAN O'NEIL, AND THAT MAY HAVE JUST NOT BEEN CONVEYED, SO... WHEN THE CLERK COMES BACK. or sponsor of this.

All right. We'll let the record reflect Councilman Bunch as a sponsor.

Chris Stanley, Iconic Preservation, 140 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri. I want to thank everyone for this opportunity. I think people, this is the Seiden Fur Project at 10th and Broadway. This building is the oldest building in the downtown loop, built in 1874, which is actually 15 years old. before the city of Kansas City merged with Westport to become the city of Kansas City. Before that, it was the city of Kansas. This is a great example of what the city has done to help motivate a seller to basically that had a very dangerous building, a building that had the roof collapsed and was exposed to the elements over a five-year period. This was not just an eyesore, but this building was, the structural engineer said it could fail in a catastrophic manner at any time. And because of the city's efforts of placing it as a dangerous building and threatening to demolish it, I was able to purchase this building and begin to renovate it. The building, the interior was right out of a... horror show. The basement was flooded. There was 500 fur coats in the basement. The building reeked. We had dangerous water that we had to remediate and send to Mississippi. So over the stabilization When developers talk about sweat equity, I actually, it's a literal context of sweat equity. We stabilized the building with the help of the city. We removed 10 40-yard dumpsters of debris, 5,000 gallons of biohazard water. We had to brace the building to prevent it from collapsing. And now we have a tenant that is in place while we're doing, this project was approved by the Land Clearance Redevelopment Authority. The project is a small project. It's just under a million dollars renovation. So we have three apartments on the second floor and we have a tenant, a restaurant, Loretta Jeans, that is going to be going in the fall of this year with a speakeasy. And the request is a request to remove the prevailing wage requirement, which under the ordinance, it does have the exception for historic buildings to remove this requirement. requirement there are a lot of historic buildings and small projects like these have very unique challenges and cost is is definitely one of them but it's it is a very unique skill set of tradesmen to be able to renovate this this is not a this is the smallest project i've ever developed but it's probably the most important and it is not a financial windfall at all. This is a passion project. And again, I applaud the mayor, I applaud the city council for what they have done with ordinances to prevent nuisance buildings from really blighting other neighboring structures. And I don't think that it's a secret we've lost so many short buildings in our city, and that's the fabric that really makes our city unique. And it's no secret that developers often tear down historic buildings, wait two to three years so that tax base goes down to land value, and then they come before you to seek tax abatements to lock in those low tax rates. So I applaud the city council for the ordinances that they've been putting in place. And with that, I'd be happy to take any questions.

Thank you for the presentation. Do you all have any questions?

Go ahead. I'll just real quick say thanks to the team for recognizing the value of this. Sometimes it really does take a motivated property owner or future property owner, as it was when this first kind of came to light. So thanks for the work you've done to preserve a lot of historic buildings in downtown. I'm very supportive of this. I know it's a tricky, challenging thing. Glad to help out. And this is a good path for historic preservation versus some of the ones that we've seen not succeed. So again, listed as a co-sponsor eventually, hopefully. And we'll see, assuming this passes out right now, we'll see this on Thursday.

Thank you. So I did have a question in regards to the... What amount does this represent for prevailing wage? What's the financial impact of the prevailing wage being waived?

The financial impact would probably be anywhere from 20% to 25% cost increase from current. With historic buildings, the majority of the work is in labor. You have a lot more labor costs with historic buildings, and that's why this exception was put into the ordinance in the first place for small projects.

Yeah, I mean, definitely I'm, you know, concerned about waiving prevailing wage in that, you know, that allows and ensures adequately fair wages here in Kansas City. But it's my understanding, I believe, that this now falls under our newly approved ordinance that we just passed last week or whenever that was, can staff or somebody confirm that now this project would fall under the new guidelines? Can somebody confirm that for me? That was what I was told. It was my understanding that this, the line fall within the new guideline.

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the ordinance that you're referring to. I'm happy to look into that, if you would like, prior to council.

Okay. Dan Moy. Yeah, the development. The EDC one.

Sure. Councilman Dan Moy, Executive Director of LCRA, Vice President of the EDC. I think you're right. Under the new ordinance that was approved by council, the changes to code, I think for a mixed-use project, the threshold is now $3 million. So this would be well under that threshold.

Okay, that's what I thought.

So I don't even need to be here.

Say that again? Well, say that again? He said so he doesn't need to be here. I think that this happened before. This happened before.

So they're probably development agreement requires it, so we need to waive it.

But now that we've, so can we just notate that? I'd like to actually add that into the. ordinance, just that, and I don't have a printout and I can't get on the internet so I can't even articulate.

Do a whereas.

Yeah, add a whereas that just states that this actually is in alignment with the new code, new development code that was recently passed.

Perhaps Mr. Moy can help you with the whereas because he knows what you're talking about.

I don't want to claim to know the new code by heart, but I believe it does reference that mixed-use projects would have a threshold of $3 million for prevailing wage. And it did have one of the whereases, and that was that projects that were already in the pipeline were not included. But I think just for reference, it trues it up.

So we would need to reference the actual ordinance. Yeah.

Does anybody have internet access?

I don't. Am I the only one? I thought I was the only one. I don't have it.

I never do either.

Yeah, OK. Well, I guess the clerk does.

The ordinance that made the changes was 260-286. There you go.

All right, wonderful. Thank you.

Good job.

All right, so 260-286. OK.

think the advice is that you put this in the fact sheet as opposed to the ordinance as these new provisions would not be in effect if you just voted on them last week they're not in effect right now okay but by the time this one becomes effective it will catch up and so the fact sheet will

will, assuming there's no veto between now and the end of the day, the fact sheet will be true by the time you vote on this on Thursday.

Okay. Okay.

The staff could be directed to include that in the fact sheet.

Okay. Thank you. All right. All right. Is there any further discussion? Is there any public testimony?

No written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for ordinance number 260473. No one appears by Zoom with the raised hand or in person to testify.

I'll entertain a motion.

Madam Mayor, for a time, may I move that ordinance number 260473 be reported out of committee with the recommendation of advance to be passed. Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that motion carries. Thank you. All right, so let's, we can just go ahead and... Oh, down the agenda.

Okay. Ordinance number 260464 authorizing the manager of procurement services to execute a $153,567 contract with the community capital fund from previously appropriated funds to support and invest in a Hope Ambassador program for innovative and measurable community development that aligns with and strengthens the financial, human, and social capital of under-resourced neighborhoods in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.

Good morning.

Good morning. Good afternoon. Sorry. I'm sorry about that.

Good afternoon. Keeley Golden, Assistant Chief Procurement Officer. I also have with me Terry Winbush, Division Manager for the Community, Family, Health, and Education division with the health department.

Here we go.

OK. Contract EV4467 is a one-year project within the Community Capital Community Wellness Ambassadors Program. The funding for this contract is through the Community Capital Fund, and the contract authority was a solicitation waiver. There are no renewals permitted under this contract. The previous contract was a five-year project with a total spend of $460,000. For this one-year contract, the health department expects to spend $153,567. We do have representation from this supplier in the chambers with us today. And now Terry will provide more information on this program.

Good afternoon. I'd like to take a moment to kind of anchor with the Community Wellness Ambassador Program with Community Capital Fund support. As this contract is kind of in line with getting that program up and going, so our Community Wellness Ambassador Program is one of our most impactful community-driven public health initiatives because it allows the health department to reach residents through trusted community members that are already connected there. Within our most recent cohort, we have 19,000 community interactions, and of those 19,000, we had about 67% that were actually happening in person. So the work that they're doing is not only informational, it's relational as well, which is very valuable to us in the communities that we serve. Our ambassadors are helping to connect residents to health department services, mental health resources, chronic disease education, aging resources, and also a wealth of information and messaging that we want to get out from the health department into the community at Mass. With that, recruitment for the next cohort is actually still open citywide. We have plenty of citizens that are applying and are excited to keep this going. And our goal is to continue strengthening the ambassador presence across all council districts. With that, CCF is integral because they serve as the program's primary financial and community infrastructure partner. Their role helps us maintain not only clear expectations around ambassador participation, but also prompt stipend processing, documentation of community instances, and overall program accountability. These administrative pieces matter because the strength of the wellness ambassador is not only in the trust the ambassadors build, but also in our ability to track the reach that they are making out within our communities. CCF's established relationships with neighborhood associations, grassroots organizations, and historically underserved communities help us sustain the program responsibly, maintain momentum, and continue a proven model that's been working for the health department going on three-plus years. With that, I say... CCF has been a great partner and not only within our program but then within a multitude of health department initiatives and have been outstanding and we'd like to leverage that partnership to continue on with minimized error space as well as reduced inefficiencies and administrative burden. Thank you.

CCF would you like to stand to be recognized? Thank you, and we're happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. All right, any questions? Well, I just have to commend the excellent work of CCF and the Health Department. Thank you for the commitment. It's definitely making a difference in the community, and hopefully we will be able to expand and even provide additional support and resources to this in the future.

Thank you.

All right. Any public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the City Clerk's Office for ordinance number 260464. The point appears by Zoom with the raised hand or in person to testify.

All right, I'll entertain a motion.

I just wanted to second what you said about CCF and the great work they do in the community, and everything you lined up for us in the great summary. With that, I move that ordinance number 260464 be recorded out of committee with the recommendation to advance to do pass.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you very much. Thank you. We're going to take, I believe it's 260359. There's another one that Councilman Rogers has sponsored. Okay. Is that correct number? That's right. Okay, 260359.

Resolution number 260359, directing the city manager to develop a plan to conduct a survey of Kansas City, Missouri businesses for fiscal year 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.

that is literally almost the entire text ordinance it just directs the city manager to develop a plan to conduct a survey of businesses for the purpose of identifying the importance of various issues and identifying expansion and retention plans for businesses this is something we've done in the past but it's been several years be on the website last one was five years ago so I'm just asking that we resume that and get input from the businesses in our city.

Is there any public testimony?

No written testimony submitted to city office for resolution number 260359. No one appears by Zoom with the raised hand or in person to testify. Okay, I'll entertain a motion.

Yes, Madam Mayor Pro Tem, I move that ordinance number 260359 be reported out of committee with the recommendation of advance to be passed.

Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, thank you. Okay, so we'll go back to 465.

Ordinance number 260465, authorizing the manager of procurement services to execute two contracts in the amount of $500,000 each with qualified community-based organization, Arts Tech and Upper Room KC, to design, implement, and operate youth summer and after-school programming designed to reduce youth violence using previously appropriated funds.

Good afternoon again. Good afternoon. Keeley Golden, Assistant Chief Procurement Officer. I also have with me Rashid Junaid, Division Manager of the Behavioral Health and Injury Prevention Division of the Health Department. So contract EV3928 is a one-year contract for the Youth Summer and Afterschool Program. An RFP was issued on May 9, 2025, and closed on July 7, 2025. The competitive solicitation process included 12 offers, with two firms being selected, ArtsTech and Upper Room. The Health Department anticipates spending $500,000 this fiscal year with each of these selected suppliers. We did have, as I mentioned, 12 offers. These were Algorithm and Blues LLC, Arts Tech, Creative Imaginations, Greater KC Link Incorporated, Emanuel Family and Child Development Center, Entitled Learning, Lyrics Institution, Holman Athletic Performance, Matty Rhodes Center, Total Man CDC, and Youth Ambassador. Rasheed will introduce both awarded suppliers who will present on their programs. He will also be available for any program-specific questions.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Good afternoon.

As you know, violence amongst our youth is very concerning to us in Kansas City. The blueprint that we developed as part of the Health Department and Violence Prevention Strategies indicates that we need to provide youth services for our youth during the summer and also after school. We have here today Truquesha Smith from Arts Tech, and we'll start with her to come up and talk about some of the strategies they'll be deploying in terms with the youth this summer and after school. Trukeisha, come on down. I don't know why she's sitting way back there.

Always has to make an entrance, huh? Yeah, sure.

Good afternoon, everyone. Yes, my name is Trukeisha Smith, and I'm with an organization called Arts Tech. We serve 12 to 24-year-olds. We have some day programming. We have after-school programming. We also have summer programming. And so our basic goal this summer is Teens in Transition. Some of you may know of it. It's a partnership with the police department. That program will have over 40 young people who are selected from KCPS school district. high schools and they will come. We're excited. They're going to UMKC this summer. They'll do a number of other things. But the main goal is to try to prevent violence. We get a lot of the kids that have barriers to education, meaning their attendance rates are low. They're not actively involved. And what we've noticed after last year, what we noticed, three of our kids are actually going to college. Several of them are now employed at ArtsTech. Other ones are still exploring and discovering who and what they want to be. That's just one program. We're working on a build a PC program. What we found is, for those who know, we're arts and technology. And so our technology piece, we saw a lot of kids come in last year. And what resonated with me is many of them wanted to build PCs. and didn't have the capacity, well, we'll be supporting 20 young people this summer, a six-week program with an organization called Electro Mundo. They will learn how to build their own gaming PC, free of charge, but just providing these resources that our young people don't have. Thank you. Say anything else you want me to say? Okay, thank you. Thank you.

Now we'll call up a representative from Upper Room, Ms. Tanya Gilbert.

Good afternoon. My name is Tanya Gilbert, and I'm happy to represent Upper Room. We are in our 27th year of providing summer programming for kindergarten through eighth grade students in the greater Kansas City area. We will be kicking off our 27th year, June 1st. We have over 1,500 students already enrolled. We are happy that this year we will be having a STEM-focused area for all of our students, but we will also operate a middle school that is solely STEM-focused. And so students will receive instruction in Cool Kids Chemistry, as well as a local DJ that will teach coding. Upper Room provides eight weeks of summer programming for 10 and a half hours a day. Seven of those hours are academic instruction, followed by enrichment, field trips, and things of that nature. It is totally free to all of our families as well.

Thank you. Thank you. We're happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

So I don't have a question, but I just want to commend the organizations. I've had an opportunity to spend time at ArtsTech and talk with the young people, and I'm just grateful and thankful to ArtsTech for the work that you are doing, changing those youth's lives. In Upper Room, I'd have to share a testimony of my son. My sons were in the program, and while, just to be honest, they hated the reading, hated it, complained every day. But my son came to me last fall and said, Mom, I know I gave you a hard time about me going to upper room, but he was spending time with his friends who weren't in upper room, and he said, I see the difference that it made in my life, and he thanked me. So I thank you for the work that you were doing because it truly has made a difference in his life as well as countless other kids' lives over the 27 years. So thank you.

So what you're saying is the kids eventually thank you for the work?

They eventually come back and thank you.

We're still waiting for that, aren't we?

They got to hit 20-something, you know? All right, is there any public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the City Clerk's Office, Ordinance Number 260465. No one appears by Zoom with a raised hand or in person to testify.

I'll entertain a motion.

Madam Mayor Pro Tem, I move that this number 260465 be reported out of committee. The recommendation for advance, do you pass?

Second. It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. I can go to the next one.

Number 260469, authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a contract in the amount of with Rediscover for previously appropriated funds to operate the Kansas City Assessment and Triage Center and provide crisis intervention services for individuals experiencing mental health or substance use emergencies.

Good afternoon. Keeley Golden, Assistant Chief Procurement Officer. I have with me William Rain, the Financial Manager for the Health Department. Contract EV4424 is a one-year contract for the Kansas City Assessment and Triage Center, KCAT. I'm sorry. Hold on a second. Do we not have a quorum? I need to recuse myself.

I forgot. I serve on this board, too. I forgot. I need to recuse myself. So let the record reflect that I am recusing. I forgot. There's so much work I forgot.

Too many boards.

Can we proceed?

Please go ahead, yes.

Okay, I'll start over. That's okay. EV, contract EV4424 is a one-year contract for the Kansas City Assessment and Triage Center, the KCATC, and is awarded to Rediscover for a not to exceed contract of $1 million through a solicitation waiver. We have representation. They're not online, are they?

Okay.

They are here. Okay. So we have Rediscover with us in chambers if you'd like to stand and be recognized. That's good. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. And then William will provide more information on the KCATC program.

Thank you. Good afternoon. Rediscover will provide operations of the Kansas City Assessment and Triage Center. They provide triage intervention and referral services from law enforcement, EMS, and area hospitals. They connect those individuals to support with discharge plans. It's long and short of it. This is something that they've been doing over the last year. And this is a contract that we acquired from municipal courts. They've continued these operations over the last year, and these are funds from FY26 as an amendment to the FY26 budget that we're finally able to get to the contractor.

Great.

Thank you.

We're happy to answer any questions.

Right. Any questions, comments from our members of the committee?

Nope.

Hearing none, is there any public testimony for Ordinance number two six zero four six nine Testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for ordinance number two six zero four six nine No one appears by zoom with the raised hand or in person to testify Okay, I'm hearing no public testimony with I would entertain a motion Ordinance number two six zero four six nine report a committee the recommendation advance to pass second So moved and seconded. All those in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? The motion passes. Thank you very much. Thank you.

You can take the next one.

Ordinance number 260458, accepting recommendations. of the Central City Economic Development Tax Board reducing existing appropriations of the Central City Economic Development Sales Tax Fund number 2200 by 667,718 and appropriating the same reducing existing appropriations of the Central City economic development sales tax fund number 2200 by $2,150,380 and appropriating the same authorizing the director of housing community development to expend up to $2,150,380 from funds previously appropriated in the central city economic development sales tax fund and authorizing the manager of procurement services to execute various funding agreements in accordance to this ordinance.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon, committee chair, committee members, and staff. This is a two-part ordinance. The first part is accepting the board's recommendation for the Sanford B. Ladd School Redevelopment budget modification of $2 million. With their overall budget, this would be a leverage ratio of 9.49%. The second recommendation is East 27th Street Development Their modification request is for $150,380 for a leverage ratio of 47.65%. And both of these projects are residential projects. And for the second part of this ordinance, this is the board accepting a letter from the Ellenwood Properties LLC. We send in their CCD funds of $667,718. Thank you.

Any questions from the committee? Testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office. Warden's number 260458.

We have one person on Zoom.

Afternoon.

Good afternoon, my name is Iris Armstrong and I'm a member of the lab development team. I just wanted to say that we are very appreciative of the CCED and the council support for the lab project. And I'm here representing Asia Morse.

Thank you. There's no further testimony, entertain a motion.

That's the matter, Mayor Pro Tem. I move that ordinance number 260458 be reported out of committee with the recommendation by advance that you pass.

Second.

Second. It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that motion carries. Okay, Madam Clerk, on the next one, I will recuse on this one as well. Do you want, and I'm ready whenever you want me to come through. Okay. After this one? After this one. Okay.

The next one.

ORDINANCE NUMBER 260470, APPROVING THE 2026 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM, THE EMERGENCY SOLUTION GRANT AND HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS, AND INCLUDING REPROGRAMMING FUNDS FROM CDBG 2021 TO 2024 IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,470,098, AND HOME 2019 TO 2024 in the amount of $4,337,410, and authorizing submittal to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

All right, good afternoon, committee. My name is Dion Lewis. I am the deputy director of the Housing and Community Development Department. I'm here to present our 2026 annual action plan and our reprogramming funding as well. And so we are bound by a five-year consolidated action plan, which, in turn, we do our one-year annual action plan. And so the purpose of that five-year consolidated action plan is to support the development, maintenance, and revitalization of sustainable, stable, and healthy communities through equitable policies and programs aimed at improving housing neighborhoods and health care services in all areas throughout the city of Kansas City. this particular year we were funded or our entitlement included about $12.9 million which included around $7.6 million CDBG funds, $2.2 million of home funds, a little over $668,000 of ESG funds and approximately $2.3 million in In addition, we had our entitlement funding from our reprogramming, and that included about $2.4 million in CDBG funds and around $4.3 million in home funds, totaling about $6.8 million for reprogramming. Our programs are broken down by programs such as CDBG, ESG, HOME, and HOPWA. And they must meet, any of our projects selected must meet at least one of these national objective categories in each one of these respective programs. So CDBG, such as the principal benefit low and moderate income persons who own who earn at or below 80% of the area median income for ESG shelter excuse me emergency shelter renovation major rehab or conversion essential services or shelter operations. and for some examples for home and HOPWA funds must be used to assist low moderate income homebuyers and also funds are used to provide housing assistance and supportive services to low-income persons with HIV and or AIDS and their families. And so just kind of highlighting by program I just want to go over overall some numbers too we had about 88 applications that were turned in on time and of those 88 we collectively approved 59 of those applications which is around a 67% application approval and this breaks it down by category for CDBG which we have public services non-public services city home repair and economic development examples of the CDBG applications is estimated to have a total to benefit a total of 4,750 beneficiaries. Again we had 25 applications for public services specifically out of CDBG in which 14 of those applications were approved and for nonpublic services we had 32 applications in which 27 27 of those applications were recommended for approval. That total request is a little over $17 million in total requests, and then the total entitlements that we were given out was a little over $7.6 million. Here's a breakdown by district as far as applications, total applications and recommended and not recommended. I do want to note on here that districts wanted to also include citywide services. So that's why you might see some some numbers that look a little bit off because we include those in district wide applications. And so our 2026 or non public services is broken now as such as well and shows about a district. Also, please note that minor home repair and domestic violence shelters shelters provide services in multiple districts as well. All right, so 2026 ESG program category highlights. Wanted to really highlight that we had a total of 12 applications with nine recommendations. Again, the estimated total beneficiaries include about 886. And then our ESG entitlement in total was a little over $668,000. For our home program, total housing created was going to be 96 units, and it's broken down with nine of those units being transitional, 18 having permanent supportive housing, and we're having about 267 units potentially served in terms of services. And then we had a total of five applicants and five recommendations of this funding as well. We do have a significant amount of money going to our unhoused and rental assistance TBRA. That also is assisting with our gateway program. So for our HOPWA program categories, we have four applications and we have four approvals. So the total household served is 172. We have 10 for emergency housing assistance, seven for transitional, 20 for permanent, and then 135 for tenant-based rental assistance. Again, that entitlement is a little over $2.3 million. Just an overall overview of our contracting process. We are bound by that section 74-2, but we also have a housing policy to contract within 12 months. And then we give the projects that are within the development three to five years to complete the project per ordinance section 74-12. Our annual action plan timeline is as shown. We started off in January 2026. We ended up having a deadline for applications in March 10th, 2026. We compiled recommendations in April, submitted recommendations to city manager and also made public published, made notices public in April of this year as well. And then we are anticipating submitting this to HUD by next week so we can start our 45-day review period. And then I know we're going to have some public comments, but do we have any questions from the committee? Welcome.

Any questions or comments from members of the committee?

I do want to say one last thing. I want to give a shout-out to my team. They've been working hard since the beginning, and they did a great job as far as collecting applications, scoring, and throughout the whole process. So I'm very proud of them, and I thank them for their hard work. All right.

Thank you. All right. It looks like we do have some public testimony. I've got quite a few cards here. So we're just going to start off the top. I'm going to read the first three each time because we do have several. The first is going to be Christina Jasso from and then followed by Alexis Delaney and followed by Jennifer Strickland. and just approach the mic and announce yourself.

Good afternoon. I just wanted to let everyone know, Christina Hasso, Director of Family Support with Guadalupe Centers, and just wanted to give our appreciation to the funding that we receive annually and hope that we'll get the amount that was recommended this year. Our intent is to assist 250 families You can hear me, right? Oh, gosh. I wanted to also point out this year we've had a huge increase in families just looking for basic food. With the big beautiful bill that was unfortunately passed, $186 billion reduction in food stamps to families has made a huge problem for the families that we serve. We serve all families in every single council district in all six districts. And 93% of our families are at 93% average median income, which is for a family of four, that's $33,400 a year is what they're earning. And we are appreciative to the money that we get to help these families that are looking at housing deficits, evictions, utility disconnects, but we've had a huge increase in just basic food. So we appreciate the help that you all give us.

Thank you.

Any questions? Thank you.

Thank you. Alexis Delaney, Jennifer Strickland, and Faith Allen.

Alexis Delaney, Vice President of Early Education with Guadalupe Centers. Just wanted to thank the committee for their consideration and the increase for our program. We are now at a new location, Thomas Roke, and we're able to serve for the first time in our history, 40-some-year-old history of our preschool, serving toddlers now. And at a new location, we're reaching a different demographic. And I'm proud to say that we have continued to grow in not only the number of children served, but also in developing our dual language program. We recognize that from the research that children who have a dual language environment do better in school academically. So we're creating the foundation here at our program and we have done a recent at a conference, we did a presentation about our development, and we're very proud to say that we continue to grow in the quality that we have, and we have quite a number of wait-listed children in our Head Start program. We're not exclusive to Head Start, but we want to be able to get back to our pre-pandemic numbers and serving other families as well. So again, We just want to recognize the work of the committee and thank you for your support.

I need to come back for story time again. Jennifer Strickland, Faith Allen, Janet Baker.

My name is Jennifer Strickland, and I'm the Director of Development and Community Relations with POSPERITY. We're the only nonprofit dog grooming school of its kind in the country with a mission to end generational poverty. And we do that through our seven-month workforce training program. along with wraparound services, including a housing component, which for us is imperative to our students' long-term success and financial independence. Our school, which is accredited nationally, is located at 58th and Troost, and our students are mostly single moms, unfortunately coming from situations like domestic violence and addiction. All of them are reporting facing housing needs. So we're addressing this employment barrier and homelessness in two ways. And we do that by referring some of our students to community partners for eviction prevention and stabilization assistance. And additionally, we own and operate a six unit apartment residence that's two blocks away from our school. And that includes private family suites and shared community spaces along with an on-site case manager that's there to support those specific students. Our results for our housing program speak for themselves. 83% of housed participants complete our program, which is 12% higher than our average. And our yearly independent evaluation conducted by UMKC also shares that our participants increase their annual average income from when they start in our program at only $8,300 a year, growing to $43,000 when they graduate our program with much room for growth. So we just, as with all other nonprofits who are here today, want to thank you for your consideration and potential support. Thank you.

Thank you. Next up, Faith Allen, Janet Baker, Naeem Alameen.

Good afternoon. My name is Faith Allen. I'm the pastor of Jameson Memorial Temple CME Church, and I want to thank you. Our proposed project organization is Jameson Temple Community Development Corporation, and the proposed project is Jameson Housing on the Boulevard. which is a continuation of the Jameson housing on the boulevard that we have, which provides affordable housing. And for such a time as this, this is a much needed affordable housing in our communities, in our neighborhoods. So I thank you for your consideration as we come forth to be able to fulfill our mission and our vision of providing housing, affordable housing in our communities. Thank you so very much for your consideration.

Thank you.

All right, Janet Baker, Naeem Alamein, and York Wilson.

Good afternoon. My name is Janet Baker. I serve as executive director of Kansas City Shepherd Center, and we too are grateful for the staff recommendation and the support. Kansas City Shepherd Center is the only nonprofit organization that has been exclusively serving older adults in Kansas City, Missouri for 54 years. we brought meals on wheels to kansas city and have been providing that daily well check and a hotmail ever since as well as our other programs we serve more than three thousand older adults each year and thirty one percent of our clients do not have so that's a thousand clients do not have access to the internet yet benefits enrollment health care portals and more require technology Nearly half of our clients live in Kansas City, Missouri, zip codes with poverty rates two times the state and national averages. 70% are extremely low income, most living on less than $20,000 a year. 73% rely solely on Social Security. 82% of our clients don't drive, 71% don't have a caregiver, all are Medicare eligible, 36% are on Medicaid. About twice that number are eligible for Medicaid but need help registering in benefits enrollment programs. More than half of our clients are renting and of those, 51 of them are extremely or somewhat worried about losing their housing in the next three months. And that's where Shepherd Center steps in. Our intensive in-home and case management services provide the benefits counseling, the access to public benefits that our older adults are, for which they're eligible. We mirror the national best practice model of a benefits enrollment center. There are 90 of those in 40 states across the country, but none in Kansas City. So Kansas City Shepherd Center steps into that gap without any funding to do so. With our CDBG funds, we will target zip codes 64128, 64130, 64131, and 64132 with intensive case management services to prevent them from becoming homeless. As we know that if they can leverage their funds and benefits from other sources, it allows more for living. expenses.

Thank you. Two minutes is up. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much for your support.

All right. Naeem Alamein, York Wilson, and former Councilwoman Deb Herman.

Good afternoon, Council. How are you all doing today? Doing well? Doing great. Awesome. Better now that you're here. Cool beans. It's a hot chocolate day, so I'm doing well. But my name is Naeem Alamein. I'm here to speak in support of the CBDG grant and highlight the work that Strategic Workforce Development is doing. And so strategic workforce development's approach to workforce development is this build it KC pre-apprenticeship program. However, they're expanding their services to include entrepreneurship, AI innovation lab, and also a CDL training. And they elevate the status of real people. And what I mean by that is, as most of us will enjoy returning to a full family unit or a middle class lifestyle, our clients return to poverty, dysfunction, violence, And within that, they're showing up and looking to elevate the status of themselves through our program. And so this grant will help us do that, and we want to help ensure that they win. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

York Wilson, followed by Deb Herman.

Hello, how's everybody doing? My name is York Wilson. I'm representing Strategic Workforce Development. Mr. Naim has just spoke about the wonderful things we're doing, which I want to highlight is SWED's innovative AI lab that we're putting right now in the third district, and we're putting one in the sixth district. This AI lab will actually bring AI awareness to our community that will be left behind. We also have a breakthrough that we also develop our own software. So this software right here, we have AI, teaching AI, which makes this affordable but also helps with awareness and it basically helps with the transition for the community to see the great things that AI is going to do.

Great. Thank you. Thank you. All right. The Honorable Deb Herman.

Thank you. Thank you very much. I keep my comments very, very quick. I want to thank all of you. And I want to thank Mr. Lewis, also Blaine Proctor. The rest of the staff, which I start listing their names, I would get them messed up. But they're very helpful. Also, there's three of our staff here. It's Shannon Garcia. I'm going to get their names goofed up. Nathan Scott and Clifford Mayer are our home repair people, very interested in keeping these programs going. I do want you to know, if you don't, that last year we continued to raise money, we continued to work, and we turned those dollars that you gave into us almost three times the amount of dollars that went into the community for home repair. These are all for low-income people desperate for help, and it's one way that we can make the biggest difference we make. I do appreciate all of you And thank you for your service. Thank you.

Thank you. Are there any others who wish to speak before the committee? So just please approach the mic and introduce yourself.

Good afternoon. My name is Netta Parks-Davis. I'm the executive director for Community Assistance Council. We are getting ready to celebrate 50 years in the South. We have been one of the cornerstones that have been assisting families there. We were fortunate to receive funding from this last funding cycle from CDBG. Just to give you guys a couple of the numbers. In our first quarter, we spent over $30,000 in helping families to stay in their home. We've served over 1,700 children with diapers from Happy Bottoms. Our pantry has doubled in size, so we're serving over 1,500 families in the first quarter of this year alone. The funding that we received from CDBG has allowed us to do that and also allowed us to expand our programming to where we now offer behavioral health services along with maternal child and domestic violence. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Christy Smith. I'm the Director of Operations for Hope Faith, and just on behalf of Hope Faith Homeless Assistance Campus, I wanted to say thank you, not only for the previous CDBG funding that we received to reduce showers, to increase the dignity happening in the houseless community, but wanted to thank Dion and the Division of Unhoused Solutions for their continued partnership through ESG, CDBG, being able to continue to bring dignity to the community for those who are experiencing houselessness.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Eric Berg. I am the Director of Housing Development for Catholic Charities of Kansas City St. Joseph. And like somebody before me, I wanted to express our appreciation. We were fortunate to receive CDBG grants for two of our properties that are here in Kansas City, Tremont Place, which is up in the Northland, and for Red Bridge Place, which is on the south side of Kansas City. These are two, if you're familiar with Catholic Charities, It's been around for 147 years here in the heart of Kansas City, serving those who need the most help. Housing is part of many services that we offer, and these are two senior properties. So these investments of funds are coming at a great time, because we maintain these properties well, but we're going to use that, reinvest it, and take care of some of our larger ticket items that are simply coming up on some 30-year-old properties. Really appreciate it. Looking forward to putting this money to work and keeping housing affordable in Kansas City. MR. Great. Thank you.

Do we have any others who wish to provide comment? Do we have any online?

MS. There's no one online.

MR. All right. I think that concludes our public comment period. Unless there are further questions or comments from members of the committee, I'd entertain a motion at this time.

I move that ordinance number 260470 get out of committee with a recommendation to advance and do pass.

And I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor please indicate by saying aye. Aye. All opposed?

And I believe that motion passes. All right, thank you. Community impact, results driven. Thank you all for your support.

Let's take 26045.

26045. I'm sorry, maybe that's the wrong thing.

We're going to force of are we just going down the list? No, I was going to take mine.

Well, I was gonna take Matt, uh, uh, somebody.

Okay, 454.

Okay, go ahead with 45.

So we'll go back. She was at the top of the 454.

Yes.

It was at the beginning. It's the last page. I'm sorry. It was at the beginning of this list.

It's the beginning if you go the opposite direction.

Resolution number 260454, directing the city manager to evaluate city housing programs and policies to ensure they do not unintentionally exacerbate the concentration of poverty and to recommend strategies that promote diverse housing access. neighborhood stability and balanced economic development investment throughout Kansas City and report back to the City Council within 90 days.

Hello. Good afternoon, committee members. My name is DJ Yearwood, Office of Councilwoman Patterson-Hasley. Presenting on Resolution 260454, I will make this brief. Councilwoman Patterson-Hasley is introducing this ordinance, or this resolution, sorry. as a means to create an official policy mechanism for requiring the review of where housing related resources and programs are being deployed and whether they are reinforcing existing poverty patterns. Many of you have heard the Councilwoman speak to those patterns and the CITY'S HOUSING PROGRAMS SUCH AS HOUSING GATEWAY OR THE HOUSING TRUST FUNDS EXECUTION. AND SO THIS RESOLUTION WOULD REQUIRE CITYWIDE REVIEW BEFORE ADDITIONAL HOUSING-RELATED PROGRAMMING DEEPENS EXISTING INEQUITIES. IT WOULD LOOK AT WHETHER PROGRAMS ARE SUPPORTING STABILITY WITHOUT CONCENTRATING POVERTY IN ALREADY UNDER-RESOURCED NEIGHBORHOODS. AND IT WOULD PUSH THE CITY TOWARDS BALANCED INVESTMENT, MIXED INCOME ACCESS AND LONG-TERM NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH. The concern here is that even the city's well-intended programs can create unintended harm, and so obviously recognizing that we must address the unhoused crisis in Kansas City housing insecurity, but making sure that The long-term impact of those decisions don't affect schools, health, safety, mobility, and wealth building in a negative way. And then making sure that the housing solutions that are being considered are equitable. So this seeks to address the concentration of poverty. I want to reiterate that the legislative intent is to support housing stability, promote diverse housing across council districts, strengthen neighborhood stability instead of overburdening areas that are already carrying the weight of disinvestment, and balance affordable housing investment with broader economic development investment. So the city manager must review other city programs, I already mentioned this, and then report back within 90 days on statistics on affordable and deeply affordable rental development patterns, statistics on affordable and deeply affordable rental availability patterns, recommendations to prevent future city policy from concentrating poverty, and strategies to interrupt the cycle of concentrated poverty while still meeting urgent housing needs. That's all.

Go ahead. Yes, thank you, Madam Chair, Madam Mayor Pro Tem. So what the resolution is and is not, it's not a halt to housing assistance. It doesn't suggest that we should stop with our homelessness response or any affordable housing work that we are doing. But it does ask for the city manager and his staff to review our existing policies and to implement strategies that prevent us from furthering the economic uh development patterns in the third district and perhaps other districts as well because while the third district is experiencing over representation of rental deeply affordable transitional housing, that means that that type of access is not available in other places. And so my recommendation is the manager also looks at development patterns that do not diversify housing to the higher end of the market in the same way I'm asking for housing policy to be evaluated where it's concentrating the lower end of the market. And the reason why I went this far with a resolution is because I have mentioned it several times for the last two years since I've been elected. And I don't feel like the gravity of the situation is really making it through just by my commentary. Maybe I'm not articulate enough. And so I really want... a presentation of the findings of this resolution in a business session so that we can have a real conversation about the type of economic development that's happening in the third district. Even after I've talked about the concentration of poverty, I still have staff recommending projects that will further exacerbate the situation in the third district, which further leads me to believe that my commentary, just by my words, is not enough. So we need other types of projects being proposed, other types of investment being made, and we need to not continue the pattern of historic redlining, which is what is happening. The third district and the whole east side was redlined, and that means we were targeted for rental properties instead of home ownership, and so you see an over-representation of rental properties. But that's not something that we should continue to do. We should be trying to interrupt that cycle, and that's what this resolution is trying to accomplish.

So as I saw the presentation, it occurred to me that one suggestion that maybe they could look at in this nightmare, whatever the time frame is, is making... a change to the docket memo. Because you know in the docket memo there are questions that have to be answered And so maybe, you know, as we are identifying, as we're reviewing any housing option, any housing legislation in the future, if it becomes a requirement in the docket memo that you have to say, that we have to, you know, staff has to evaluate and say whether or not this is concentrating poverty or whatever that language is, that may be something that will force the process. I think you've done a good job of articulating that over the last two years. I think the issue is, you know, what does the process look like to do it? What does that really look like? Yeah, what's the functionality of the issue? What does it really look like? And so I would just offer that as a recommendation as they are evaluating this, that based upon whatever the findings are, you know, one solution could be incorporating that into the docket memo. And that's what makes it easier for us to evaluate and say yes or no. I was listening to Finance this morning and I heard Councilman Duncan talk about the 6th District and how, you know, if there are individuals who work on the plaza or work in the 6th District, or any district for that matter, that many times there's housing that they can't afford. So I think, you know, the... I mean, yeah, so, you know, there are other issues I think that need to be addressed or reviewed, and maybe this is a way to help us to get to where we need to be as a city. So anyway, just a suggestion there.

Yeah, I think that if Ms. Binkley caught that suggestion and added it to the fact sheet or the docket memo, yeah, and I think, you know, that's also policy One thing that could come of this is policy, for example, with the Housing Trust Fund. So the Housing Trust Fund is asking for 60% AMI and below, and they're also asking for deed restrictions, sometimes up to 30 years. And in the scorecard, it advantages projects that have transitional housing. And so if you have a lot of the infield properties available in the third district and you have a lot of the rental properties available in the third district, then it would naturally just flow that direction, even if you're not trying to do it. And so I think we should also look at geographic policy. So if you know that you've done 1,500 60% in deeply affordable housing already over the last seven years, and then if you can evaluate what type of housing is available, then how many units do you need to provide that mix? so that you're getting a cross section of American society and not a particular section of American society. So maybe they can look at even the policy within the granting organizations, even CDBG. So we saw a lot of CDBG projects and what types of housing projects are. Now I know CDBG has some federal guidelines where you don't have a lot of You don't have a lot of flexibility but our own, we do have flexibility. So if you know you're putting CDBG and we should not disinvest, we should invest differently. I want to be clear about that because I definitely still do need the money to do the projects but just the investment needs to be tweaked right now.

Yeah, I'm 100% behind this conceptually here. I'm just curious, do we have a baseline? I think we all inherently know that we're concentrating poverty all the time, or historically it has been. If you just look at the HOLC redline maps, you can see that. But do we have like hard data on that or is that what the resolution is going to ask for?

That's what the resolution is going to ask for. So some of that data we can get like if we look at, you know, median income, you know, life expect, I mean some of that stuff you can get from census data.

Yeah, the ACS data definitely.

But I'm really talking about, Where are we building what?

Right. And that is my question is do we have a baseline on where we're building or adding sort of the low income or subsidized or public housing units and what the trend has been over and hopefully that's something that will come out of the resolution.

I mean, not to my knowledge. I think that if we, like for example, I requested data about the housing trust fund and I got that back within 48 hours, 72 hours. But I don't think contextually it's put anywhere, not through the fault of anybody. I just think it's not something we do. When I was on the LCRA board, I was on there for like four years or three years. And even I noticed that all of the stuff we was approving in armor and truce area was all market rate.

Yeah.

And I just don't think we conceptualize it like, oh, are we maybe building too much expensive housing and do we need to put some affordable? I don't think we necessarily look at it like that. And so that's what I'm trying to ask staff to start to consider across the projects because they come to you one by one by one. You know, we get them every three or four months. It's a new tranche.

aggregate yeah so I'm wondering if you know I'm thinking of we've historically had a contract with with the company my sidewalk who does data dashboards this might be I mean obviously the ACS data is pretty easy to come by that's publicly available but what might be really interesting is looking at a story map or or or my sidewalk dashboard that shows what the trend has been over the last where have units of some sort been built and show how the concentration or lack of concentration of poverty has changed. I think this is vitally important. I think I'm just kind of curious which direction it's going to go and How much hand holding? Because it could be a lot of work.

So I ask for maps all the time. I usually go, I usually start with Andy Clark. And I ask for a map and he's like, okay, do you want it static or do you want it live? And I don't want to give him more work, but I would be hesitant to hire, you know, on my sidewalk because it could be... some sort of mapping exercise if you can put in addresses from an already existing spreadsheet. And now, Kyle, I'm getting into GIS and talking over my skis, but maybe you can talk about that. And our brilliant data person from the health department, so I'm probably really looking not that brilliant with y'all in here.

Yeah, with my time with housing and in the planning department, we've taken most of the HUD data and some of the other data, and we've made it where it can be represented on maps. These are things we anticipated we'd want to do with it as well. So most of which is suggesting we have some of the recent data. The more historic stuff may be more challenging, but we can definitely get census data. And I will pass along, Mr. Clark, the kudos. He usually passes those to Tim Esparza, who makes most of the maps for us.

There's another person in the mix. And I want to be careful too, ACM Binkley, because I know you'll probably have your hands on this, is I don't want to go too back far in history. The story about redlining can start 40 years ago or 50 years ago and then we get lost in what is our responsibility now when you start the story so far back. And so you, I really want to start the story probably when housing trust fund came into existence. So 10 years, seven to 10 years, to keep it in context so that, I mean, what I see is we're telling a story that's in a book, but we're very much involved in it as we speak. So I wanna be careful on the timeline.

Sure, and I think the data will be, I think we have good data for that timeframe, right, versus going too far back. Also, there is a housing needs assessment that we're working towards right now, so that'll be another piece that we'll be able to help this. Not in the 90 days, of course, because it takes longer, but it is another component to this long term. But yeah, the team's already, they knew this was coming, so they've been starting to strategize, but the conversation here is very helpful.

And if I may, we, thanks to the work of Mayor Pro Tem last term or at least the anti-displacement resolution or anti-displacement plan is perhaps the sort of the inverse of this where we're concentrating We're concentrating wealth in those cases, but the two things really go hand-in-hand, even though they are the inverse of each other, so there may be some things to glean from that to help sort of smooth that out. But where we're choosing to invest in subsidized housing, and I'm using subsidized housing very broadly here, that is a policy decision, and I think that we should be guided on because... Every time that there's a discussion on where to put something, like a new low barrier shelter, for example, it gets added to somewhere in the third district or in downtown. And so we continue to see this concentration. It's not that I'm not speaking for you, but I'm going to speak for my district, which has a lot of social services, particularly in the historic Northeast. I think we sometimes feel overburdened by that, and that's not because we're being nimby-ish about it. It's that the concentration, it does have a negative effect on the people around them, but also them, like those communities themselves. So I'm very glad that you brought this forward and happy to support, but it sounds like a lot of data collection is in our future.

And then policy making as what, you know, what are the policy recommendations based upon what we found so that it's actionable, kind of like how you all did with the vacant land activation initiative. There was ordinances flying immediately, so we need to have some policy direction too and not just sit on it.

Yeah, we'll have implementation items as part of that piece that comes back.

And the anti-displacement plan, for example, had a lot of like zoning things. One of them was the parking minimums. And so, yeah, like when you get some recommendations, all of a sudden you can sort of see with some level of clarity these ordinances that need to be adopted. So I think that will definitely come out of this. So thanks.

Yep, thank you. All right. Public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for ordinance number 260454. No one appears by Zoom with a raised hand or in person to testify.

We won't get any. Okay, I'll entertain a motion.

Yes, Madam Mayor Pro Tem. I move that resolution number 260454 be reported to our committee with the recommendation to advance and to pass.

Second. been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Do you know where we are? Let's see. Go back to the 477, I think.

477? Yeah, that's what I have. Ordinance number two six zero four seven seven vacating right-of-way access to the city's needs in Jackson County Missouri and upon the effective date of this ordinance the city clerk is hereby directed to record said ordinance in the office of the recorder of deeds for Jackson County, Missouri Good afternoon Mayor Pro Tem and members of the committee name is Nicholas Boston Edo City engineer with Public Works and

So today, we have an ordinance 260477. This is an extra right-of-way that we're getting rid of. Back in about 40 years ago, 1987, we acquired some right-of-way to build the bridge that carries West Penway or Broadway over the railroad. That bridge, of course, was built 40 years ago. So when we acquire right-of-way, Property rights or a bundle of rights the the property still belongs to a private entity We just took right away and it over the last 40 years. It's been a complicated process You know determining what uses that private property owner can use so basically all we're doing is cleaning up doing sort of a clean clear title for for the property only by removing the Excessive right-of-way that is not needed anymore We are retaining the right-of-way underneath the bridge and within five feet of the bridge so we can maintain it but otherwise There's no necessity for it so Okay, all right, thank you any questions for a committee a public testimony

There's no written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for ordinance number 260477. No one appears by Zoom with a raised hand or in person to testify.

I'll entertain a motion.

Yeah, Madam Mayor, per tem, I move that ordinance number 260477 be reported on committee with the recommendation of advance to be passed. Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Thank you. Thank you.

Ordinance number 260475, approving the Prospect-Hickman-Mills vision plan, generally bounded by 75th Street to the north, Bruce R. Watkins Drive to the east, 87th Street, Blue River Road to the south, and the Paseo to the west.

Good afternoon.

Let's go ahead and just start talking. You can just go ahead. We'll ask the questions we need.

Good afternoon. My name is Lauren Young, 5th District Community Planner. And with me, I have Brian Jackson from Wilson and Company. And we will be presenting on Resolution 260475, the Prospect Hickman Mills Vision Plan. So background for this plan is it was spearheaded by the Marlboro Community Coalition, which is the neighborhood group in this area, and they applied and were awarded PIAC funds for this planning process. The study area on the map you can't see is 75th Street to the north, Bruce R. Watkins Drive to the east, 87th Street and Blue River Road to the south, and then the Paseo to the west. And then this planning area includes Prospect Avenue, south of 75th Street, and Hickman Mills Drive, which are the key corridors of this plan. So the purpose and approach of this plan, the community applied for this money to improve Prospect Avenue and Hickman Mills Drive and to build off the momentum of the Prospect as equitable transit-oriented development plan, as well as the Safe Streets for All improvements that have occurred north on Prospect to create a safer, more vibrant, and economically resilient corridor. A quick overview of timeline, phase one included a comprehensive analysis of existing conditions, which is baseline understanding of the area. Phase two focused on engagement, and then phase three was translating both the technical understanding and the community input into actionable recommendations to achieve the vision. This plan advances all 10 of the KC Spirit Playbook's goals. I won't go into detail, but it does advance all 10. And it also is an extension of the Swope Area Plan. So it applies the larger goals of the Swope Area Plan to the smaller geography of the Marlboro area. There was a few existing condition maps. I can just go over them quickly. One of them was a map of the multiple high injury network segments along Prospect and Hickman Mills Drive in this area, which just highlight the importance to use traffic calming in our plan. And then additionally, the crash report data from the intersection of Prospect Avenue and Hickman Mills Drive and 81st Street, which have two fatal crashes crashes, serious injury crashes, et cetera. Again, just highlighting the importance for traffic calming. Then finally, there was a map of the sidewalk gaps in this area, the very center of the planning area.

I've actually been, she's been talking, waiting on the download.

Yeah.

I mean, it is online. Thank you for online, but I've been waiting on the download. I still have 20 seconds left.

That's okay, I'll just finish about it. Yes, this last slide, or this last map was just the sidewalk gaps in the area, which show the limited walkability and connectivity of the planning area. This page would have been the engagement summary, so the second phase of this planning process was the engagement, and it was extremely important for us to understand what exactly the community wanted. We spent most of our planning process in this phase doing multiple types of outreach. It was kind of a build your own plan, so we started with a really wide scope and let the community determine what direction we wanted to take it. And we recorded 17 instances of engagement over the course of the year, which included a community walking tour, pop-ups in open houses, as well as our engagement consultant, Hoxie, they went door to door to engage every resident and make sure they knew that this planning process was going on. Some key issues identified by the community that came out of the engagement were inadequate storm water management, illegal dumping and blight, vacant underutilized lots, unsafe driver behavior that threatened safety, and a corridor design that prioritizes cars over people. And then moving into the third phase of this planning process, which was plant development implementation. The land use section of our recommendations provided a chance for the community to tell us how they wanted their community to look and feel. So most of the actions that we recommended go towards the creation of a new future land use map. using the new place types. And then a couple other, in addition to guiding development through land use designations, we included potential policies to increase housing diversity through zoning code amendments. The community development section of recommendations focused on identity, placemaking, branding of the area to encourage people to come and move and participate on the corridor. Connect coordinating businesses, to connect with residents for job opportunities, and then safety measures to address blight and dumping. For the green infrastructure section of recommendations, they address sustainability and stormwater issues that are prevalent in the area through green infrastructure, natural plantings, and then furthering placemaking through landscaping, wayfinding, et cetera. And then I will pass it on to Brian to talk about the mobility actions which make up the bulk of the plan.

Good afternoon. One of the early goals we kind of realized from talking to the community was that this is a plan that really needs to be implementable. Not only implementable, but also incremental. So a big thanks to partners in Public Works who were there the entire time, helped us look at different designs for the roadway and made sure everything was feasible. But every recommendation in terms of mobility is something that can be tried out ahead of time. You can do a quick build for it. see how the community reacts, see how drivers and pedestrians react before you make more permanent and expensive infrastructure investments. Something like this was done in Coleman Highlands where temporary traffic circles were used and then later went back in and kind of tweaked and refined with more concrete-based infrastructure. For Prospect Avenue, there was really a lot of input on this. The walking tour revealed a huge idea about what the difference was between Prospect and walking on Hickman Mills. We also wanted to make sure we were respecting the work done on Prospectus and mirroring that cross-section that was done north of 75th Street. But really the main goals were to do things like improve space for people that weren't in vehicles, slow down speeding, which was a constant issue on the corridor, providing better landscape and beautification, as well as also providing a more formal entrance for our Lita Park. When you look at the street section on it, it's going to look very familiar to what you see in Prospectus. So working well with keeping in that previous work done, helping that continue into the community as well. One thing that seemed to be, everyone seemed to agree on, was the intersection of Prospect Avenue and Hickman Millister. I just wasn't working well for anybody. It's pretty confusing. There's a lot of unsafe speeds. There was many accidents there. Pedestrians didn't like it. Cyclists didn't like it. It really was kind of universally disliked. Again, a big thank you to Public Works, who spent a lot of time brainstorming with us about how we could reconfigure that to not only maintain that connectivity but improve safety and access for all users throughout the area. And also reduce the amount of impervious surface for maintenance as well. Then we turned our attention more to Hickman Mills. And the one thing the community also said about this was Hickman Mills is different than Prospect. This is a neighborhood street and it should more look and feel like a neighborhood street. The priorities there or reinstating on-street parking that was taken during the bike infrastructure installation, slowing down cars, improving visibility at some of those intersections where the curves are kind of leading into it, and then also just making, like, kind of discouraging truck traffic and cut-through traffic. So what you see in the site plan and the plan itself does just that. It really took the idea... Oh, here we go. I'll let them catch up to it. There's a more visual part of it to see.

Next one. The director saves the day. That's why he's our director.

That's why he's the director. This is that problematic intersection we talked about in the revised design for it. And that's just kind of the continuation of Prospect south of that intersection. This is Hickman Mills. So as you can see on here, it's a pretty curvy street. If your kid's trying to cross from the east side of it to the west, it's going to be hard to do, and especially with speeding cars coming through there. When we took the walking tour, there was not one crosswalk on Hickman Mills in that area. So in order to slow down vehicles, we looked at strategic locations where raised crosswalks would really be an advantageous thing to do there. So slow down speeding, give people more time to cross, and give them dedicated places. Shown here on the screen, there was not a dedicated crosswalk for Rachel Murado. So basically, if you're on the east side getting across there, not only was there no sidewalk, but no crosswalking there. The other big change was that we condensed the bike infrastructure for being two separate bike lanes. That meant no on-street parking. to one combined cycle track on the west side. This is great for a couple of reasons. Obviously, you can bring back on-street parking, which every resident told us they wanted to see done. They have friends over, they couldn't park near their house. And two, this is actually a better bike facility type. And when you get down south of this corridor on the next slide, you'll see it actually kind of feeds into where Prospect Avenue has bike infrastructure as well. So it's actually a safer transition for cyclists getting down to the trolley trail and to other connections as well. And then this shows kind of that continuation south of the Prospect and Hickman Mills intersection. Right now, this area has never had curb and gutter. It's never had a sidewalk. It is a pretty uncontrolled roadway in that area. A lot of truck traffic from Dodson comes through it. The goal here would be to establish some curbs, a nice shared use path, some trees to make it much more useful. And in the future, as development occurs, setting aside an area there for a connection to Marlborough Park going forward as well. Happy to answer any questions you all might have.

Yeah. Thank you for the presentation and the visuals do actually help, so thank you.

It's hard to describe. You're doing a great job of describing, but the visuals are definitely very helpful.

Yeah, it really came to life once we could see it, so thank you. You all have any questions? I'll just say too, since this is in the 5th District, thank you for engaging the community, and doing the walking tours. I appreciate that. And I also will just comment from the AlphaPoint, the president and CEO of AlphaPoint stating, you know, that they, you know, are one of the largest employers for people who are blind in the country is in this corridor. And, you know, the, the detail and intention that you have to take to make sure that all individuals, no matter what their ability is, will be able to access this corridor is important. So I appreciate you all taking, you know, focusing on every aspect of that because we want to make sure that it's as safe as possible, so. Thank you.

Yeah, they were a great partner and directly influenced that portion of the corridor by their facility. The same with some of the neighbors from Hickman Mills. We actually went back and made some changes based on feedback from that second open house as well. Sure.

All right, is there any public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for audience number 260475. No one appears by Zoom with a raised hand or in person to testify.

All right, I'll entertain a motion.

Thank you, Madam Mayor Pro Tem. I move that resolution number 260475 be reported out of committee with the recommendation of advance to pass.

Second. It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Ordinance number 260478, amending Chapter 88, the Zoning and Development Code. repealing section 88610-05E, loss of non-conforming status and enacting in Luther of a new section of like number and subject matter for the purpose of facilitating reconstruction of non-conforming detached houses after accidental damage or destruction. Hello.

Good afternoon, committee members. Sarah Copeland, city planning and development. No PowerPoint for this one. This is a little bit of a technical amendment. We often get people who say, well, something about the zoning ordinance. Well, aren't I grandfathered? I'd like to say there are no grandfathers in zoning. When we have something that has been legally developed and then the ordinance changes and it's now out of conformance, we call that nonconforming. And you can have nonconforming uses, a use that's established, the ordinance changes, you couldn't do that use in that location, there are nonconforming use. You can have nonconforming lots. And you can also have nonconforming structures. So for example, if I built a house and then something about the setbacks changes and my house is now in, the required setback, my house would be a non-conforming structure. But then if there's some kind of accidental damage or destruction, so for example if you had a house fire, then whether or not you can rebuild your house in that required setback the way it was depends on how much of the house has been destroyed. Because our goal in the zoning ordinance is to bring all of our development into conformance over time not necessarily to continue non-conformities. So then it depends on how much of the house was destroyed. If it's more than 50%, our ordinance says you have to bring the structure into conformance with the zoning and development code. So you would have to rebuild out of the setback. And this is sometimes a problem for some of our homeowners. So we had this situation in the last, year or so, where a house, it was in the required setback, they had a fire, they wanted to reconstruct on the existing foundation, which was possible, but they ran into this issue of being legally nonconforming, they had to come in and get a variance. And this added some time and some cost to their project. So this is a technical amendment that creates an exemption for nonconforming structures that are detached houses, which is how we describe single-family homes in the Zoning and Development Code, that would allow them to be reconstructed even if they're nonconforming and more than 50% of the volume of the house has been destroyed accidentally under certain criteria. This was heard by the City Planning Commission. They recommended approval without conditions. We have not heard any public testimony on this and would recommend it to you at this point. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

Thank you.

So I live in a house that is on a lot that is too small for the zoning. It's R6, lots 4,500 square feet, legally not conforming. If my house burned down today, if my kids are home alone, so it's possible, I would not be able to rebuild. Well, it would depend.

Is it a non-conforming lot or a non-conforming structure?

It's a... structure on the lot that's too small for the R6?

This is specifically for non-conforming structures, not necessarily lots. You can have a non-conforming lot, but not necessarily a non-conforming structure. We'd have to look at the exact circumstances of your particular situation.

Well, might I just say that part of the problem is the down zoning that happened in so many neighborhoods that doesn't align with the historic buildings in that particular zoning district. So we have a lot of R6 and up that for whatever reason. It doesn't seem to be in compliance with our ideas around historic preservation, but I'll salute to that. I'm definitely supportive of this.

Any other questions, comments? Is there any public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for ordinance number 260478. No one appears by Zoom with a raised hand or in person to testify.

Thank you.

I'll entertain a motion.

I move that order 260478 be reported off the committee with the recommendation of advance and do pass. Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

All right. I think we're on, is it 376? 408? Oh, no, I'm sorry. That's HILS. 408. That's HILS. Okay, that's mine. Okay. All right. So, oh, you got to read it first. So, we have a committee.

Oh, I thought that was being held.

I'll pass it out. Thank you.

Committee substitute for resolution number 260408, directing the city manager to engage and partner with local discount prescription drug and wellness programs to provide Kansas City residents with discounts to health and wellness care, including but not limited to discounted pharmacy, nutrition, fitness, and preventative care offerings, and directing the city manager to explore the feasibility of offering various discount programs for residents at the city's community centers, and report back to council in 60 days.

So this is my resolution. It really comes about because, unfortunately, I'm hearing from many of our residents in the economy are struggling to pay for their medications as well as their feed, eat. I received a letter just a week ago from somebody who said she's lost 20-some pounds since January because she has to restrict her food. There's another who are finding that their seniors are having challenges. In addition to the fact that Kansas City has 37% of our adults are living with obesity, 37% of our population. And so the goal of this is to create overall health and wellness or improve the overall health and wellness of our city. And I've had the opportunity over the last, I don't know, six to eight months or so working with different or talking with the different organization that can provide discounted medications for our residents, um, as well as interested partners that, um, are willing to put together a program that will assist us in improving the overall health and wellness of our city. So this will, this resolution will, um, task the city manager and staff to, uh, create, uh, this opportunity that will be no, no additional cost to the city at least. Um, from what we've been able to establish so far. And it tasks the city manager to report back in 60 days. If there are any additional costs or anything, there'll be a separate ordinance that will come with specifying that. So in essence, that's what this is. You all have any questions? Okay. Is there any public testimony?

No public testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for this number 260408.

And I think there's somebody online. At least she was waiting two hours ago.

I don't see any raised hands. Okay. So now.

Okay. She may have had to leave. Okay. Thank you.

All right.

Back to the committee. Do you all have any questions or comments? If not, I'll entertain a motion.

Is this a resolution?

It's a resolution.

Okay. Yes. I'll make a motion then. Madam Mayor, I move that resolution number 260408 be reported out of committee for recommendation of advance to pass. That's a committee sub.

Yeah.

Apologies. We just handed that out. I should have known. I move that committee substitute for resolution number 260408 be reported out of committee for recommendation of advance to pass.

Second. Thank you. It's been moved and probably seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that motion carries. Thank you.

Okay, ordinance number 260432, approving a development plan on about 1.5 acres generally located at the southwest corner of West 46th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in District R-0.5, allowing for the construction of a parking garage on the site with three multi-unit residential buildings.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Mayor Pro Tem and Council Members. Matthew Barnes, City Planning and Development, here with Ordinance 260432, which is a replacement of a parking garage, which is generally located adjacent to the Country Club Plaza at 609 West 46th Street. Here's just that closer view yet of the site at the southwest corner of 46th and Pennsylvania. Here's the existing view of the parking garage and the residential towers behind. There's another view there. The applicant is proposing the removal and reconstruction of the central parking garage. It'll be constructed in two phases, so that's compliant with the one unit per parking spot. It'll have 175 spaces with the first phase, and phase two will be 226 phases. It will also remove a curb cut along Pennsylvania Avenue. So here's just an aerial view of that site. It's kind of hard to make out, but this is what they're proposing. They're adding brick that is similar to what is existing on the buildings adjacent. And here's some renderings of that. So the bottom right is that existing bricks pattern and there you can see that they're integrating it into the parking garage. They are providing landscaping and compliance with the zoning and development code. And they have met their public engagement summary as summarized here. The Plaza Westport Neighborhood Association did provide testimony, which was included in the staff report. Basically, their concerns were around the parking stress on the neighborhood and that removal and reconstruction could worsen that. With that, the City Planning Commissioner recommended approval with conditions, and I can take any questions.

Thank you for the presentation. Any questions from the committee? Any public testimony?

There's no public testimony submitted for ordinance number 260432. No one appears by Zoom with raised hand. Oh, we have one person.

Oh, okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, we didn't say that. I apologize. Ms. Amelia McIntyre.

Amelia McIntyre, on behalf of the Plaza Westport Neighborhood Association. And we generally support the recommendation of staff to approve the development plan to construct the replacement garage. But we have two important concerns that we would like to raise with you. When it came before the CPC, they recommended an alternative parking plan as a condition. That was because of the two phases of construction. This redevelopment may not be coinciding with the renovation of the units. So there may be, and we have strong concerns about this area of our neighborhood, has very high demand for on-street parking. When this council chose to eliminate the parking minimums Staff then slashed away the alternative parking requirement, requiring for phase two that they find alternative parking while it was under construction. That is the direct impact of the choices that this council made to eliminate parking minimums and put the burden on the neighborhood. This neighborhood is very close to the commercial zoning along 47th, Chiefs Fit, The Puttery, and we're already facing parking coming into the neighborhood along Jefferson and Pennsylvania. We support the reconstruction of the parking garage. That's not what we're opposing. What we're opposing is that there isn't alternative parking arrangements made during phase two. if that does not coincide with the renovation of the apartment buildings. I know this apartment building firsthand. I know the old parking garage. It was the first place I chose to live in Kansas City for four years. And I know that parking garage needed to be replaced. That's not our point. Our point is the issue with eliminating finding spaces for the residents during that phase two. Thank you.

Okay, any other testimony? Is there anyone online?

There's no one online. Okay. Oh, one hand just went up.

Okay.

Somebody else.

Good afternoon. My name is . Can you hear me?

Yes, we can hear you.

I'm representing my client, Emerus Free KC, and I'm an architect on the project. I just wanted to say that we agree with the conditions proposed by the city staff and the owner is currently, the developer is currently looking for the alternative parking while the face is constructed.

Thank you. All right. Okay, so it's back to committee. Any comments? So I am having my internet, I finally got it on, but it's delayed. And so I'm actually trying to look up the conditions that was just referenced in the testimony that Can you speak to what the CPC, the condition the CPC stated and what the difference is?

Yes. So originally during staff review, we placed a condition on there saying that if when they were ready to move forward with, so there's three residential towers. They're remodeling them one by one. The 175 parking spaces that are there in the first phase of the REIT, construction of the parking garage would meet some of the needs of, I think, the first two buildings. If they were to then serve the remodel and occupancy of the third building, staff place a condition requesting that they either build the second phase of the parking garage so it's in compliance with the previous parking code, one space per one residential unit, or submit an alternative compliance parking plan. Once the new parking code was adopted, the city plan commission removed that condition to obtain an alternative compliance parking plan.

So it's not a requirement, but they still have the option to do that. Okay. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. Okay. Any other questions, comments?

All right.

Okay. I'll entertain a motion.

So Madam Mayor Pro Temo, I move that Ordinance Number 260432 be reported out of committee with recommendation of advance to be passed. Seconded.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that motion carries. Thank you.

Ordinance number 260433 of vacating approximately 1.51 acres of public right-of-way in District R-1.5, generally located in the northwest corner of Northeast Berry Road and North Prospect Avenue, and directing the city clerk to record certain documents.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Mayor Pro Tem and fellow council members, Justin Smith, City Planning and Development, Development Management Division. In front of you is ordinance number 260433. The site is located just north of Gladstone within the first district. Closer look at the site, you can see it's on the northwest side of North Prospect Avenue and Northeast Berry Road. This vacation request is in relation to a previously approved development plan that was approved in October of 2025. It's called the Bungalows at Maple Woods. This approved 153 four-rent units across single and two-unit residential structures, along with a pool and amenities. During the review process of that development plan, it was found by Public Works that there was excess right-of-way along North Prospect Avenue that could allow for additional units, so staff recommended a vacation at this location. There is private utilities within the right-of-way by Evergy, AT&T, and Spectrum that will have to maintain those easements or relocate their facilities. vacation will still maintain the required right-of-way width at North Prospect Avenue. This is just a view looking north on North Prospect Avenue and a view looking south and with that staff and City Planning Commission recommend approval subject to conditions and I can answer any questions.

Do you all have any questions?

I would like to be added as a co-sponsor.

Okay let the record reflect Councilman Willett as a co-sponsor. Is there any public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for ordinance number 260433. No one appears by Zoom with a raised hand or in person to testify.

Mayor Pro Tem, members of the committee, I want to thank Councilman Willett and Councilman O'Neill for being very instrumental in the development of this build-to-rent community. It is basically a deconstructed apartment development, and the vacation was a part of that. So, and we also appreciate the staff from Public Works and Planning. And with that, we request that you advance and pass it.

Thank you. I'll entertain a motion.

Madam Mayor, Madam Mayor Pro Tem, I move that Ordinance Number 260433B report out of the Committee's recommendation to advance and be passed. Second.

It's been approved.

Moved and seconded.

I was going to say approved. Okay. And properly seconded. Moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.

Thank you all.

Ordinance number 260434, accepting the recommendation of the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Board for additional funding in the amount of $250,000 to the Blue Hill Townhomes project developed by Blue Hill Townhomes LP, located at 5015 Garfield Avenue, reducing $250,000 in existing appropriations in the Housing Trust Fund and appropriating the same and authorizing the manager of procurement services to execute the necessary documents to amend the funding agreements and expend up to $250,000 from the funds appropriated in the Housing Trust Fund.

Good afternoon, everyone. Mayor Pro Tem, members of the committee, and staff. My name is Catherine Nace, and today I'll be presenting on Ordinance 260434. And what this ordinance does is pretty straightforward. You all have had many of these similar ordinances come before you before. It is a budget modification for a housing trust fund project. So it would provide $250,000 to the Blue Hill Townhomes Project. This project will create 45 units of mixed income housing on the 5000 block of Garfield in District 5. 35 of those units will be at or below 60% AMI and 13 will be market rate units. This project was originally awarded in round one and is projected to be completed in October of this year. And the Housing Trust Fund does have established budget modification policy to help projects that experience unforeseen or unreasonably cost increases related to their project. So this is the Housing Trust Fund making a recommendation to institute that policy for this project. And the project specifically has seen approximately $1.5 million in increased expenses. due to significant site remediation and debris removal from the old Willard School. But the housing trust fund, in addition to increased costs, is due to HVAC and electrical costs. But this modification will only approve $250,000 of additional funds, while the developer will fill the remaining gap by other sources. And we also have our developer here in the audience, if you have any additional questions, or Nikai, if you wanna come up and introduce yourself to everyone.

good afternoon everyone the kind or would developer with the blue hills towns project we're super excited to be wrapping up construction here and to be able to deliver this housing for the community. delivering our first residential building, which will be able to house six families. Like Catherine said, we are expected to be completed in October, but I've run into some significant cost increases. So we thank you for your consideration with this budget modification request. Thank you.

Thank you. Any questions from the committee? Any public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office. Ordinance number 260434. No one appears by Zoom with a raised hand or in person to testify. I'll entertain a motion.

This is Madam Mayor Portema. I move that ordinance number 260434 be reported out of the committee of the recommendation of advancing to pass.

It's been moved and properly seconded. Oh, no, it hasn't been seconded. Is there a second? Second. It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Thank you.

Thank you.

ORDINANCE NUMBER 260435, ACCEPTING AND APPROVING A ONE-YEAR $631,890 CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR ACTIVITIES OF THE HIGH-IMPACT HIV PREVENTION SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM, ESTIMATING AND APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $631,890 WITH THE HEALTH GRANTS FUND AND RECOGNIZING THIS ORDINANCE AS HAVING AN ACCELERATED EFFECTIVE DATE.

We've seen you many times, so if you just give us a summary. Thank you.

Of course. Thank you, Mary Pro Tem. Members of the committee, my name is Sean Ryan. I am the division manager for Kansas City Health Department's HIV and STI division. Here presenting on 260435, this is the core of our HIV prevention services out of the health department. CDC allocates these funds to the state of Missouri, who designates the city of Kansas City as the lead regional agency to cover a seven-county region surrounding the metro area. There are three main services that come from this grant, which include outreach education, testing in non-clinical settings, and resource allocation, which includes a large condom distribution in the city. This is a continuation of existing programs with not much changing.

Thank you. Any questions? Any public testimony?

There's no public testimony submitted for ordinance number 260435. No one appears by Zoom with the raised hand or in person to testify. I'll entertain a motion.

Yes, Madam Mayor, pro tem. I move that ordinance number 260435 be reported out of committee for recommendation or advance to pass.

Is there a second? It's been moved and probably seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.

Ordinance number 260436, residing in an area of about 42 acres, generally located northwest corner of Northeast Vivian Road and North Chateau Trafficway from District UR to District UR, and approving a developmental plan serving as a major amendment to previously approved UR district to change permitted uses.

Good afternoon.

afternoon mayor pro tem and committee members genevieve khan smith with city planning and development and before you as stated is a rezoning from ur to ur otherwise known as a major amendment this is to the antioch crossing ur district which is located in the northern portion of the city just south of gladstone it is a sizable ur district with many properties on it. Here are all the lots. And really what we're focusing on with this ordinance is as market demands change over time, the uses that we see in some of our older planned districts, URs, they listed very specific uses, and so the applicant is before you today just to amend some of those uses and add some flexibility to this commercial district. I have most of the changes highlighted here adding generalizing for certain lots uses in the B2 district and then still specifying for certain lots specific uses. So applicant and staff work together to find what met their needs and then we just have some look at the site. It is mostly built out. I think there's only one or two lots that are still yet to be developed. And with that, the City Planning Commission and staff recommend approval with conditions, and I can take any questions.

Any questions, comments, any public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the City Clerk's Office. Fortness number 260436. No one appears by Zoom with their raised hand or in person to testify.

Thank you. I will entertain a motion.

Madam Mayor Pro Tem, I move that ordinance number 260436 be reported on the committee for recommendation of advance. Do you pass? Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you.

Ordinance number 260437, resolution improving an amendment to the slope park area plan on about 2.6 acres generally located At 6655 Troost Avenue, by changing the recommended land use from commercial and open space buffer to commercial for the mean well power solutions expansion.

438, please.

Ordinance number 260438, rezoning an area of about 2.6 acres generally located at 6655 Troost Avenue from Districts B4-2 and R-5 to District B4-3 and approving a development plan to allow for 30,000 square foot expansion of an industrial use.

Good afternoon, Genevieve Kahn-Smith, City Planning and Development. Before you have a resolution for an area plan amendment and ordinance for a rezoning and development plan for the Meanwell Power Solutions Facility at 6655 Troost, located in the southern portion of the city. Here's the subject site highlighted in yellow. There is an existing building that this business operates out of currently, and they are looking to expand. One thing we talked about today earlier is nonconformities. This is a nonconforming site, so part of the rezoning and development plan addresses that. First off, the area plan amendment. is really specific to this eastern portion of the site, which the Swope Area Plan designates as open space buffer. So the resolution will amend this to commercial to match the rest of the site. And then the existing zoning line matches that area plan split between commercial and open space. And so the request is to rezone the entire site to a B4-3, which is just one notch higher than the B4-2 that's currently on the site. And this will allow the maximum height of 55 feet of the proposed building, which is shown here on the site plan. So it's a second separate building that will have office. It'll have a lower level parking garage and also some light manufacturing. That's the principal use of this entire lot. and the applicant worked with staff on the placement of the building, which should create some nice screening from the residential area to the east, from all of the truck circulation and movement on site. and their landscape plan. And after the city plan commission hearing and discussion, they did add additional landscaping to help screen and buffer from the adjacent residences. And then we have some building elevations, um, using a mix of some metal panel and brick and screening, uh, things like vent areas, And this is a look at where the proposed building will be. Um, so you can see what the grade change here that allows the lower story parking garage in this proposed building. And then this is the existing facility, which will remain, uh, as well as all the parking. And then another item discussed at the city plane commission hearing, was to, the applicant completed their required public engagement. They didn't really have any people come to their meeting, so the CPC instructed them to go do some door knocking, leave some If they did that, I can let the applicant speak more about that. Otherwise, the commission and staff are recommending approval of the area plan amendment rezoning, and then approval with conditions of that development plan, and I can take any questions.

All right, thank you for the presentation. Any questions, comments? Okay, any public testimony?

There's no written testimony submitted to the city clerk's office for resolution number 260437 and ordinance number 460438. No one appears by Zoom with a raised hand or in person to testify.

All right, I will entertain the motions, please.

I just remove that resolution number 260437 be reported out of committee as a recommendation to advance. Do you pass? Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that motion carries.

Madam Mayor, I pretend to move that ordinance number 260438 be reported out of committee recommendation and advanced to pass. Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you for being here today. Thank you.

Ordinance number 260439, resolution directing the city manager to submit projects identified in this resolution as applications for the fiscal year 2027, planning sustainable places program funding to the Mid-America Regional Council.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Almost evening.

Yes, almost evening. Not quite. All right. Good afternoon, committee. Before you today is resolution number 260439. I'm Lexi Barra, part of the Community Planning Development Division, and with me I have... Hi, I'm Gerald Williams, Division Manager for Community Planning. And before you, we have this resolution essentially giving staff the ability to submit applications for this round of funding for the Planning Sustainable Places Grant, as well as acts as an understanding that if we are awarded those applications, a 20% match will be provided by the city. SO SOME QUICK BACKGROUND ON THE PLANNING SUSTAINABLE PLACES GRANT. THIS GRANT IS FUNDED THROUGH THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BLOCK GRANT AND IS DISTRIBUTED THROUGH MARK. THIS ROUND OF FUNDING MISSOURI HAS BEEN ALLOCATED $500,000. THE GRANT CYCLE PROVIDES AWARDS OF UP TO $150,000 FOR PROJECTS. THIS GRANT PROGRAM IN GENERAL WORKS TO ADVANCE INTEGRATED LOCAL TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE PLANNING TO SUPPORT PROJECTS THAT ARE VIBRANT PLACES, CONNECTED PLACES AND GREEN PLACES. ALL OF THE APPLICATIONS WE ARE PLANNING TO APPLY FOR HAVE THE ABILITY TO FURTHER ONE OF THE TEN KC SPIRIT PLAYBOOK GOALS, WHICH IS OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. BUT SPECIFICALLY THE CONNECTED CITY GOAL WILL BE ADVANCED BY ALL OF THEM AS THE GRANT SUPPORTS PLANNING EFFORTS THAT IMPROVE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION, STRENGTHEN CONNECTIONS BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS AND CORRIDORS, AND ALSO PROMOTE EQUAL ACCESS TO JOB SERVICES AND AMENITIES. THE CITY IS NO STRANGER TO THE PSP GRANT AND HAS UTILIZED IT MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE PAST SUCH AS FOR THE TRANSPORTATION COMPONENTS OF THE KC SPIRIT PLAYBOOK AND MOST RECENTLY FOR KANSAS CITY'S FORGOTTEN HOMES AND INDEPENDENCE PLAZA STUDY. SO THE PROJECT LIST THAT I'M ABOUT TO GO OVER HAS FIVE PROJECTS THAT THE CITY WILL BE APPLYING FOR AND ONE WE ARE PARTNERING WITH AN OUTSIDE ORGANIZATION ON. THAT LIST WAS DEVELOPED OVER THE LAST FIVE OR SO MONTHS STARTING WITH AN INITIAL MEETING WITH DEPARTMENT STAFF IN JANUARY. We did some internal vetting and research to determine which applications would have the best chance at this grant. Initial communication with council was sent out in March with an initial list. And after some feedback from council for the refinement, the final list was sent out in April. So starting with the projects we are planning to submit for, the first is a Vivian Road corridor plan study, which will develop strategies for a safer, more connected, and sustainable multimodal corridor. generally extending from Riverside to Claycomo. The responsible department for this would be the Planning and Development Department. And it's important to note that all of these costs are still estimates, and we're going to continue to refine them as we build out the application and write our scope. So the estimated total project cost would be $500,000. We're going to be requesting $150,000 from the grant. If awarded, we are required, the city is required to participate a 20% match, which would be $30,000, plus a 1% administration fee, with an estimated additional funding of $320,000. It's important to note with this project as well that that $30,000 match would be split between municipalities along the corridor. Those details are still getting fleshed out, though. Next, we have the Reconnecting Kansas City Community Investment Plan, which really acts as a phase two to the Reconnecting Eastside and Reconnecting Westside plan, working to foster opportunity for future development and making sure that the benefits of those studies are reaped by the communities within them. then the responsible department for this is public works estimated total project cost is two thousand two hundred thousand dollars with an estimated grant request of one hundred fifty thousand dollars thirty thousand dollars required match and then estimated additional funding of twenty thousand dollars next we have the cliff drive to blue valley trail alignment study which came out of the truman plaza area plan update This would be looking at a shared use path, preliminary design, and alignment using city or school district-owned land as well as the Van Brunt Corridor. The responsible department would be planning and development, estimated cost $120,000 with a grant request of $100,000 and that 20% match at $20,000. Next, we have the citywide transit plan, which would establish a long-term vision for a stronger, more efficient, and accessible transit network. The responsible department here is planning and development. ESTIMATED TOTAL COST WOULD BE $400,000. WE ARE REQUESTING $150,000 FROM THE GRANT. SAME MATCH 20% AND ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL FUNDING OF $220,000. SO THIS IS THE LAST PROJECT THAT THE CITY IS PLANNING TO APPLY FOR, WHICH IS THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE OR FREIGHT MOVEMENT PLAN. AND THIS WILL ASSESS CURRENT FREIGHT CONDITIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN SUPPORTING THE LOCAL ECONOMY. AGAIN, THE RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT IS PLANNING A DEVELOPMENT WITH A TOTAL COST OF $400,000. WE'RE REQUESTING $150,000. REQUIRED MATCH IS $30,000, AND THEN THE ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL FUNDING IS $220,000. SO THIS IS THE ONE PROJECT WE ARE PLANNING TO PARTNER WITH AN OUTSIDE ORGANIZATION ON. WE PLAN TO PARTNER WITH THE KCATA ON APPLYING FOR AN ADA COMPLIANT BUS STOP STUDY, WHICH WILL LOOK AT PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG HIGH RIDERSHIP CORRIDORS AND DOCUMENT SAFETY AND ACCESSIBILITY GAPS. So the KCATA is going to be applying for this grant. The estimated cost is $120,000 with a grant request of $100,000. The required match would be $20,000, which if awarded, we would split equally with the KCATA. And then it's important to note that there were two projects that were brought to our attention after submitting this resolution. THE 75th STREET CORRIDOR STUDY AND THE BI-STATE WEST BOTTOM STUDY. THE CITY WOULD NOT BE SUBMITTING THE APPLICATIONS FOR EITHER OF THESE PROJECTS, BUT WOULD BE OPEN TO PROVIDING LETTERS OF SUPPORT OR POTENTIAL FINANCIAL FUNDING, OF COURSE, DEPENDING ON WHAT COUNCIL PRIORITIES ARE, BUT THIS REALLY IS MORE JUST A FOUR-YEAR INFORMATION AT THIS TIME. LASTLY, WE HAVE THE TIMELINE. SO THE CALL FOR STUDIES OPENED ON MAY 4TH. IT'S GOING TO CLOSE ON JUNE 22ND WITH INTERNAL DELIBERATION AT MARK THROUGH THE SUMMER, AND THEN AWARDEES WILL BE NOTIFIED IN SEPTEMBER. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. We recommend approval of this resolution. Thank you.

Thank you. Can you go back to slide 13, please? Yeah. So this will be a study. Then ultimately, there'll be additional funding applications that will need to be... Would cover the actual infrastructure. Would need to cover the whatever the cost. Okay. Correct. Okay. I got confused when it said to deliver... ADA compliant bus stops, but it's to study, you know, ultimate goal would be to deliver that. Okay, I just want to make sure. No, that's a fair. It's almost evening, so. Sure, that's a fair clarification.

All right, you guys have any questions?

All right, thank you. Is this your first time presenting? Yes. That's what I thought. Good job. Good job today. Thank you, thank you. That's what I thought. Yeah, you did a great job. I appreciate it. We appreciate you as well. Thank you for your work on this. All right, any testimony? And you can just say yes or no. No.

No.

No. It's getting late. Okay. All right. So there's nobody online. All right. I'll entertain a motion.

Yes. Madam Mayor Pro Tem, I move that resolution number 260439 be reported out of the committee for recommendation of advance to be passed.

Second.

It's been moved and properly seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? And the motion carries. Thank you.

Thank you.

We have one more. I think that's the last one. 453?

No, we have 453. Can you hold yours?

No, we have, yeah, 453.

Yes, we do have one.

I tried to take you earlier. You were so kind. 453. Well, I'm sorry, it's not yours. Yeah, 453.

Ordinance number 260453, amending Chapter 50 Code of Ordinances. offenses and miscellaneous provisions by repealing Section 50-234, conversion therapy of minors prohibited in its entirety and amending Chapter 38, Article 3, Division 1, Section 38.113, discriminatory accommodation practices for the purpose of creating an exception regarding preferred pronouns.

Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Darius Diamond. I'm general counsel in the office of Mayor Lucas. It's been a long road to get here. But this ordinance, as unfortunate as it is, is rather simple. In 2019, this council passed an ordinance banning conversion therapy, which is a harmful practice according to medical science. But the Supreme Court recently this year passed or issued down an opinion that rendered this ordinance unlawful. And so to protect the city, we need to repeal this ordinance.

Okay. Any questions? All right. Is there any public testimony?

No.

No public testimony. I'll entertain a motion.

Mayor Pro Tem, I move that ordinance number 260453 report a committee with a recommendation to advance and do pass.

Is there a second? Okay. All right, it's been moved and seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay. Okay, there's a nay. Okay. All right. Any, oh, we do have this opportunity zone because there's no other ordinances, correct? I don't know. All right. And if you can go ahead with the specifics on this, we need to at least have some comments. Go ahead.

Oh, I am curious.

Yeah. Go ahead.

Well, in the back is going to present with me.

Okay.

And we'll be concise.

Yes.

Thank you for sticking it out this long.

Yes. And I'm sorry we couldn't get to it last week.

I think we can get more of like this opportunity zone. Chair, members of the committee, Kyle Elliott, director of city planning department. Matthew Wilkes, city planning.

What we have in front of you is informational at this point, but it speaks to the update to the Opportunity Zones, or titled as Opportunity Zones 2.0. Go ahead and go to the next slide. Opportunity Zones themselves are federally designated areas. They generally are made up of economically distressed census tracts. So one of the things that we're used to using is the continually distressed. These are slightly different. These can be just at one point in time. They're designed to attract private development on a capital gain size. The first time they came through was in 2017, and they were officially adopted in 2018. Have about a 10-year life cycle with this. With the Big Beautiful Bill Act, they did set them up to run every 10 years moving forward. The Opportunity Zones from 2018, we generally had five different areas. Of those, we had around 30 individual tracks. They're based on census tracks themselves. We'll go ahead and go to the map and show you where the current ones are. They're on the Paseo Gateway. Oh, sorry, the Blue Valley, that's the blue area that tracks all the way down. The Paseo Gateway, the green area in there. Central City, Swope. On the very bottom, Martin City, once again, those compromise multiple tracks inside of there. Go right ahead. This is just a closer view of these, so you can see the existing ones. And I'll hand it over to Matt.

So Opportunity Zones work primarily through a creation called a Qualified Opportunity Fund. This fund is essentially an investment vehicle within TRACS. So think of like a real estate investment trust. A Qualified Opportunity Fund is performing a similar function. These funds are required to invest 90% of their assets within a qualified track, and these investments are eligible for residential and most commercial. So these are, they ban sin businesses such as golf courses, liquor stores, adult entertainment, etc. So the benefit is if your gains, capital gains are invested into a qualified fund, your benefits accrue the longer that you hold within that fund. So the idea is that if you make an investment, hold it within that fund for at least five years, you will receive a 10% reduction in your capital gains. Up to 10 years, that becomes effectively a 100% capital gains deferment. So the incentive is designed to encourage investors to take gains that they would otherwise realize, pay taxes on, and spend somewhere else to keep it in a fund that is continuously reinvesting projects within these opportunity tracks. So just a little background on timeline. This is something that the state of Missouri is actually making the recommendation to the IRS. So for the city, we had to get tracts submitted to the state by May 17th, which was this past Sunday. The state is currently going under an initial review, and they expect to release tentative recommendations for public comment in July. Following those public comments, the governor will submit the state's recommendations to the IRS in August to be made official by the IRS in January of 2027. So a little background on our process. So primarily, this was a working group made up of staff with the planning department, the housing department, and then the Economic Development Corporation. We went through and made recommendations for tracks based on projects or initiatives that staff in planning and housing were aware of, as well as EDC sent those recommendations, as well as some alternatives to the city manager's office. And we've been collaborating with the Mid-America Regional Council, as well as local partners with UMKC, University Health, and even the Missouri Department of Natural Resources on some of our submissions. So for this submission, we identified 25 tracks. So Kyle mentioned we had around 30 last year. This year we had 20 that we identified as highly compatible based on previous initiatives that staff was aware of, as well as five that had a moderate to high compatibility. The district breakdown of those submissions, around 11 tracks were in the third district, six were in the fourth, seven tracks in the fifth, and the sixth district had one track submitted. There were two tracks that fell across multiple district boundaries, so one that is in the third and the fourth, and one that is in the third and the fifth. So here's a big picture view of the city. I know this is a little hard to read, but the tracks in blue were tracks that were submitted by the city. The tracks highlighted in green, so you can see 43 and 75, those are submitted by Health Sciences CID and UMKC respectively. So I have some zooms as well so that you can get a better sense geographically. So here's kind of the northernmost portion, north of South Loop. Here are the tracks from between South Loop and 63rd Street. And then here are the tracks south of 63rd Street as well.

Can you go back, please?

Yep. This one or one more?

So... Well, when they get finished with that, I have a question about southeast Kansas City. I mean, you can leave it on there, but I'm curious as to why the southeast portion of Kansas City wouldn't have been recommended. Well, yeah, so the area down like Blue Ridge Corridor, so it's going to be next to this black box.

So some tracks weren't identified as eligible for the program so that the tracks that are in gray meet the requirements by the IRS. So any track that you're seeing that's not grayed out wasn't eligible?

What I'm talking about is kind of down by where the L is. So it's going to be further down. See the L? So like 131, 132, 03?

Oh, no, I was saying even further. Oh, it has to be, no. Are you talking like south of Longview Lake?

Yeah.

Yeah. So none of those tracks were considered eligible based on the IRS standard. So it's a combination of like poverty rate and household income. So the IRS essentially is telling us here are the tracks that are eligible for these programs and those are the tracks that are highlighted in gray.

Oh, maybe I'm, okay. All right. Thank you. I think you're in there.

Yeah, so if you look at the bigger map of all of them, anything that shows up gray, blue, or green were eligible tracks. Anything that's not one of those colors wouldn't even be one we could consider.

Where's 132? Is 132.10, where is that geographically?

Like what? Ruskin Hills, just south of Robindy.

Ruskin and, yeah, okay, well that's the area I'm... Yeah, Ruskin. Rusk is there, but this is great. Yeah, that's great. Oh, yeah.

This is not in the city. Okay.

Yeah. All right. I think you covered it. I think it's in there. I just, it's late. Okay. Thank you.

It's been a long committee.

Yeah.

All right. Did you have other questions, Councilwoman?

Yeah, I'm trying to locate, I'm trying to locate just the kind of third district area. Yeah.

Did we get this email to us in color? Yeah.

I don't know if you did or didn't. We'll make sure you do get it.

Okay.

We've got it, and we can also put an aerial underneath it and some street names, too.

Okay, thank you.

Timeline. Didn't we talk timeline? Or not?

Yeah, you did.

I'm just looking for it. Oh, okay. The, okay, January 2027. Yep. All right. And I guess the thing, because, you know, we've had opportunity zones, you know, as you've already specified, but I can't see that we really use them to our benefit. I mean, I don't see that we have much investment that occurs. Am I out of my mind here?

So one of the things we wanted to be able to provide you too, which would be a regular, I think a common question would be, how successful are these? Are they a tool that benefits certain types of developments that would help us figure out where we need to place them? Well, they are federal programs. We don't track them. We wouldn't necessarily know whether or not somebody exercised that option or not. That is one of the things that they found through the federal program they started to correct. So we will hopefully have better information, but we couldn't track any down through this.

Let me see the 18th and Vine area again.

Uh-oh.

There you go. I don't... Oh.

So 18th Street kind of runs across, right across tracks 161 and 160.

So what's the southern...

23rd Street is the southern bound of track 160. Okay.

And then you take it a little further to where? Armor. So it's 71.

And so why did you choose, or why was this

How was it made?

Well, why were there some areas that were not submitted?

So around 30 is what they told us we should basically shoot for. So we tried to stay around that ballpark. We also looked internally based on the questions they asked which of these would be the most compatible. So those are things like where development pattern occurs, where there's a bunch of ownership patterns that make the most sense, like out of vacant lots and things like that. So we compared those, where infrastructure were, where our capital investments are, and we basically did our best to come up with the right answers for these, which normally on these we would come present to you before we present. We never could, unfortunately, get in front of

Sure, okay.

Yep.

All right, well, thank you. Anybody else have more questions? Thank you for the presentation. I would say we definitely want to have you come back once, you know, once everything's finalized and we know what has been approved, if you'll come back to the committee, provide us more insight, and then also let us know whether or not we'll be able to track whether or not they're successful. Because I do think there's probably some opportunity we could, benefit we could take advantage of or we could leverage this better for the development that we need here in Kansas City, the investment we're looking for.

I think one of Matt's first questions and one of Dion Lewis' first questions is who implements these? And working with the EDC, that's one of the groups that will help know or investors know these are an option that could be beneficial. Sure.

Okay. Thank you so much. Well, thank you, everybody, for hanging in there. It's been a long committee, so we appreciate it. Thank you. I will adjourn unless there's additional business. We're good.