Neighborhood Watch List:
Citywide ⌾ KCI & 2nd Creek ⌾ Coves North ⌾ Prairie Point-Wildberry ⌾ Columbus Park ⌾ West Bottoms ⌾ Westside ⌾ Crown Center-Longfellow-Union Hill ⌾ Hospital Hill ⌾ Hyde Park ⌾ Legacy East ⌾ Willow Creek
The Royals stadium agreements passed 11 to 2 after a five-hour committee hearing, roughly 42 public testimony cards, and a physical assault in the chamber, locking in the city’s $600,000,000.00 commitment and appropriating the first $20,000,000.00 in bond proceeds. Item: 260704
The 68-acre ballpark district rezoning advanced but was deliberately parked for a September 3 final vote, after the applicant handed the committee new condition language at hour five and the mayor objected to reacting to it on the spot. Item: 260705
Voters’ $100,000,000.00 housing bond got two companion measures asking the city manager to chase outside money to leverage it and to review the federal housing act for local barriers, both adopted unanimously. Items: 260716 and 260717
A Dillons at Twin Creeks won its gas station 120 feet from a competitor’s station still under construction, over the objection of that owner, because the commission decided the 2,000-foot rule is about neighborhoods rather than competition. Case: CD-CPC-2026-00094
A transportation grant ordinance was pulled out of order and passed the same day because a state deadline lands before the council’s next session; Bunch asked why the city keeps doing this at the last minute. Item: 260740
Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee
August 18th, 2026, 9:30 am
The Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee was attended this week by Chairperson Andrea Bough, Councilmember Wes Rogers, Councilmember Crispin Rea, and Councilmember Darrell Curls, with Vice Chair Mayor Quinton Lucas arriving shortly after the meeting began. Councilmember Johnathan Duncan, Councilmember Kevin O’Neill, and Councilmember Lindsay French sat in as auditing members, and Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw joined online.
260716
RESOLUTION – Directing the City Manager to identify funding opportunities that will enhance City-funded affordable housing projects and report back to Council within 90 days.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmember Darrell Curls
Attachments: Memo
Result: Curls said the resolution asks the city manager to look for philanthropic and other outside money that could be layered on top of the $100,000,000.00 affordable housing bond voters approved earlier in August, so the city can stretch that money further. Blaine Proctor, director of housing and community development, said the department already does this work, pointing to a recent subgrantee application under a federal Department of Housing and Urban Development PRO Housing grant with the Mid-America Regional Council as primary grantee, ongoing conversations with a local philanthropy, and additional federal grant applications in progress with the city’s grant writer. Proctor added that when housing trust fund applicants come in, staff review the full capital stack and make awards contingent on pending low-income housing tax credit awards, reprogramming the money if the credits do not come through. Rea asked to be added as a co-sponsor. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260719
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE – Authorizing the City Manager to execute a petition to establish the Riverfront Community Improvement District and establishing a policy for the acceptance of partial tax parcels within the boundaries of a community improvement district.
Neighborhood: Columbus Park
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute
Result: Counsel appearing for one of the Riverfront developers explained that the city owns property inside the proposed district and that the district is being formed to generate revenue for services and infrastructure along the riverfront, consistent with earlier council direction to find ways to support the area. Bough clarified for the record that the resolution only authorizes the city manager to sign the petition as a landowner, and that once all property owners sign, the petition returns to the city clerk for verification and then to the council for a public hearing. The committee substitute adds a policy allowing partial tax parcels to be included when all property owners are filing. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass as a committee substitute.
260704
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE – Authorizing the City Manager to execute a lease, development agreement, community impact partnership agreement, and funding agreement with the Kansas City Royals or an affiliated entity for design, construction, and operations of a new stadium, team offices, and supporting infrastructure (the “Project”) in the Washington Square Park/Crown Center area; authorizing the execution of additional cooperative agreements in connection with the lease, development agreement, and funding agreement; authorizing the City Manager to execute intergovernmental cooperative agreements with the State of Missouri and related entities; authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a non-relocation agreement; establishing Fund No. 3459, the Special Obligation Downtown Stadium Bond Fund; estimating and appropriating bond proceeds in the amount of $20,000,000.00 for the purpose of providing a portion of the City’s contribution to the Project; providing direction to the City Manager on the funding sources for the Project and future debt service; reaffirming the City’s intent to provide funding totaling $600,000,000.00 toward the Project; authorizing the execution of additional agreements as necessary to comply with the directives of this ordinance; reaffirming the Council’s intent to waive the contract solicitation and Article IV, Chapter 3, requirements otherwise set out in the Code of Ordinances as to the agreements authorized in this Ordinance; waiving the requirements of Section 88-586-01 through 88-586-07; waiving the requirements of Ordinance No. 60321 with respect to the Project; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Crossroads, Crown Center, Longfellow, and Union Hill
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Appropriation Ordinance, Community Impact Partnership Agreement, Stadium Lease, Funding Agreement, Development Agreement, Royals Presentation, Committee Substitute, Revised Community Impact Partnership Agreement
Result: Taken up together with the ballpark district rezoning, 260705, in a hearing that ran roughly five hours.
Brooke Sherman, president of real estate and development for the Kansas City Royals, and Stacey Payne, president of Crown Center, presented for the team. Sherman described a $3,000,000,000.00 total project, split roughly one third public and two thirds private, with about $1,900,000,000.00 for the stadium and infrastructure and a little over $1,000,000,000.00 for surrounding development. The ballpark would seat 34,000 and sit at the south end of Crown Center, with parking concentrated to the north and west to keep traffic away from Longfellow Neighborhood – including Children’s Mercy, University Health, the Ronald McDonald House, Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, and the single-family homes east of the Gillham. Two streetcar stops serve the district on the west-side of the site. Sherman mentioned the team would renovate both the Westin and the Sheraton hotels, and about 65 percent of fans are expected to enter through the north plaza gate, which stays open for Hallmark events year round. Sherman said the community impact partnership agreement commits at least $55,000,000.00 on top of the roughly $50,000,000.00 the Royals Foundation has put into the community over the past decade, including $5,000,000.00 to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum capital campaign, $5,000,000.00 to the city’s housing gateway program for homelessness, and $14,000,000.00 to arts and cultural organizations, plus prevailing wages during construction, investment in Washington Square Park, a ticket preference program for Kansas City residents, and a wage commitment for hourly ballpark workers negotiated with the Service Employees International Union. Payne framed the ballpark as a continuation of Crown Center’s mixed-use history rather than a departure from it, noting the district already holds more than a million square feet of office space, two hotels, exhibit halls, residences, theaters, and retail.
City Manager Mario Vasquez presented the agreements with Morgan Holacek, chief economic development strategy officer, and Brenton Silverly, director of finance. The city will own the stadium, with the team acquiring the land and conveying it to the city, developing the project, and carrying the development risk. The team has selected Populous as architect and is choosing a construction manager at risk. Demolition would begin in 2027, groundbreaking is targeted for May 2027, and substantial completion is set for the end of 2029 to prepare for the 2030 season, with a contractual deadline of March 2031. The lease runs 30 years with five two-year extension options at nominal rent, with the team responsible for all maintenance, repair, utilities, and operating costs, and the city receiving 5 percent of net profits on non-baseball events. Total project cost is $1,900,000,000.00. Cost overruns are the team’s responsibility. The city’s contribution is fixed at $600,000,000.00, made up of $90,000,000.00 for infrastructure and $510,000,000.00 in city-supported bonds. The team is targeting $1,140,000,000.00 (that is $1.14 Billion with a B) in total public funding and is responsible for securing anything beyond the city’s share. Repayment would come from tax increment financing at the site, a stadium improvement district with a 1 percent sales tax at the ballpark, a state tax increment financing application, and an impact area capturing incremental growth from existing development nearby.
Property tax, the public mass transportation tax, the buyer tax, the Central City Economic Development tax, and Kansas City Area Transportation Authority sales taxes are excluded from the redirections. The $20,000,000.00 appropriated in this ordinance is backed by bonds supported by the food and beverage portion of the convention and tourism tax, with first debt service in fiscal year 2028; that fund’s balance, estimated at $20,500,000.00 at the end of fiscal year 2026, would dip to about $17,900,000.00 before recovering as other debt falls off. Vasquez added two commitments not in the printed materials: an agreement between the team and Kansas City Public Schools intended to leave the district unharmed, and a commitment on living wages and the option for employment for current stadium workers.
The committee took roughly 42 public testimony cards at two minutes each. Testimony in support came from the Building Trades of Kansas City, the Heavy Constructors Association, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 124, the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, Visit KC, the Kansas City Royals Foundation’s charitable partners, and a number of business owners and contractors, focused on apprenticeships, prevailing wage construction work, tourism, and keeping a Major League team in the city. Testimony in opposition came from Missouri Workers Power, Stand Up KC, faith leaders, residents of the San Francisco Towers and Santa Fe Place condominiums, and a group representing supporters of keeping the Royals at Kauffman Stadium, focused on public financing, homelessness and housing needs, construction impacts, parking and traffic in the condominium buildings, and the city’s return on its investment. Testimony was interrupted at one point by a physical altercation in the chamber when security assaulted a member of the public; Bough paused the hearing, asked everyone to be seated, and said she would give every speaker an opportunity if the room cooperated with the procedures.
Lucas offered the committee substitute, which moves some of the prior promised $55 million from the Royals towards different uses, but doesn’t change the financing. The initial contribution is redirected to the Kansas City Royals Foundation for youth sports, a fund the Royals control, to be distributed in collaboration with the city and prioritized toward zip codes the health department has designated as focus areas, naming the Royals Amateur Development Complex at 9600 Blue River Road, Clark Ketterman Park, Parade Park, Blue Valley Park, and future facilities managed by the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners. The $5,000,000.00 for homelessness is directed into the housing trust fund with advisory board and council guidance. The substitute adds a commitment of not less than $5,000,000.00 in additional youth sports investment over the term, removes named nonprofit recipients elsewhere in favor of later negotiation, and spreads the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum contribution across the life of the agreement rather than paying it up front.
Duncan spoke out against the ordinance. He said the labor protections, apprenticeship commitments, Service Employees International Union language he worked on, the location, and the use of existing transit and parking were all good, but that 5 percent of non-baseball revenue is not commensurate with the city’s risk, that ancillary development is treated as a separate project and generates no ongoing revenue for the city, that the council has not received the third-party financial analysis it was promised, and that the city’s $600,000,000.00 is the key that unlocks state money and therefore leverage the city is not using. He cited $14,000,000.00 a year and $165,000,000.00 to date out of the general fund for the Power and Light District as a cautionary example. O’Neill responded that the 2002 downtown investment produced enormous property valuation and tax revenue gains, and listed the $100,000,000.00 housing bond, the central city sales tax, the 2022 housing trust fund money, and the conflict resolution ordinance as evidence the council invests in people. Rea said the Service Employees International Union leadership speaks for the workers directly affected and reached its own agreement with the team, thanked staff, and said the shift of operations, maintenance, and insurance costs onto the team was a major win.
Rea announced that he and Bunch would introduce a resolution directing the city manager to work with the Longfellow and Union Hill neighborhoods on traffic, parking, and infrastructure, modeled on the Columbus Park language attached to the Kansas City Current agreement. Rogers called it a celebration, pointing to Service Employees International Union wages, prevailing wage construction, and roughly 3,000,000 additional visits downtown a year. Curls said the community improvement commitments reach across the whole city, including the 5th District, and that the project saves existing jobs as well as creating new ones. Bough said this vote approves the development framework, and that the financing plan, currently at the Tax Increment Financing Commission, returns to the council separately.
Lucas moved advance and do pass on the committee substitute with his amended language. Advanced with a recommendation to pass as a committee substitute.
260705
Rezoning an area of about 68 acres generally located south of Pershing Road, west of Gillham Road, north of E. 27th Street, and east of Main Street from Districts UR, B4-5, and M1-5 to District UR and approving a development plan, also serving as a preliminary plat, to allow for a ballpark district. (CD-CPC-2026-00100).
Neighborhoods: Crown Center-Longfellow-Union Hill
Sponsor(s): Councilmembers Andrea Bough and Kevin O’Neill, and Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Staff Report, City Plan Commission Presentation, Public Testimony to City Plan Commission, Royals Presentation
Result: Genevieve Kahn-Smith of City Planning and Development presented the rezoning and preliminary development plan. The plan is phased, with Area 1 covering the stadium itself on the east side of the district where Pershing Road turns into Gillham Road, and other buildings identified to remain and be renovated over time. It sets a framework for the flexible urban redevelopment district by listing all B4 uses as permitted except for a set of prohibited uses, along with square footages, a phasing timeline, design guidelines covering massing, materials, placemaking, pedestrian facilities, and landscaping, and a transportation assessment that precedes a formal traffic study still being coordinated with Public Works. Deviations are requested for spillover lighting, parking, and loading and maneuvering along Pershing, Gillham, and Grand, all designated boulevards with enhanced standards. A condition requires an events management plan, similar to the one for the existing stadium at Berkley Riverfront.
The City Plan Commission received eight letters in opposition before the staff report and 63 more letters afterward, took extensive in-person testimony, and modified the conditions in response: adding a condition on condominium residents and their parking, adding a requirement for noise and lighting studies and plans, modifying the Public Works multimodal condition to preserve separation between bike lanes, sidewalks, and traffic rather than allowing combined-use paths, and modifying the traffic management plan condition to guarantee condominium residents access to their parking during events.
Jake Hodson of Olson, the applicant on the rezoning, brought late clarifying language for conditions 7, 8, and 40, saying the intent matched what the commission wanted but the wording was unclear. Lucas objected to being asked to react to new condition language after five hours of testimony without having seen it, and pressed staff on whether the conditions they drafted were already clear enough to give notice to affected parties; law department and planning staff said they had not reviewed the applicant’s version and were comfortable with what staff had written. Bough said the ordinance could pass out of committee and be held on the floor so the conditions could be considered later while the tax increment financing plan catches up. Lucas moved do pass, noting the item would be heard by the full council on Thursday, September 3. Willett asked to be added as a co-sponsor. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
End of Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee Agenda
Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee
August 18th, 2026, 1:30 pm
The Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee was attended this week by Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw, Vice Chair Eric Bunch, Councilmember Andrea Bough, and Councilmember Nathan Willett, with Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley.
Staff present included Diane Binkley from the City Manager’s Office, Sarah Baxter from the Law Department, Travis Kiefer from KC Water, and staff from City Planning and Development.
260713
Approving the plat of Weatherby Meadows 2nd Plat, an addition in Platte County, Missouri, on approximately 7.6 acres generally located at the southeast corner of Northwest Barry Road and North Childress, creating 30 lots and 3 tracts for the purpose of a residential development; accepting various easements; establishing grades on public ways; authorizing the Director of City Planning and Development and the Director of Water Services to execute and/or accept certain agreements; and directing the City Clerk to facilitate the recordation of this ordinance and attached documents. (CLD-FnPlat-2026-00008)
Neighborhoods: KCI & 2nd Creek
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Final Plat, Staff Report, City Plan Commission Disposition, Stormwater Covenant
Result: Staff said the plat conforms with state statutes and city code and recommended approval. No questions, no public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass and placed on the consent agenda.
260712
Rezoning an area of about 0.5 acres from District B4-2 to District DX-5 generally located at the northeast corner of Washington Avenue and Avenida Caesar Chavez. (CD-CPC-2026-00083).
Neighborhoods: Westside, Crossroads
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Legal Description, Staff Report, City Plan Commission Presentation, City Plan Commission Disposition, Committee Presentation
Result: Matthew Barnes of City Planning and Development presented. The site is 2131 Washington, three parcels made up of two surface parking lots and a one-story office building on the north end, near Union Station and just south of Southwest Boulevard. The applicant is not proposing any development now; the rezoning to downtown mixed-use aligns the property with the Greater Downtown Area Plan, which the 4th District planner, Luke Ranker, rated as high alignment. The applicant held a public engagement meeting on July 29 with two attendees, and five members of the public testified in opposition at the City Plan Commission over the lack of a development plan and existing parking pressure on the street. Bough confirmed with staff that no development plan is required at this stage. Travis Wilson of Veritas Architecture and Design, the project architect, appeared to answer questions but was not asked any. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260717
RESOLUTION – Directing the City Manager to review the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act and existing City housing and development policies and to identify and implement appropriate policy and administrative changes and recommend additional legislative changes to the City Council within 120 days.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley
Attachments: Memo
Result: Parks-Shaw summarized the resolution as a companion to a presentation the council had already received in business session the week before. Patterson Hazley arrived during the item and said the business session had covered it. No questions, no public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260677
Rezoning an area of about 7.6 acres generally located at 12220 N.W. Skyview Avenue from District AG-R to District B4-1 and approving a development plan to allow for a variety of uses and multiple buildings on one lot. (CD-CPC-2026-00028 & CD-CPC-2026-00027)
Neighborhoods: KCI & 2nd Creek
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Staff Report, City Plan Commission Presentation, Approved Plans, Disposition, Development Plan, Disposition, Rezoning, Rezoning Exhibit, Committee Presentation
Result: Read and heard together with 260682. Genevieve Kahn-Smith of City Planning and Development presented the case for The Hub, a former school building converted by its owner into mixed-use community space with offices, a gym, and religious assembly uses, alongside a second 9,000 square foot building used for indoor storage. Multiple principal uses and buildings were established on the lot without proper zoning, and the case originated from zoning violations. The applicant has removed many of the recreational vehicles, trailers, and boats stored outdoors and has identified areas to be paved for accessory outdoor storage. A separate variance case is pending at the Board of Zoning Adjustment for the amount of gravel on the site, which is permitted in agricultural residential zoning but not in B4. Staff recommended denial at both City Plan Commission hearings; the commission continued the case the first time to let the applicant work with staff, then recommended approval of only the eastern parcel abutting Northwest Skyview, dropping a proposed new building from the rezoning.
Willet said he had spoken with the applicant, who asked for a hold and had not expected the item to be heard that day. He added that he would be on the side of staff and denial at this point, that he has sympathy for legally operating businesses caught in the wrong zone, but that he would want the applicant present to explain in public. Willett said the building sits in his district, that repurposing the old school has helped the area, that the city has used the space for community meetings, and that the applicant has been communicating closely with staff and the district office. Held to September 1 at the applicant’s request.
260682
Approving an amendment to the KCI Area Plan on about 7.6 acres generally located at 12220 N.W. Skyview Avenue by changing the recommended land use from Neighborhood 1 to Business Center for The Hub. (CD-CPC-2026-00029)
Neighborhoods: KCI & 2nd Creek
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Staff Report, City Plan Commission Presentation, Disposition, Committee Presentation
Result: Read and heard together with 260677 as its companion area plan amendment. Held to September 1 at the applicant’s request.
End of Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee Agenda
City Plan Commission
August 19th, 2026, 9 am
The City Plan Commission was attended this week by Commissioners Arkin, Crowl, Enders, Forbes II, Hasek, Lynch, and Padilla. Commissioner Murrell was absent. Sara Copeland introduced each case.
CD-SUP-2026-00039, American Red Cross Blood Center
A request to approve a Special Use Permit to site a blood/plasma center within an existing commercial strip mall on about 14.5 acres generally located at 8600 N Boardwalk Ave.
Neighborhoods: Coves North
Applicant: Douglas Stone of Lewis Rice
Result: Connor Tomlin presented on behalf of staff planner Ahnna Nanoski. Medical office is permitted by right in commercial and office districts, but a blood and plasma center requires a special use permit in B3 districts and up. No exterior changes are proposed, only interior work, and staff said peak hours for the center will fall outside the peak hours of the surrounding restaurant and retail uses. Claire Burns of Lewis Rice appeared for the American Red Cross with senior project manager Tanner Seales online. No public testimony. Approved with conditions, 7 to 0.
CD-SUP-2025-00039, Quick Stop Motors
A request to approve a special use permit to allow for Used Vehicular Sales in district B3-2 on about 0.6 acres generally located at southeast corner of East Bannister Road and Holmes Road.
Neighborhoods: Willow Creek
Applicant: Dana Blay of DBL Architecture + INC
Result: Justin Smith presented. The Board of Zoning Adjustment denied a special use permit for outdoor auto sales here in March 2019, then approved one on rehearing in October 2019 for two years, which expired in 2021. A zoning compliance case followed in 2024 for operating light equipment sales and rental without a permit. Because the permit lapsed, the newer used vehicle sales ordinance now applies, capping display at one vehicle per 200 square feet of lot area and requiring vehicles to sit in marked spaces. Staff added a condition limiting the site to vehicle sales rather than outdoor storage and recommended a two-year term. Commissioners pressed the applicant on a 2024 aerial photograph showing roughly 150 cars packed onto the lot; the owner said the site was overrun during the 2019 and 2020 shutdown, when catalytic converters and wiring were cut from about 60 vehicles, and that he now keeps roughly 41 cars there. Commissioners discussed conditioning the count further but concluded the fire department’s access conditions and the existing ordinance were sufficient, while telling the applicant plainly that a repeat of the 2024 condition would likely sink a renewal. No public testimony. Approved with conditions, 6 to 1, with Forbes II voting no.
CD-CPC-2026-00104, Abner Building Rezoning
A request to approve a rezoning from District M3-5 (Manufacturing) to District DX-10 (Downtown Mixed-Use) on about 0.25 acres generally located on West 11th Street, between Liberty Street and Hickory Street.
Neighborhoods: West Bottoms
Applicant: Samuel De Jong of De Jong Architecture Development
Result: Justin Smith presented. The applicant could have pursued a special use permit for a historically designated place, but chose rezoning and a project plan because of the number of units. The project plan comes back later this year. Samuel De Jong said his firm bought the Abner Chemical Building at the end of June and plans a historic redevelopment with roughly 25 residential units and ground floor commercial space. No area plan amendment is required because the Greater Downtown Area Plan already recommends downtown mixed use here. No public testimony. Approved without conditions, 7 to 0.
CD-CPC-2026-00094, Dillons Food Stores Twin Creeks
A request to approve a Major Amendment in District MPD (Master Planned Development) on about 14 acres generally located at the southwest corner of Tiffany Springs Road and North Platte Purchase Drive, allowing for the addition of a grocery store.
Neighborhoods: KCI & 2nd Creek
Applicant: Rachelle Biondo of Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C.
Result: Chair Crowl recused. Matthew Barnes presented a 99,000 square foot Dillons store with a fuel center on currently undeveloped ground, replacing a previously approved mix of retail, office, and restaurant buildings. The plan shows 437 parking spaces, two access points, pedestrian connections through the site, added transparency on the storefront, and extra screening along Highway 152 and around the fuel canopy. Two deviations were requested: building a fuel station about 120 feet from an existing one, where code requires 2,000 feet, and a maximum of 55.9 foot candles under the fuel canopy, where code allows 45.
Patricia Jensen appeared for the applicant with Sonny Cardemon of National Shopping Centers and Marvin Brown. Jensen and Brown said fuel is mandatory on all new Dillons sites and that the company will not build a store without it, and explained that the 800 square foot convenience store across the street exists in that form because of Costco deed restrictions on the property. Alan Holmbrecker, who owns that convenience store and fuel station now under construction, testified in opposition, saying he had been assured competition would be restricted, that a Casey’s built across from another of his stores cut his gallons and customer count by roughly half, and that approving this would put three fueling stations within 2,000 feet in a development that has landed only one restaurant. Rick Oddo, who owns the subject ground and much of the land around it, testified in support online, saying Costco is not opposing the fuel station, that Dillons is the anchor he needs to attract restaurants, and that the canopy lighting would not affect the apartments he plans to the west.
Commissioners were sympathetic to Homebrecker but said the 2,000 foot separation rule was written around safety and neighborhood impacts rather than competition, that business competition is outside the commission’s purview, and that staff had recommended the same deviation for the Dillons at North Oak and Shoal Creek. Several said they would rather not risk losing a grocery store over fuel pumps. Staff confirmed the fuel pumps run 24 hours while the small convenience store keeps store hours. Approved with conditions, 6 to 0, with Crowl recusing.
CD-ROW-2026-00006, Black Box Theatre Vacation
A request to approve a vacation of public right-of-way in District M3-5 (manufacturing) on about 62,506 square feet generally located at the southwest corner of Forester Via and Union Avenue.
Neighborhoods: West Bottoms
Applicant: Dominic Baldin
Result: Taken up with the other continuances at the top of the docket. No public testimony. Continued without fee to September 2, 2026.
CD-CPC-2026-00098, Kansas City Composting & Tree Recycling Facility Development Plan
A request to approve a non-residential development plan for a composting and tree recycling facility in an M3-5 zoning district on about 37.73 acres generally located at 9001 Troost Ave.
Neighborhoods: Boone Hills / Legacy East
Applicant: Zachary Person of SCS Engineers
Result: Alec Gustafson presented. A 2014 special use permit already allows tree recycling on the site; this is the same use under a new owner, and staff and the applicant both emphasized that no composting is proposed under this plan despite the case title. The plan adds a retail area near Troost and an office building, keeps gravel drive areas under an alternative compliance parking plan with the first 25 feet paved, and requires no tree mitigation. Notices went to 28 addresses within 300 feet.
Adam Carlson of Rouse Frets White appeared with Austin Quick of SCS Engineers and Patrick Geraty, president of Kansas City Composting, online. Geraty said the company is a Missouri family business that also runs St. Louis Composting, entered the Kansas City market in 2019, and operates in Belton and at the Lee’s Summit Resource Recovery Park. The first three to six months will be spent clearing existing tree debris, much of which will be trucked to Belton. After that, grinding is expected about one week a month, roughly 7 am to 4 pm, within overall operating hours of 7 am to 5 pm on weekdays and 7 am to 3 pm on Saturdays, with about 20 to 25 customer drop-offs a day and roughly 12 semi loads leaving during cleanup.
Jim Brady, who lives north of the site, testified that the tree buffer is not wide enough, that the change has driven off wildlife and neighbors, and asked that the 30-foot debris piles be left in place or moved east as a visual and noise barrier rather than hauled away. The applicant said the piles have to go because they block circulation and are a spontaneous combustion fire hazard, and offered to look at evergreens or a mulch berm along the north line. Commissioners noted about 14 acres of trees will remain, encouraged the applicant to work with neighbors on winter screening, and told residents to contact the city if noise exceeds allowable levels. Approved with conditions, 7 to 0.
CD-CPC-2026-00093, Belmont Apartments UR Rezoning
A request to approve a rezoning from UR to UR for the re-development of an existing 6-story apartment building on about 1.684 acres generally located at 911 E Linwood Blvd.
Neighborhoods: Hyde Park
Applicant: Jon Klocke of SWD Architects
Result: Taken up with the other continuances at the top of the docket. No public testimony. Continued without fee to September 2, 2026.
CD-CPC-2026-00121, Children’s Mercy Campus MPD Correction
A request to approve a rezoning from district MPD (Master Planned Development) to district R-0.5 on about 7.196 acres generally located at the northeast corner of 23rd and Locust St (2201 Gillham Rd), the northwest corner of 24th and Holmes St (2310 Holmes St), and the west side of Holmes St between 24th St and 25th St (685 E 24th St and 650 E 25th St).
Neighborhoods: Hospital Hill/Longfellow
Result: Taken up with the other continuances at the top of the docket. No public testimony. Continued without fee to September 2, 2026.
CD-CPC-2026-00057, Uhaul Ubox
A request to approve a major amendment to a previously approved development plan in District B4-5 (Heavy Business/Commercial) to allow for the expansion of a self-storage facility on about 6.7 acres generally located at northwest corner of Northwest Prairie View Road and Northwest Donovan Drive.
Neighborhoods: Prairie Point-Wildberry
Applicant: Lance Scott of Cook, Flatt & Strobel Engineers, P.A.
Result: Taken up with the other continuances at the top of the docket. No public testimony. Continued without fee to September 16, 2026.
End of City Planning Commission Agenda
City Council
August 20th, 2026, 2 pm
The session was attended this week by Councilmember Kevin O’Neill, Councilmember Nathan Willett, Councilmember Lindsay French, Councilmember Wes Rogers, Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley, Councilmember Melissa Robinson, Councilmember Crispin Rea, Councilmember Eric Bunch, Councilmember Darrell Curls, Councilmember Ryana Parks-Shaw, Councilmember Andrea Bough, Councilmember Johnathan Duncan, and Mayor Quinton Lucas
260716
RESOLUTION – Directing the City Manager to identify funding opportunities that will enhance City-funded affordable housing projects and report back to Council within 90 days.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmember Darrell Curls
Attachments: Memo
Result: Bough presented, noting that voters approved $100,000,000.00 in general obligation bonds for affordable housing on August 4 and that the resolution asks the city manager to find additional money to leverage alongside the housing trust fund. No further discussion. Adopted, 13 to 0.
260719
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE – Authorizing the City Manager to execute a petition to establish the Riverfront Community Improvement District and establishing a policy for the acceptance of partial tax parcels within the boundaries of a community improvement district.
Neighborhoods: Columbus Park / Berkley Riverfront
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute
Result: Bough explained that state law requires a petition signed by property owners, that some Berkley Riverfront owners intend to file one, and that city code bars the city manager from signing on the city’s behalf as a property owner without council authorization. The substitute also allows a partial parcel to be included when all property owners are filing. No further discussion. Adopted, 13 to 0.
260717
RESOLUTION – Directing the City Manager to review the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act and existing City housing and development policies and to identify and implement appropriate policy and administrative changes and recommend additional legislative changes to the City Council within 120 days.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley
Attachments: Memo
Result: Parks-Shaw presented, framing the resolution as a way to position the city to benefit from the federal housing act and to identify local barriers to housing production. Duncan thanked Patterson Hazley for her leadership and said the city is well positioned to take advantage of it. Adopted, 13 to 0.
260713
Approving the plat of Weatherby Meadows 2nd Plat, an addition in Platte County, Missouri, on approximately 7.6 acres generally located at the southeast corner of Northwest Barry Road and North Childress, creating 30 lots and 3 tracts for the purpose of a residential development; accepting various easements; establishing grades on public ways; authorizing the Director of City Planning and Development and the Director of Water Services to execute and/or accept certain agreements; and directing the City Clerk to facilitate the recordation of this ordinance and attached documents. (CLD-FnPlat-2026-00008)
Neighborhoods: KCI & 2nd Creek
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Final Plat, Staff Report
Result: Taken up on the advanced consent docket after the charter reading requirement was waived. No discussion. Passed, 13 to 0.
260704
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE – Authorizing the City Manager to execute a lease, development agreement, community impact partnership agreement, and funding agreement with the Kansas City Royals or an affiliated entity for design, construction, and operations of a new stadium, team offices, and supporting infrastructure (the “Project”) in the Washington Square Park/Crown Center area; authorizing the execution of additional cooperative agreements in connection with the lease, development agreement, and funding agreement; authorizing the City Manager to execute intergovernmental cooperative agreements with the State of Missouri and related entities; authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a non-relocation agreement; establishing Fund No. 3459, the Special Obligation Downtown Stadium Bond Fund; estimating and appropriating bond proceeds in the amount of $20,000,000.00 for the purpose of providing a portion of the City’s contribution to the Project; providing direction to the City Manager on the funding sources for the Project and future debt service; reaffirming the City’s intent to provide funding totaling $600,000,000.00 toward the Project; authorizing the execution of additional agreements as necessary to comply with the directives of this ordinance; reaffirming the Council’s intent to waive the contract solicitation and Article IV, Chapter 3, requirements otherwise set out in the Code of Ordinances as to the agreements authorized in this Ordinance; waiving the requirements of Section 88-586-01 through 88-586-07; waiving the requirements of Ordinance No. 60321 with respect to the Project; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Crossroads, Crown Center, Longfellow, Union Hill
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Appropriation Ordinance, Revised Community Impact Partnership Agreement, Stadium Lease, Funding Agreement, Development Agreement, Committee Substitute
Result: Bough presented, reciting the council’s earlier commitments under Committee Substitute for Ordinance 260339 as amended, Resolution 230656, and Ordinance 260032, and noting the council retains oversight and final approval authority over the agreements.
Duncan opened the debate by asking how the council can authorize bonds without the third-party financial analysis, which he said was still two or three weeks out. Bough responded that this is the development framework rather than the financing package, that the actual financing mechanism returns to the council through the tax increment financing plan, and that the only committee changes were to the community impact partnership agreement and only affected how funds are used. Lucas added that the committee substitute on the clerk’s website is limited to the community impact agreement, covering youth sports, housing investment, and spreading the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum contribution across the term rather than paying it up front. He said the zoning comes back the first week of September, bond authorization requires a separate ordinance, and the Tax Increment Financing Commission would publish its full application the next day ahead of a public hearing, with third-party analyses preceding both the tax increment financing and bond votes.
Duncan pressed on the Kansas City Public Schools agreement, which the city manager confirmed is between the team and the district rather than part of the community impact agreement. Lucas said a verbal hold-harmless agreement exists with roughly 3 percent annual escalation but is not executed, that payment in lieu of taxes agreements are usually documented at the time the financing incentive is approved, and that he wants that assurance ironclad before the tax increment financing vote.
Duncan said he could not support the ordinance in its current form: the benefits package is incomplete, 5 percent of non-baseball revenue is not commensurate with the city’s risk, ancillary development is excluded from the redirections, the general fund is on the line, and $5,000,000.00 for homelessness and $5,000,000.00 for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum are too small for a deal of this size. He urged colleagues to vote no and keep negotiating. Rogers called it one of the best days in decades for the city, citing the Service Employees International Union agreement, prevailing wage construction work, roughly 3,000,000 additional visits downtown a year, and Bob Kendrick’s support for the deal. Lucas closed by saying he has faith the council will do its work at the zoning, bond, and tax increment financing votes still to come, and commended staff for four and a half months of work. Passed, 11 to 2.
260712
Rezoning an area of about 0.5 acres from District B4-2 to District DX-5 generally located at the northeast corner of Washington Avenue and Avenida Caesar Chavez. (CD-CPC-2026-00083).
Neighborhoods: Westside
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Staff Report, Legal Description
Result: Parks-Shaw presented, noting the site is three lots with two used for surface parking and the northern parcel holding a one-story office building, that no development is proposed, and that the rezoning requires no accompanying plan. No further discussion. Passed.
260705
Rezoning an area of about 68 acres generally located south of Pershing Road, west of Gillham Road, north of E. 27th Street, and east of Main Street from Districts UR, B4-5, and M1-5 to District UR and approving a development plan, also serving as a preliminary plat, to allow for a ballpark district. (CD-CPC-2026-00100).
Neighborhoods: Crossroads – Crown Center – Longfellow – Union Hill
Sponsor(s): Councilmembers Andrea Bough and Kevin O’Neill, and Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Staff Report, Public Testimony to City Plan Commission
Result: Handled as a second reading. Parks-Shaw moved to waive the charter requirement for reading on three separate days for all second reading items and place them on the docket for final reading at the next session, which passed 13 to 0. The committee had signaled the ballpark district rezoning would be heard September 3, leaving time for the applicant’s proposed condition language and the tax increment financing plan to catch up. Advanced to final reading.
260740
Authorizing the City Manager to act as the City’s representative to apply for, accept, and execute grant agreements with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission that aid in the development of Missouri transportation issues in accordance with the Federal Highway Administration’s Surface Transportation Program, the Federal Aid Urban Program, the Federal-Aid Highway Act, the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Act, the Surface Transportation Enhancement Funds Program, the Transportation Community and System Preservation Program, Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity Grant Program, Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects, Accelerated Innovation Deployment Demonstration Program, Carbon Reduction Program, Highway Infrastructure Program, and any additional federally-funded programs administered by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC); and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: City Manager’s Office
Attachments: Memo
Result: O’Neill asked the council to take the ordinance out of order from first reading because a state grant deadline falls around September 7, before the council’s next session. Bunch asked why it had not come sooner, saying the call for proposals had been out for a while and that he would like the city to be more proactive about federal transportation grants. The city manager said this is a technicality: earlier ordinances authorized the director of public works to sign these agreements, the city changed its protocol on who signs grant agreements over the past six months, and the Missouri Department of Transportation would not recognize his signature authority. Both the waiver motion and the ordinance passed 13 to 0. Passed, 13 to 0.
End of Council Agenda
Dan Baldwin is the author of This Week at City Hall, a current Urban Planning & Design student at UMKC, a veteran, former Kansas Realtor, a political activist & organizer, and local musician. Dan is passionate about building a better future through policy design and how it interacts with our built environment and lived experiences and is confident that his time as the Center for Neighborhood’s intern will help him grow in those passions and be an opportunity for communal growth as well.
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