Expansion of KCI 29 Logistics Park in the Northland, a new Gymnasium for New Mark Middle School, and a Zoning Code amendment to allow for temporary special event signage.
- Barrybrooke Village
- Forgotten Homes
- New Mark
- Northlake
- Northland
- Ward Parkway Plaza
City Plan Commission
Wednesday, January 21st at 9am
The City Plan Commission was attended this week by Chair Coby Crowl and Commissioners Matt Hasek, Sean Arkin, Luis Padilla, and Todd Forbes.
CD-CPC-2025-00150 requested approval of a Final Plan in an MPD (Master Planned Development) zoning district on about 7 acres and generally located 400 feet east of the southeast corner of Northwest Roanridge Road and Edgewood Farms Drive near the Northlake and Barrybrooke Village neighborhoods of the Northland, allowing for the creation of a religious assembly building.
This item was on the Commission’s consent agenda and was recommended for approval with little deliberation.
CD-CPC-2025-00203 requested approval of an extension of an MPD (Master Planned Development) Final Plan for the site known as Steeplechase located at the southeast corner of Highway-169 and Northwest 96th Street near the New Mark neighborhood of the Northland, allowing for the creation of 56 townhome units.
This item was on the Commission’s consent agenda and was recommended for approval with little deliberation.
CD-CPC-2025-00151 requested approval to amend and update the Major Street Plan.
The Commission moved to continue this item to February 18th without fee, ahead of the meeting, Wednesday.
CD-CPC-2025-00170 and CD-CPC-2025-169 requested approval of an amendment to the Major Street Plan to revise the alignment of Mexico City Avenue, from connecting to Highway 92 to connecting to North Bethel Avenue, along with approval of a major amendment to an approved MPD development plan. These requests were made to facilitate the expansion of the site known as KCI 29 Logistics Park, measuring about 2,500 acres and located in the Northland. Staff Planner Justin Smith and the applicant, Jacob Hodson – Olsson presented this item to the Commission.
The proposed development will include industrial uses akin to the development presently on the site (an ACE Hardware warehouse). The Commission moved to recommend approval of these items with little deliberation.
CD-SUP-2025-00046 requested approval of a Special Use Permit in an R-7.5 (Residential) zoning district on about 57 acres and located at the southeast corner of North Oak Trafficway and Northeast 106th Street in the New Mark neighborhood of the Northland, allowing for the addition of a gymnasium facility and accessory parking to New Mark Middle School. Staff Planner Matthew Barnes and the applicant, Braden Taylor – MKEC Engineering, Inc., presented this item to the Commission.
The proposed addition to the school would serve as a storm shelter in addition to a gymnasium. Forty-two additional parking spaces would be added as part of this development. In addition, the applicants were seeking a variance to signage standards, which permit one sign up to 20 square feet adjacent to an entrance of an institutional use (such as a school) in a residential district. The proposed sign would be engraved on the concrete across the wall of the gymnasium and measure 56.25 square feet. It would read the name of the school mascot (“Northstars”). The Commission moved to recommend approval of this item.
CD-SUP-2025-00045 requested approval of a special use permit in an Urban Transit Corridor within the Prospect Corridor Overlay to allow for an event center located at
the southeast corner of Euclid Avenue and East 12th Street in the Forgotten Homes neighborhood.
The Commission moved to continue this item to February 4th with fee, ahead of the meeting, Wednesday.
CD-CPC-2026-00001 requested approval of an amendment to section 88-370 of the Zoning and Development code, regarding temporary special event signage. Development Management Division Manager, Sara Copeland and Convention & Entertainment Facilities Executive Director, Kimiko Gilmore presented this item to the Commission.
This amendment changes “Special event building signage” as an authorized use under 88-370-05, with a time limit per permit of 120 consecutive days per permit.
Additionally, under 88-370-06-A (Standards applying to all temporary uses), number 7 will be edited to read “All temporary uses, not to include Special event building signage, are limited to a total of two temporary signs.”
Finally, a new section, 88-354-09 (Special Event Building Signage) will be added to clarify that temporary special event building signage may be approved during the period of a Major Event (such as the World Cup), subject to the following criteria:
- The temporary special event building signage shall not be permitted in R zoning districts (residential).
- … shall be a wall sign that meets all the requirements of Section 88-445-08-C, Wall Signs. No other sign type shall be permitted as temporary special event building signage.
- … shall not be included in calculating maximum number of wall signs permitted per Section 88-445-07.
- … may be permitted up to 80,000 square feet in sign area or the maximum area of the building facade to which it is affixed, whichever is less.
- … must be securely affixed to a building. When affixed to a building with a valid certificate of occupancy, signage shall not impede required means of egress or the function of mechanical or utility equipment.
This amendment is geared towards allowing temporary large-scale signage for the FIFA World Cup 2026 to assist with wayfinding, branding, and civic identity. Current zoning code doesn’t allow large-scale building wraps.
The Commission moved to recommend approval of this item.
CD-CPC-2025-00152 requested approval to amend Chapter 88, the Zoning and Development Code, by enacting a new section, 88-559 – Major Street Plan, to outline the process, procedure and establishing criteria for amending the major street plan.
This item was recommended for dismissal by Staff ahead of the meeting, Wednesday, and the Commission followed this recommendation.
CD-CPC-2025-00174, CD-CPC-2025-00167, and CD-SUP-2025-00040 requested approval of an amendment to the Country Club/Waldo Area Plan from Office/Residential to Mixed Use Community, approval of a rezoning from zoning districts B1-1, B3-2, and R-0.5 to zoning district B2-2, and approval of a special use permit to allow for a Culver’s on the site located at 7953 State Line Road in the Ward Parkway Plaza neighborhood.
The Commission moved to continue these items to February 18th without fee, ahead of the meeting, Wednesday.
Ben Robinson is the author of This Week at City Hall, and an Urban Planning and Design Student at UMKC. He is a Kansas City native, having lived on both sides of the state line. From a young age, Ben has been interested in neighborhoods, communities, and the built environment, but only discovered the field of Urban Planning in college. He is now committed to a career in the profession, and is excited about using his education to support and grow the city he grew up in.
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