A church, a water treatment plant, and a data center in the Northland.
- Boone Hills
- Bristol Park
- Fairfield
- Gregory Ridge
- Highland Acres-Lakeside Heights
- Marlborough
- NOBLE
- Northland
- Riverfront Industrial Area
- Robincrest Village
- Shoal Creek Valley
City Plan Commission
Wednesday, November 19th at 9am
The City Plan Commission was attended this week by Commissioners Forestine Beasley, Sean Arkin, Matt Hasek, Tyler Enders, Luis Padilla, and Todd Forbes.
CD-CPC-2025-00159 requested approval of an MPD Final Plan for Phase 3 of a data center campus on about 500 acres located at the northeast corner of I-435 and Highway 169 (12101 N Main St) near the Fairfield, Highland Acres-Lakeside Heights, and Bristol Park neighborhoods in the Northland.
This item was on the Commission’s consent agenda and was recommended for approval with little deliberation.
CD-CPC-2025-00158 requested approval of a project plan for an addition to the Veterans Community Building located at the southwest corner of East 89th Street and Troost Avenue (8900 Troost Ave) in the Boone Hills neighborhood.
This item was on the Commission’s consent agenda and was recommended for approval with little deliberation.
CD-CPC-2025-00166 requested approval of a Project Plan for Davidson Farms in the Shoal Creek overlay zoning district (SC) and located at the northeast corner of North Donnelly Avenue and Northeast 76th Street (City PIN: 293453) in the Shoal Creek Valley neighborhood in the Northland, to allow for the landscaping of private open space tracts.
This item was on the Commission’s consent agenda and was recommended for approval with little deliberation.
CLD-FnPlat-2025-00030 Woodhaven 3rd Plat – requested approval of a Final Plat in an MPD (Master Planned Development) zoning district for the site located at the northwest corner of Line Creek Parkway and Northwest 97th Street (3201 NW 100th St) near Platte Purchase Park and the Robincrest Village neighborhood in the Northland, allowing for the creation of 89 residential lots and 3 tracts.
This item was on the Commission’s consent agenda and was recommended for approval with little deliberation.
CD-CPC-2025-00083 requested approval of a development plan for utilities and services for the Todd Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in an AG-R zoning district and located at 7801 NW 144th Street & 14001 NW Interurban Rd in the Northland. Staff Planner Genevieve Kohn-Smith along with Sean Carl, Senior Project Manager – Water Services, and the applicant, Bryce Dickmeyer – Burns & McDonnell, presented this item before the Commission.
Per 88-270-02-A, in AG-R zoning districts, construction of a site built for the purposes of providing utilities and services is conditioned with review and approval of a development plan.
The proposed wastewater treatment plant is expected to cover a building area of 71,576 sq ft, and will include one basin, with three additional basins proposed in future expansions.
The Commission moved to recommend approval of this item.
CD-CPC-2025-00135 – requested approval of a development plan serving in place of a special use permit to allow a religious assembly development (Journey Church) in an R-10 zoning district for the site located at 9600 NE Reinking Road near the Shoal Creek Valley neighborhood in the Northland. Staff Planner Genevieve Kohn-Smith along with the applicant, Patricia Jensen – Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C., presented this item before the Commission.
The proposed development would include a 22,879 sq ft church with 222 parking spaces, and would have one point of access off of NE Shoal Creek Pkwy.
As part of the submitted plans, the applicant was also proposing to extend an existing water main that runs to the north of the site so that it can serve the Church. This extension would be paid for by the applicant, which was not contested. However, as a condition on the development, City Staff were requiring that the applicant pay for further extension of the water main along the property’s frontage on NE Reinking Rd and NE Shoal Creek Pkwy. This further extension was contested by the applicant.
Travis Keifer, P.E. – KC Water, explained that the Water Main Extension Rules and Regulations state that, “Water mains shall be designed to extend to the boundary lines and corners of each subdivision of land, and to provide access for water service to every lot in a subdivision, along public street right-of-way.” Therefore, in order to build the proposed extension to serve the Church, the applicant would be required to pay for those water main improvements along the two streets that the Church fronts.
Rules such as these are often implemented to mitigate costs to the taxpayer (or water service ratepayer, in this case) when development occurs. These groups are only responsible for paying to maintain existing water infrastructure, Mr. Keifer explained, not new construction.
However, Ms. Jensen contested the requirement extending the water main along both roads, deeming it to be inappropriate in this case as none of that infrastructure would serve the Church’s needs. Commissioner Beasley asked if future development on the site was planned, which could inform the need for the required extension. Ms. Jensen responded that while future development may be forthcoming, it should not affect the requirement to extend the water main to the City’s specifications. If and when such future development is proposed, perhaps then a larger extension may be more appropriate, she stated.
Commissioner Enders noted that while it was important for the Commission to apply legislation evenly across all cases, and while approving the applicants’ requests may risk setting precedent against those regulations, the City Plan Commission (CPC) exists precisely for the purpose of making exceptions in special circumstances. To that end, he continued, he recognized that an institution like a Church may have difficulty raising funds, and that this requirement could stall development. He also recognized that there is no guarantee that future developments would populate near the subject site and make use of the extended water main.
After much discussion, the Commission moved to recommend approval of the requested item. The CPC also modified City Staff’s condition that the water main be extended along NE Reinking Rd and NE Shoal Creek Pkwy to instead only the extension that serves the proposed development (condition 25). and removing Staff’s condition that the west half of NE Reinking Rd be otherwise improved with curbs, gutters, sidewalks, etc. at the expense of the applicant (condition 21).
CD-CPC-2025-00141 requested approval of amendments to Section 88-354 regarding hours of operation for marijuana dispensary facilities.
The Commission moved to continue this item to December 3rd, without fee, ahead of the meeting, Wednesday.
CD-CPC-2025-00151 and CD-CPC-2025-00152 requested approval to amend and update the Major Street Plan, and 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.
The Commission moved to continue these items to December 17th, without fee, ahead of the meeting, Wednesday.
CD-ROW-2025-00036 requested approval of a vacation of a portion of public right-of-way of about 35,000 square feet located on North Olive Street between Rochester Avenue and Nicholson Avenue in the Riverfront Industrial District.
The Commission moved to continue this item to December 3rd, without fee, ahead of the meeting, Wednesday.
CD-SUP-2025-00022 requested approval of a special use permit for outdoor warehousing storage for commercial vehicle, equipment parking, and material storage (All Storage KC) in zoning districts M1-5 and M3-5 and located at the terminus of E 78th Street west of the Union Pacific Railroad, specifically located at 3901 E 78th Street near the Marlborough, NOBLE, and Gregory Ridge neighborhoods.
The Commission moved to continue this item to December 17th, without fee, ahead of the meeting, Wednesday.
CD-CPC-2025-00147 and CD-CPC-2025-00148 requested approval of a two preliminary plats in zoning districts B3-3 and R-2.5, for the purposes of creating multiple mixed used, multi-tenant buildings; the first plat being located on the west side of N Winter Avenue, between NW 87th Street on the north and NW 86th Place on the south , and the second plat being located on the north sides of NW Prairie View Road and NW 87th Terrace, between N Winter Avenue on the east and N Dixson Avenue on the west, in the shopping district known as Zona Rosa in the Northland.
The Commission moved to recommend dismissal of these items, ahead of the meeting, Wednesday, as the preliminary plats were previously reviewed by the Development Review Committee, and did not need to be brought before the City Plan Commission.
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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