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UR, URBAN REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

Kansas City Zoning and Development Code pt. 200 Series, div. 88-260
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Kansas City Zoning and Development Code § 88-260-01 PURPOSE

88-260-01 - PURPOSE The purpose of the UR, Urban Redevelopment district is to promote development and redevelopment of underdeveloped and blighted sections of the city and to accommodate flexibility in design to help ensure realization of the stated purposes of an approved plan for redevelopment. UR districts are further intended to promote the following objectives: 88-260-01-A. a more efficient and effective relationship among land use activities; 88-260-01-B. preservation and enhancement of natural, cultural and architectural resources and features; 88-260-01-C. enhancement of redevelopment areas to accommodate effective redevelopment; and 88-260-01-D. seamless and compatible integration of redevelopment projects into the development patterns that exist or that are planned to exist within the subject area.

Kansas City Zoning and Development Code § 88-260-02 REZONING PROCEDURE; ELIGIBILITY FOR UR ZONING

88-260-02 - REZONING PROCEDURE; ELIGIBILITY FOR UR ZONING 88-260-02-A. A preapplication consultation is required in accordance with 88-505-02 prior to the filing of a zoning map amendment application to District UR. 88-260-02-B. Property may be rezoned to the UR district in accordance with the zoning map amendment procedures of 88-515, except as modified by the specific provisions of this article. An application for an urban redevelopment district must be accompanied by a preliminary development plan. The plan must include information as required by city planning and development department staff. 88-260-02-C. The UR district may be applied only to property that has been designated as a blighted area, a conservation area, or an economic development area. 88-260-02-D. Designation of an area as a blighted area, a conservation area, or an economic development area must follow the provisions of the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Law (RSMo 99.300), Real Property Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment (RSMo 99.800), Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (RSMo ch. 353) or Planned Industrial Expansion Authority (RSMo 100.300). 88-260-02-E. Designation as a blighted area, a conservation area, or an economic development area and approval of a plan for redevelopment should occur simultaneously with the processing of a zoning map amendment to the UR district and city plan commission review. The city plan commission must conduct a public hearing on the application for UR zoning and forward its recommendation to city council. 88-260-02-F. An application for a UR district may not be considered by the city council until after the statutory agency has recommended the declaration of the area as a blighted area, a conservation area, or an economic development area and has recommended approval of the a plan for the redevelopment of the property.

Kansas City Zoning and Development Code § 88-260-03 USE REGULATIONS AND LOT AND BUILDING STANDARDS

88-260-03 - USE REGULATIONS AND LOT AND BUILDING STANDARDS Properties within the UR district are subject to the use regulations and lot and building standards established at the time of preliminary development plan approval by the city council. The use and development standards established for the subject UR district must be in general conformance with the approved area plan and be compatible with desirable land use and development patterns in the surrounding area. Short-term rental use as defined in Chapter 56 of this code of ordinances shall be allowed as follows: (1) non-resident short term rentals as defined in Chapter 56 of this code of ordinances shall be allowed subject to the requirements of Chapter 56 of this code of ordinances, including the prohibition on non-resident short term rentals operating in structures or on a parcel that receives any City incentives, when a previously approved UR preliminary development plan is not exclusively comprised of uses in the residential use group as defined by Section 88-805-02 of this zoning and development code, or in the case of a proposed UR preliminary development plan when such plan is not exclusively comprised of uses in the residential use group as defined by Section 88-805-02 of this zoning and development code and when the Council expressly authorizes non-resident short term rentals when approving the UR preliminary development plan. In the event that an UR preliminary development plan is later amended to remove the non-residential use component of the plan, or in the event a final UR plan proposes removing the non-residential use component of the plan, non-resident short term rentals shall not be allowed. (2) resident short-term rentals as defined in Chapter 56 of this code of ordinances shall be allowed. (Ord. No. 170771, § 1, 2-22-2018; Ord. No. 230267, § 2, 5-4-2023)

Kansas City Zoning and Development Code § 88-260-04 OTHER DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS

88-260-04 - OTHER DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS Properties within the UR district are subject to the development standards found within the 400 Series of this zoning and development code unless otherwise expressly approved by the city council at the time of preliminary development plan approval.

Kansas City Zoning and Development Code § 88-260-05 DEVELOPMENT PLANS

88-260-05 - DEVELOPMENT PLANS 88-260-05-A. No building permit may be issued for development in the UR district until a final development plan has been approved by the city planning and development department director, except that: 1. a building permit may be issued for nonconforming uses and structures without an approved final development plan; or 2. the owner of any property that is the subject of eminent domain but that has not been acquired by the condemning authority may continue to use the property for any use existing immediately preceding establishment of UR district. At the time of request for a permit, the property owner must file an affidavit with the city planning and development director stating that the property owner is not in any way affiliated with the condemning authority and further has no intention of securing any of the benefits provided under the plan for redevelopment approved pursuant to the declaration of blight. 88-260-05-B. The final development plan must be reviewed for compliance with the preliminary development plan approved by city council at the time of rezoning to the UR district. If it is determined that the final development plan does not conform to the requirements of the preliminary development plan approved by city council at the time of rezoning, the city planning and development director must notify the developer in writing of the specific deficiencies that exist. Upon receipt of the notice of noncompliance, the developer has the following options: 1. correct the final development plan to conform to the approved preliminary development plan; 2. file a preliminary development plan amendment request pursuant to 88-260-06; or 3. file an appeal of the final development plan review decision in accordance with 88-530-12.

Kansas City Zoning and Development Code § 88-260-06 AMENDMENTS TO APPROVED PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLANS

88-260-06 - AMENDMENTS TO APPROVED PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLANS 88-260-06-A. In the course of carrying out any part of the development plan for a UR district, the developer may submit a request for an amendment of the approved preliminary development plan. Requests to amend a preliminary development plan must be processed as a zoning map amendment in accordance with 88-515, except that the city planning and development director is authorized to approve minor amendments to UR district preliminary development plans in accordance with the administrative adjustment procedures of 88-570 (see specifically, 88-570-02-H). 88-260-06-B. If any development plan covering all or a portion of a UR district is abandoned, or if any phase is not completed within the time frame established at the time of rezoning and preliminary development plan approval, or if the required declaration of blighted area, conservation area, or economic development area is declared null and void by any court of competent jurisdiction, the city planning and development director may recommend that the area be rezoned to its former or other appropriate classification. (Ord. No. 250327, § 2, 5-1-2025)
Source: City of Kansas City, Missouri, Code of Ordinances, Charter and Zoning and Development Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/mo/kansas_city/codes/zoning_and_development_code?nodeId=ZODECOKAMI_200_SERIESOVSPPUDI_88-260URURREDIFetched: 10/28/2026

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