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KCMO wants to hide its blight abuses

May 1, 2008 |

Prime Buzz has an interesting bit about how the City Council has killed the City Auditors plan to produce a map of the city showing TIF districts in relation to blighted neighborhoods. That is because they already know that the map will look pretty damning. An August 2007 series by the KC Star already tells us that less than 1% of TIF subsidies grant since 2005 have gone to the East Side.

Councilmember Deb Hermann argues that TIF projects like the massive Shoal Creek subdivision and strip mall are good for the East Side because they bring in revenue that can be used to help blighted neighborhoods.  If that is true, then we dare the Councilmember to show us the data on how much Shoal Creek money has been spent fixing up the broken infrastructure and dangerous buildings on the East Side. Surely they have that number in a spreadsheet somewhere.


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  1. Eastsider on May 2, 2008 2:49 pm

    http://bloch.umkc.edu/centers-institutes/lpcookingham/projects/kc-housing-task-force/download.aspx?id=1220

    This is a link to a set of maps that show all the TIF, LCRA, 353, Urban Renewal, and PIEA projects along with vacant parcels and land trust lots. It gives you a good idea of where active development could go, and where it is not happening. Just because a TIF district exists or an urban renewal area is designated, does not mean that anything has happened there.

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