
“I am concerned with the City funding developer’s responsibilities,” he wrote in an email to council members. Pat Klein, the city’s aviation director who retires at the end of the month, warned the council about spending city funds to aid the private parking operation. Legislation introduced by three Northland Council members would direct City Manager Brian Platt to come up with a plan to fund and construct two new traffic circles off of Interstate 29 to help the new development about a mile from Kansas City International Airport.

The Star invested far too many words attempting to play nice around a very uncomfortable fact of life. INSIDERS BELIEVE MAYOR & COUNCIL OPPOSITION AGAINST THIS PROJECT IS ALL ABOUT SILLY SEASON POLITICKING!!!Īgain. Today the newspaper provides some good detail but here are the basics of the story that they they save until the last few graphs in a report that's FAR TOO LONG. Our TKC blog community covered this far more succinctly last week.

A story about development and politics is sold to newspaper readers as a treatise regarding incentives. The Northland is the future of Kansas City's growth right now.Īnd so.
