KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Historic Kansas City announced on Friday that it's part of a new partnership to collaboratively plan the future of Westport.
City Councilwoman Katheryn Shields established the strategic partnership between Historic Kansas City, the Westport Regional Business League, and the City Planning and Development Department.
The group will lead a collaborative community planning process that will define Westport's future vision.
Historic Kansas City wrote that the collaborative planning process will hopefully have three major impacts including maintaining the things people love about Westport, integrating Westport historic resources into the planning, and provide clarity for the future of the area.
The planning effort is hand in hand with a 6-month suspension that will pause major development applications from advancing to a full public hearing. The purpose of this is to establish a non-threatening context for the planning effort to succeed.
