Kansas City looks to enhance transit-oriented development along Prospect bus line

The Kansas Metropolis Council on Thursday authorised a $500,000 contract to review reinvestment and growth alongside the Prospect MAX bus route.

The council voted 10-3 in favor of the ordinance, with Councilmembers Theresa Loar, Dan Fowler and Brandon Ellington voting no. They didn’t clarify their votes.

The contract requires Gould Evans, an structure agency in Kansas Metropolis, to arrange a strategic plan centered on transit-oriented growth stretching north to south from twelfth Avenue to seventy fifth Avenue alongside Prospect Avenue.

The aim of transit-oriented growth is to construct residential, enterprise and leisure house inside strolling distance of public transit, the purpose being to advertise better use of public transit. Alongside the 10-mile-long Prospect line, that would come with mixed-use and infill growth, better bike and pedestrian entry, and improved infrastructure.

Town obtained $400,000 from the Federal Transit Administration, an company inside the U.S. Division of Transportation, and will probably be contributing a further $100,000 to assist the mission. The federal funds are a part of a pilot program that gives funding to communities to combine transportation planning and land use round main transit strains.

The mission will embody engagement classes with residents, enterprise homeowners and different stakeholders situated alongside the Prospect transit line. The strategic plan additionally requires figuring out methods to finance initiatives alongside the transit line.

Reinvestment alongside the Prospect Avenue line will comply with Kansas Metropolis’s Transit-Oriented Growth Coverage, which was authorised in 2017. The coverage guides growth alongside transit routes just like the Prospect MAX bus line to advertise density and incentivize mixed-use growth.