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The Westport district is incredibly economically productive for the city, business owners, neighbors, property owners, and patrons, but it faces the typical challenges of any rapidly evolving neighborhood. With a popular historic entertainment destination at its core, the community recognized a need to manage growing redevelopment pressures, accessibility needs, and preservation. As a continually evolving district, the Westport District Master Plan is a neighborhood-scale “form-based plan” providing direction for both public and private improvements in order to support the physical qualities and attributes that make Westport unique and valuable.
The Westport District Master Plan, organized by the plan components, physically characterizes and offers specific recommendations to guide public and private improvements in each distinct context of the overall district. This organization guided the implementation discussion to support the desired evolution of the different contexts, or places, of Westport.
The implementation strategy of the plan recognizes a need for strategic rezoning, local historic designation, and various overlay districts afforded by Kansas City, Missouri to achieve its vision. The rezoning strategy identifies specific properties in most need of expanded or reduced development form or use and provides a more appropriate zoning category to guide future development. The plan recognizes the residential potential as a priority for historic districts designation to maintain the rare context of Westport’s limited residential neighborhoods and outlines the process and responsibilities for initiating that process.
