Wyandotte County calls for drastically reduced STAR Bond district

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — There are important meetings Tuesday night regarding the future home of the Chiefs. Late in December, the team announced they planned to build a new stadium in the western portion of Wyandotte County, near I-70 and I-435.

If you want to weigh in on the city giving back some of its future sales tax revenue back to paying off the stadium development, you need to show up to Kansas City, Kansas, City Hall for Tuesday night’s meeting that starts at 5:30 p.m.

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The commission won’t vote on this issue until Thursday at 5:30 pm, but after talking with Unified Government of Wyandotte County Administrator David Johnston Monday, he wants the state and the local sales tax increment to be a much smaller portion of the county.

Johnston wants portions of the area east of 126th Street and west of 118th Street, north of State Avenue to be in the Sales Tax and Revenue (STAR) Bond District, not all of Wyandotte County. Drivers currently can’t go north of State Avenue on 118th Street. The road’s closed…

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