A Kansas City council committee on Tuesday will get its first look at a proposed ordinance aimed at stopping unlicensed businesses from hosting after-hours events that lead to violent incidents.
The city’s Finance, Governance and Public Safety committee is scheduled to consider the proposal that would declare businesses operating without required licenses or permits to be considered a nuisance. That would allow the city to use its current nuisance enforcement regulations against the illegally operating businesses.
Mayor Quinton Lucas proposed the ordinance earlier this month in response to the mass shooting near 79th Street and Troost Avenue that injured nine people…