Policy Recommendation 2:
Create more Focused Growth Patterns
Objective 2.1:
Develop a comprehensive vision for future development.
- MARC must launch in the next two years a visioning process to increase the understanding of and provide direction on metropolitan growth, transportation, natural resource protection, housing, and economic prosperity.
- Focus on building regional citizenship, establishing desired outcomes for the region's physical form, and improving connections between regional organizations
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Objective 2.2:
Implement a regional “cores and corridors” strategy.
- Refocus development along major corridors, with the goal of increasing the region's share of population in these areas
- Design a multi-modal transit system that links and expands the region's nodes of density and modify zoning to encourage transit-oriented development around these nodes
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Objective 2.3:
Create a region-wide affordable housing strategy.
- MARC should take the lead in conducting a full assessment of where low- and moderate-income housing is currently located and where it needs to be expanded.
- Include an evaluation of the current allocation of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
- Kansas City local government leaders should work with the Greater Kansas City Home Builders Association to develop voluntary, incentive-based programs in which private developers would produce a portion of units in their projects for low-income working families. Incentives might include density bonuses or tax abatements.
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