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What cities have brought before him
He has sat in the chair your council is sitting in.
Eight years on the Kansas City Council: four as vice chair and four as chair of the Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee, and vice chair of Budget and Audit. Then 2014 to 2019 on the city’s Tax Increment Financing Commission, appointed by the mayor. Kansas City covers 313 square miles of land, 13th largest by land area among U.S. cities of 100,000 or more in the 2000 Census, and its adopted budget passed $1 billion in March 2004.
Incentives and oversight
As the new chair he took on the city’s development incentive policy, then moved to make sure abatements from the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority were not abused.
Kansas City Business Journal, June 13, 2003 ↗Tax increment financing
His committee granted HCA Inc.’s request to activate the rest of the Southtown tax increment financing district.
Kansas City Business Journal, February 19, 2004 ↗A downtown district built on public bonds
He chaired the committee as the council tied the city’s fortunes to the Power & Light District by issuing more than $295 million in bonds in 2005 and 2006.
Kansas City Business Journal, December 22, 2006 ↗A 12-block redevelopment
The East Village plan for a 12-block area east of City Hall came before his committee, with state financing still to secure.
Kansas City Business Journal, January 11, 2006 ↗A neighborhood that said no
Residents gathered some 3,000-plus signatures against a plan to demolish the Seven Oaks Shopping Center and Leon’s Thriftway. He introduced the ordinance that kept it.
The Call, October 8, 2004 ↗The largest development project in Missouri history
He served on the TIF Commission when it unanimously approved the amended agreement for Cerner’s campus, reimbursing about $1.75 billion of $4.45 billion in costs.
Kansas City Star, April 13, 2016 ↗In their words
What the people he worked with said.
When he left the council in 2007, the Kansas City Business Journal asked.
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
“Has a real knack for interacting with people and finding ways to get the job done.”
Cleaver was Kansas City’s mayor when Nash worked for him, before Kay Barnes took office in 1999.
Kansas City Business Journal, May 2, 2007 ↗Former Mayor Kay Barnes
She relied on his leadership, negotiation skills and understanding of development.
As the Business Journal reported her prepared statement on his appointment.
Kansas City Business Journal, May 2, 2007 ↗Plans for other cities
He has also worked for the city, not only inside it.
Comprehensive plans
Comprehensive plans for Lexington, Mexico and Clinton, Missouri.
An award-winning master plan
The Downtown / North Leavenworth Redevelopment Master Plan, Leavenworth, Kansas, winner of the American Planning Association Kansas Chapter’s 2009 Pioneer Award.
A district plan
The Airport South District Development Plan, Moline, Illinois.
Economic development
Economic development plans and services for Marshall and Richmond, Missouri.
A commitment made in 2003
Bring the neighborhood in at every stage.
Among his goals as the new chair of Planning, Zoning and Economic Development: educating neighborhood and community groups about the development process, and making sure they are involved at every stage of it. That is the practice today.
Six conditions, no exceptions
- Findings are public, on a date set before work begins.
- We do not advocate. No testimony, no appearing as your representative.
- The jurisdiction is told first, including who is paying.
- Our name goes on the method, never the outcome.
- No contingency fee, ever. A contingent fee buys a conclusion.
- One side per project. Applicant or jurisdiction, never both.
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