Title 2 - Administration and Personnel

2.70.010 Purpose.

The purpose of creating the City of Overland Park Land Bank is to implement the authority granted to the City’s Governing Body, by HB2155 adopted by the Kansas Legislature in 2009, to establish or dissolve a City Land Bank by adoption of an ordinance. The City Land Bank will be a quasi-governmental entity with the primary responsibility and authority for acquiring, maintaining and selling abandoned property in order to address the problems and issues created by these distressed properties.

Among the goals the creation of the Land Bank is intended to help achieve are the elimination of blight, the enhancement of neighborhood viability and stability, the creation of opportunities for affordable and mixed income home ownership and rental, and the encouragement of economic development. The Land Bank is intended to assist in the aggregate and responsible holding of properties for future use, help in the elimination of barriers to return properties to productive use, and to help facilitate the strategic conveyance of property.

(History: Ord. LB-2814 §1, 2009)

Effective on: 1/1/1901