Mission proposes creating community improvement district to pay for caved-in parking lot repair

Mission city leaders are considering creating a community improvement district to repair a cave-in of the Roeland Court parking lot.

Community improvement districts (CIDs) in the Shawnee Mission area are normally used to create a sales tax for funding new development projects or rehabilitating old infrastructure. In this case, activating a CID would allow property owners living at Roeland Court to have a longer period of time, as much as 22 years, to repay repair costs to their parking lot.

The 7- to 8-foot-deep subsidence of the parking lot at Roeland Court, at West 60th Terrace and Roeland Drive, was likely caused by fill material underneath that contained a mixture of clay, asphalt fragments and wood pieces, and “was not placed with uniform compactions,” according to professional opinions from George Butler and Associates, and Terracon.

City staff learned of the damages in August 2017 and have been working with the Roeland Court Homes Association and engineers to resolve the matter. City administrator Laura Smith introduced the CID as a solution to the council Nov. 14.

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