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The Kansas City council is set to debate a suite of ordinances that would change how the city awards tax breaks. While the mayor says it will streamline a complicated process, critics argue the plan prioritizes development at the expense of poor and working class residents.
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
Much like the Apollo 13 mission 50 years earlier, in which an unforeseen crisis turned a mission without relatively much fanfare into a matter of survival, Independence like many other cities had to suddenly chart a new course in 2020.
City Manager Zach Walker says Independence’s resolve got tested in 2020, but the city proved resilient, and while plans had to be adapted, planning wasn’t futile. In his state of the city address scheduled for Wednesday’s Chamber of Commerce gathering, Walker plans to highlight several achievements amid the pandemic, along with challenges still to face.