Plaza Urban Design & Development Plan

Help Save Our Plaza
Since August a small volunteer team has been working tirelessly to stop the proposed Highwoods office tower in the core of the Country Club Plaza. We need legal support and have printing and other expenses. Please consider making a contribution to Save Our Plaza. 100% of donations go directly to stop REZONING of the site and AMENDING the Plaza Plan.

Help Save Our Plaza

Since August a small volunteer team has been working tirelessly to stop the proposed Highwoods office tower in the core of the Country Club Plaza. We need legal support and have printing and other expenses.

Please consider making a contribution to Save Our Plaza. 100% of donations go directly to stop REZONING of the site and AMENDING the Plaza Plan.

Because of increased interest in development, as well as the Plaza’s uniqueness and importance to Kansas City, the City Development Department undertook the preparation of the Plaza Urban Design and Development Plan. The plan seeks to maintain the quality and character of the Plaza area and to ensure that new development respects the important design features that already exist.

The purpose of the plan is to conserve the outstanding amenities of the Plaza while accommodating growth and change. Strategies for future development are outlined within the plan so that new development will contribute to the existing environment.

In 1989 the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri unanimously approved the Plaza Urban Design and Development Plan as a guide for the future development and redevelopment of the Plaza District. In 1995 the Council reaffirmed its commitment to the Plaza Plan and further endorsed the planning principles set forth in the Plan as appropriate and desirable and confirmed that such Plan is the measure to review all proposed development and redevelopment in the Plaza Area subject to subsequent amendments to such Plan.