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Here are some helpful resources about Kansas City's Line Creek Forest, as well as contact information for our volunteer citizen group. This section is designed to make your life easier, so if there is any information you need, please let us know and we can either post it here or send it to you directly. Thank you for all you do!
goal: Make Kc's Line Creek Forest a conservation area and protect it for future Generations
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about the Line Creek Forest preservation effort, please contact one of our co-organizers:
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Julie Stutterheim
Call or text: 816-806-7164
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Bill Nichols
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You can also message us on Facebook at:
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good to know:
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We are a volunteer group of concerned KC citizens, working together since 2017 to protect the Line Creek Forest.
HELPFUL INFO
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Quick reference sheets - Folder info (PDF)
PROPERTY OWNER INFORMATION
Map of the forest with parcels color-coded by property owner & floodplains (PDF)
Summary of property owners: -
271.87 acres - Park Hill School District (Currently developing 134.33 acres)
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74.58 acres - Kansas City MO
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455.42 acres - Undeveloped / owned by private landowners and developers
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801.87 acres (TOTAL), 667.56 UNDEVELOPED ACRES REMAINING
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For detailed landowner info, please contact Bill Nichols at nichols4848@sbcglobal.net.
CURRENT DEVELOPMENT
Currently, the Park Hill School District is developing in the forest. Following a few hours of community testimony at the City Plan Commission meetings and a presentation at the Board of Zoning Approval meeting, several contingencies were added to the Special Use Permit, and the following memo was appended to the permit approval as an official exhibit:
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BZA (Board of Zoning Approval) Memo - Exhibit 15 for Case No. CD-SUP-2018-00131 BZA 11-13-18 (PDF)
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Does the preservation of the Line Creek Forest fit with the City Area Master Plan? (PDF)
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Petitioner comments - coming soon
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OTHER RESOURCES
map of the line creek forest
The forest is surrounded on all sides by development and is some of the last remaining original woodland forest within Kansas City in Platte County.