Welcome to business session for July 18, 2024.

First item is approval of minutes for business session of June 27th.

So moved.

Second.

Moved and second.

And all in favor, Idicate by saying aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Resolution.

The motion passes.

We will start with a gasoline and fuel sales and liquor license moratoriums update.

Councilman Curls, thank you for bringing this legislation to us.

I don't know if you have anything to kick us off if you want to start with them.

Yes, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um just wanted to uh share with my colleagues the work that has been done by all of these fine people that are getting ready to make this presentation in regards to the gas station and liquor store moratorium that is uh set to expire on August the 8th.

Uh so we wanted to come before the full council so that they could share uh where we are with what we have come up with in regards to coming up with a proposed ordinance for each one of these items.

So, with that being said, I'm gonna turn it over to these gentlemen, let them explain to you some of the things and the findings that they came up with, and uh let them kind of talk to you about how we're gonna go forward with these two ordinances.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Gentleman.

Good afternoon, Mayor Lucas.

Uh I am Andrew Clark in city planning and development in the development management division, and I will let the rest of the team introduce themselves.

Good afternoon, Council Officer Jeff Krebs with the Kansas City Missouri Police Department.

I'm a community interaction officer for our community and engagement division.

My name is Jim Reddy, I'm the regulated industries division manager.

Andy Seps Chief Environmental Officer, Office of Environmental Quality.

So today is a brief update on the two ordinances that were approved back on February 8th, 2024.

Uh the first one you'll hear about is the gasoline fuel sales moratorium update, and second will be the liquor license moratorium update.

A presentation overview is an ordinance focus, the multi-departmental review approach, staff's work to date, suggested ordinance revisions, and next steps.

In the gas station moratorium ordinance, it is stated that the city council finds that in the interest of protecting the public safety, health, and welfare of Kansas Citians, it is necessary to review regulations concerning the placement, establishment, and operation of businesses involved in the sale of gasoline, diesel, and other motor vehicle fuel products.

So today we'll break down the public safety, health, welfare, and existing regulations and proposed.

First, I just want to thank everybody from the city and KCPD on this list for coming together and working collaboratively with regulated industries, helping city planning with additional data points, KCPD and their plan review and data sharing as well.

And then our team in city planning looking at additional use standards and operations compliance.

First, I will let uh Mr.

Savestino discuss some of the comments public health or OEQ has provided us.

All right, yeah, thank you.

So when Office of Environmental Quality looked at this particular issue on fuel stations, we look at it this through the lens of protecting public health and the environment.

And so for us, when we look at the environmental media that are affected by this particular issue, you're looking at air quality issues and subsurface or groundwater and uh soil concentration.

So from that, when we're gonna start off with the air quality concern.

Um in Kansas City, you know, we look at the attainment status and particularly around ozone standard, and how that's related to the fuel issue is that fuels are a precursor to the formation of ozone in the Kansas City area.

And so far, Kansas City has been able to maintain its attainment status, but just barely so.

And unfortunately, if the Kansas City area uh exceeds the ozone standard, the EPA could consider Kansas City a non-attainment area, which then imposes a whole nother layer of regulations uh related to the types of industries that can come into the Kansas area, but also going so far as requiring what we call stage two vapor recovery devices.

Now, these devices are not necessarily bad things, and you'll see these sometimes, like if you're in St.

Louis, which is a non-attainment area.

And stage two vapor recovery devices are those that use when you're fueling up your vehicles, they capture the vapors as they come out of your fuel tank and then recycle them back into the storage tanks.

So when you don't have those in the Kansas City area now, because we are currently in attainment, you do run the risk of exposing uh people who are using the fuel islands, those in the near proximity to the toxins related to fuels, whether it's benzene or tolyman or other things of that nature.

So just one thing considering on the air on the air quality side of things.

And when it comes to fuel, you're you have two options for storage.

One is above ground storage and the other is underground storage.

I'm a big fan of above ground storage tanks because the benefits of that is that when there are tank leaks, you can see those.

You can do inspections on them, very more quickly easy to address those types of concerns.

However, when you're dealing with underground storage tanks, which is the predominant number of those here in the Kansas City area, even with the advances in technology we've had over the past 30 years related to underground storage tanks and monitoring systems, leaks can still and do happen.

And so you didn't you need to be cognizant of the fact that if there is a leak and the monitoring system doesn't pick it up, where does that fuel go?

And in this area, you can follow geological uh fissures or formations, they can follow sewer lines or conduits in the ground to basically escape the immediate site.

So these are just some considerations when we look at it from the environmental uh public health side of things.

Thank you.

Uh second, city planning and development uh has been gathering and analyzing the multiple data points we have received.

That has come from information provided by the state of Missouri related to where gas tanks are located, also from regulated industries and additional data sets.

Um the orange is data that we receive from the state of Missouri, and it is overlaid with what you see in green of what is our city's inventory of existing gas stations.

So, first we wanted to analyze how many do we have, where are they located, looking at possible concentrations of where these uses are located, proximity to possibly playground schools, parks, uh residential neighborhoods, senior living.