By Steve Bell, Maria Carter
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – It's looking like there will be no referendum election on a controversial Plaza high-rise plan and no court battle.
Plaza owner Highwoods Development's latest offer is that if it builds the building it will be a block to the west at the Valencia-2 site north of an existing office tower.
Dan Cofran of the group fighting the building in its originally proposed location says that will end the controversy: "Friends of the Plaza has always been of the position that the so-called Valencia II site, which is recognized as appropriate for redevelopment under existing zoning under the Plaza Plan is an appropriate site for a building like this."
Cofran says the group wants to see the final version of the council's new resolution, but expects no problems. Councilman Ed Ford will introduce the approval from the floor today for the council to vote on as early as next week.