Clay Chastain Seyz He Can Revitalize Kansas City Without Raising Taxes

The latest election season blast from the embattled contender . . .

Mayoral Candidate Clay Chastain press release: While Lucas reigns without vision, without keeping his promise to stop the homicide crisis and without any real answers to the City's problems; Challenger Clay Chastain announces details of his $2.5 Billion *Kansas City Revitalization Initiative* (slated to go on the 2023 November ballot). This Epic Initiative will grow & revitalize the entire City, create thousands of new jobs, end the City's violent crime wave and secure federal infrastructure funds - without raising taxes.

Simply put, we must do something big, immediate and comprehensive to change our City's course of decline under Lucas. Something that will... produce thousands of new jobs, improve mobility options, create economic equality, improve quality of life, help disadvantaged areas of the City and end Kansas City's homicide crisis.

**KANSAS CITY REVITALIZATION INITIATIVE**:

 FUNDING:

* $1.25 Billion from fed. infrastructure funds.
* $1.25 Billion from 3/8-cent bus sales tax for 25-years.
* $.500 Billion from abolishing City's EDC over 25-year period (O&M)

MODERN TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE:

* Construct Citywide Greenway Transportation System (anchored by 34-mile Airport Monorail connecting the entire City together from... KCI to Northland, to Downtown, Central City, to Eastside to South KC).
*Reconfigure (brutalizing) Bruce Watkins Freeway into calming Greenway with slower, limited-traffic and new transportation options.
* Reconfigure Troost Ave. into Troost Greenway (symbolic project to unify our Community).
* Establish Regional Transportation Center @ Union Station (highest & best reuse).
*Establish neighborhood-connecting Greenway System (pedestrian / cycling trails / e-transit).
*Reconfigure Penn Valley Park into 176-acre  Natural (no traffic) Greenway Park with recreational trails (provides Downtown new, needed open green space).
* Convert all diesel buses to electric buses.

*PUBLIC SAFETY:

* Fully fund the police including more community police officers.
* Build new Youth Community Centers & Job Training Centers in Eastside.
* Beautify, clean (& keep clean) the Eastside.
* Begin construction of Citywide Greenway System in the Eastside (train and hire local Eastside residents to help build).
* Steer new economic investments to Eastside.
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