The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council repealed a prior ordinance Thursday that had established a Border War Truce for economic development with Kansas.

The repeal comes after Missouri legislators considered a similar item earlier this year at the state level.

With the Kansas City area straddling the state line between Kansas and Missouri, leaders recognized that certain economic development projects, in which one part of the metro would incentivize a project in competition with another metro community. While one part would come out ahead, the benefits to the metro as a whole were less clear.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Missouri Gov. Mike Parson agreed to the truce in 2019.

However, the truce has been on shaky footing since April 2024, when voters in Jackson County turned down sales t

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