Some of the plats in Armour Hills have location-specific provisions and restrictions for things like utility easements and park access. Here, you can find the original block and lot maps and find the site-specific restrictions associated with them.

Click here to view the original Armour Hills plat map (Blocks 1 to 11 and 20 to 22). A few highlights:

  • All tracts of land at street intersections, designated on the plat by the word “Park”, are hereby dedicated to the public for park purposes.
  • The J.C. Nichols Investment Company may at any time, and Kansas City may at any time, by ordinance, prohibit the construction or maintenance of billboards, or advertising boards, or structures exceeding five square feet in size for the display, painting or posting of signs, or advertisements, on any lots shown on this plat, and all rights for damages on account of such prohibition are hereby expressly waived.
  • Kansas City is hereby given the right to locate, construct, maintain and use, or authorize the location, construction, maintenance and use, of conduits for any and all purposes, water, sewer and gas mains, poles and wires, or all or any of them, over, under and along all rights-of-way shown on this plat and designated as rights-of-way, and shall have the right to locate, construct, maintain and use, or authorize the location, construction, maintenance and use of sewers on those rights-of-way marked “sewer” rights-of-way, and The J.C. Nichols Investment Company does hereby reserve to itself the same rights and privileges over, under and along all private rights-of-way shown on said plat. It is further provided that all of the right, title and interest of The J.C. Nichols Investment Company in and to all private “rights-of-way” that have not been vacated or leased by it prior to January 1, 1932, shall on that date and thereafter be vested in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Original block/lot maps:

Click here to view the original site-specific restrictions: A few highlights:

  • It is further provided that the same restrictions as are hereinafter set forth in section one of this instrument, as to the use of the land, shall apply for the same period, or extended periods of time, to lot 17, in block 2, and to lot 25 in block 7, provided however that said lot 17, in block 2, and said lot 25, in block 7, may at the option at the J. C. Nichols Investment Company, or its assigns be set aside for the sole, exclusive and joint use of such of the owners of any or more of the lots in said blocks 2 and 7 exclusively for park or playground purposes as may hereafter acquire that right, in which case it may be used by such owners in the respective blocks subject only to such conditions as may hereafter be prescribed by The J. C. Nichols Investment Company, or by its assigns,
  • if, and when said lot 17 in block 2 is so used for park or playground purposes by The J.C. Nichols investment Company, or its assigns, then in that case, it or its assigns, shall have the right to use, for pedestrian purposes, four feet on either side of the dividing line between lots 1 and 14, and between lots 1 and 15, and between lots 8 and 10 and between lots 8 and 11, and between lots 7 and 11, and between lots 3 and 5 and such other parts of the public or private rights of way as are shown on this plat, so as to provide a means of ingress and egress, to and from said lot 17, so as to enable those owners of the lots in said block 2, who may have the right to use said lot 17 for park purposes, to have access along such rights of way, for said purposes. The J.C Nichols Investment Company shall likewise have the right to use, for pedestrian purposes, 4 feet on either side of the dividing line between lots 1 and 23, and between lots 14 and 18, and between lots 14 and 17, and between lots 6 and 7, end between lots 7 and 4, and between lots 8 and 4 and between lots 14 and 16, so as to provide a means of ingress and egress, to and from, said lot 25, for the use and benefit of those owners in said block 7, who may have the right to use said lot 25, for park or playground purposes; it being the intention in each case that all owners of lots in blocks 2 and 7 respectively, having that right, may, by the easements and along the lines above specifically set forth, or over and along the easements as shown on said plat of said blocks have a means and right of way of ingress and egress, to and from their respective lots in said blocks 2 and 7. The right to the use of four feet on either side of said dividing lines for pedestrian purposes shall be in addition to the other rights herein reserved, or heretofore granted, affecting any such strip of land in said blocks 2 and 7. It is specifically agreed and understood that none of the owners in block 2 shall have the right of access or use of said lot 25 in block 7, nor shall any of the owners in block 7 have the right or access to use any part of said lot 17 in block 2.