Kansas City is making Spire repair its road damage before issuing any new work permits

The city stopped issuing new work permits after utility crews left a recently-resurfaced road torn up, violating the city's regulations on road construction.
Spire Energy on Thursday began to repair roads damaged by its utility crews after Kansas City announced it would temporarily refuse to issue new work permits to the company. But it’s not clear when the Department of Public Works will lift the freeze.

The city said that Spire Energy dug a trench through the recently-repaved Linwood Boulevard, violating new road construction regulations put in place by Kansas City Council last year.

City Manager Brain Platt tweeted that it was “one of a few examples of blatant disregard of our new street excavation rules” and that the city wouldn’t issue new permits until the company made “improvements.”