K.S.A. 13-1023: For what purposes private property may be purchased or condemned.

Private property may be purchased or condemned for streets, alleys, levees, market houses, market places, depot grounds, bridges or approaches thereto, public buildings, sewers, to acquire stone quarries or other material for the improvement of the streets and alleys, or other public improvements, and for public parks within or without the city, as may be hereafter needed or required for the use of the city.