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Owner offers to buy troubled city lot; council declines sale after cleanup cost debate
Summary
A resident offered to purchase a city lot (Parcel 07740-000) and clean it up, but a motion to sell for $2,500 plus cleanup failed for lack of a second; council members discussed policy that requires property be sold at or near appraised value and how cleanup costs influence sale price.
Resident Van Castle addressed the City of Perry City Council about Parcel 07740-000, a city-owned lot near his daughter’s home that he said is flooded and cluttered with fallen trees and rodents. Castle offered to buy and clean the lot so it would be returned to the tax rolls.
Castle said he had two estimates to clear the parcel — roughly $8,000 and $12,000 — and that the parcel’s property-appraiser value is about $8,500. He told councilors he could not pay the appraised value and then also pay cleanup costs. “If it was cleaned, then…
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