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Flagstaff council rejects low bid for Doney Park parcels, keeping proceeds tied to self‑insurance trust fund

5523732 · July 31, 2025
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Summary

Council voted to reject a prior bid to purchase two city-owned parcels near Doney Park (roughly 9 acres and 12.5 acres) that had come in at about 15% of appraised value; staff said proceeds would be returned to the city’s self-insured trust fund and that the parcels are county-rural zoned, making affordable-housing development difficult.

The Flagstaff City Council on March 5 approved staff’s recommendation to reject a low bid for two city-owned parcels near Doney (Doney) Park and to retain the parcels as assets of the city’s self‑insured trust fund. City attorney’s office representative Anya Wendell presented background: the city holds two remnant parcels from a larger sale in the 1990s — one about 9 acres and the other about 12.5 acres, both located in the county and…

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