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City to open sales at Arlington Cemetery after ground survey, ordinance and cataloging steps
Summary
Staff outlined an ordinance and follow-up administrative steps to establish sales, recordkeeping and an abandonment/appeals process for Arlington Cemetery after a ground-penetrating radar survey and replat; staff proposed readings and a fall sales target.
Arlington staff told the City Council on May 27 that the city will move to open burial-rights sales at Arlington Cemetery after completing statutory abandonment steps, finalizing an ordinance, and contracting an operator to manage sales and interments.
The matter follows a 2023 change in state law that permits municipal owners of long-held, declared-abandoned cemeteries to sell plots under specified conditions; staff said the ordinance and supporting policies are designed to meet those statutory requirements.
Sarah, staff member, who led the presentation, told the council the ordinance text was available at council members' places and described the preparatory work: a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey of the cemetery’s 10 acres, a replat that marks individual plots and grave locations in both AutoCAD and GIS, and cataloging of obstacles and markers. "If we take out all of those orange plots, we have…
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