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Residents press city on consolidating MLK parcels and spurring redevelopment; city says private investment and studies needed
Summary
Residents asked why small parcels on Martin Luther King Drive remain underused; staff said the city can replat city-owned lots but cannot force private owners to sell or combine parcels and encouraged owners or developers to present project proposals or seek CRA/CRA incentives.
Several residents raised longstanding frustration with underused lots along Martin Luther King Drive and asked why the city has not combined small plats to create developable commercial parcels.
Resident Brenda Louis Williams described MLK as a corridor that has not seen the same reinvestment as other city roads and urged the city to combine plats and create parcels large enough to attract businesses. City staff and…
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