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Park board tables recommendation to amend deed restriction for Breckler Park sale to Troy Miami County Library
Summary
The Troy Board of Park Commissioners delayed action on a proposed amendment to a deed restriction tied to the sale of Breckler Park to the Troy Miami County Library, opting to table the item until a full board can consider the change.
The Troy Board of Park Commissioners on June 9 tabled consideration of a proposed amendment to deed language tied to the planned sale of Breckler Park to the Troy Miami County Library.
Charlotte Cawley, assistant director of public service safety, told the board that the library’s board raised concerns about a reverter clause in the original deed language that would return the property to the city if future library uses fell outside a narrowly defined list of permitted activities. “The library had some concerns about that, namely that, libraries are, evolving in terms of the programming that they're getting into,” Cawley said. She said the city proposes removing the line that would cause the property to revert to the city so the deed would instead state that the property “shall be used for the use and purpose of promoting nonprofit library educational, extracurricular, and interscholastic activities and other uses incidental and related thereto.”
Board members asked how future non-library uses would be controlled. Cawley said the property would still be subject to the city zoning code and “there would be a full review of anything that they wanted to do that would be outside of those purposes.” She added that the library already has grant funding in place and must complete the purchase under contract terms requiring purchase by the end of 2025.
One board member said they were reluctant to recommend approving the change without a full board present and moved to table the matter to the next meeting so the full commission could consider it. The motion to table passed on a voice vote; all present voted “Aye.” No substantive amendment was adopted; the item will return to the board’s agenda at the next meeting for further consideration.
The board and staff described the action as procedural: the city and library remain in negotiations to complete the sale, but the commission chose to delay a formal recommendation to city council until every commissioner can review the proposed deed language.
Looking ahead, staff said it would be ideal to resolve the deed-language question by the end of the summer but that tabling the matter briefly would not, in staff’s view, necessarily delay the library’s timeline if the parties keep coordinating.
