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City staff to ask council to approve $205,000 purchase for Hurlinger Park expansion; design, canal parcels discussed
Summary
At the March 11 meeting of the Troy Board of Park Commissioners, staff outlined plans to recommend that city council approve purchase of property appraised at $205,000 for expansion of Hurlinger Park, to pursue adjacent Ohio Canal land from the state, and to solicit engineering firms for design work; no formal board action was taken.
City staff told the Troy Board of Park Commissioners on March 11 that they plan to recommend the city council approve purchase of a parcel adjoining Hurlinger Park as the first step toward a larger park redevelopment.
Mister Doegleton said an appraisal returned at $205,000 and that the property owner has agreed to sell for that amount. “It came back at $205,000. That's what the property owner has agreed, to sell it for,” Mister Doegleton said. He said the property includes a small, simple building that the city would remove as part of redevelopment.
Doegleton described additional land adjacent to the parcel: a small triangle of abandoned Ohio Canal land northeast of the building and a longer rectangle of former canal land south across the street that the city already owns. He said staff will request the state transfer the small additional canal parcel when the city completes the purchase.
Staff also discussed a strip of railroad-owned land west of the parcel. Doegleton said the city does not expect to obtain that railroad land quickly — and that even if it were donated, “it would probably take years to execute that with the railroad.” He said design- and engineering-firm solicitation will follow council approval of the purchase, and those firms would present alternative layouts that could include the newly acquired parcel and the canal land.
Board members were asked whether any formal action was required; the chair said this briefing was for information and that the first formal step is to seek council approval of the purchase. No formal motion or vote by the park board was taken on the acquisition at the March 11 meeting. Staff said they will return with preferred designs and cost estimates after selecting an engineering firm and after council action.
Doegleton said the city’s committee has already recommended the purchase to council and staff anticipated council consideration the following Monday. The timeline for design selection and construction was not specified at the meeting.
