Redevelopment commission offers four tax-sale parcels to adjacent owners under state code

The Elkhart City Redevelopment Commission voted Oct. 14 to offer four parcels acquired through tax sales back to adjacent property owners under Indiana Code IC 36-7-14-22.6.

Staff said the parcels were acquired by tax sale and in many cases are functionally in use by adjacent owners — for example, fenced yards or play areas — who may not have realized they had let taxes lapse. The commission will offer the parcels at reduced cost on the terms presented in the resolution.

"These parcels were acquired by the commission via tax sale," a staff member explained during the packet review, and the commission then moved to offer them to adjoining owners according to the resolution’s terms.

Commissioners approved the motion by voice vote; public comment and questions were solicited but none affected the vote.