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City to transfer foreclosure properties to land bank and consider sale of small city-owned lots
Summary
Neighborhood and business development staff asked the council to transfer a list of foreclosure properties to the land bank after foreclosure completes, and the assessment department requested authorization to sell a small city-owned parcel at 234 Marguerite to the adjacent owner who has maintained it.
Kimon Jordan, director of Housing and Neighborhood Planning, presented a list of properties (items 129–145 in the packet) that staff recommended transferring to the Syracuse Land Bank once foreclosures complete. Jordan said the list was previously circulated to council and that staff met with Councilor Jones Rausser to identify properties needing additional outreach. Jordan said transfers are a routine step to allow the land bank to proceed with either demolition, rehabilitation or lot assembly depending on individual site plans.
Deputy Commissioner Michael Lehman (Assessment Department) separately requested council authorization to sell a small city-owned parcel at 234 Marguerite Street. Lehman said the parcel has been a paper street abandoned in the mid-1970s, and the adjacent owner has maintained the lot for decades; the owner applied through the city-owned property sales application process. The parcel sale would proceed through the standard city procedures; Lehman said the city had previously sought land-bank transfers but the land bank earlier declined to take all former city-owned remaining parcels when initially established, so many of these properties remain in the city inventory.
Councilors asked for lists and details; staff said an inventory of city-owned parcels can be provided. Jordan said the land bank will typically evaluate sites for demolition or redevelopment and that some properties in the RNI (Rehab-New-Infill) corridor are already in land-bank ownership and may be used for future infill projects.
No final sales or transfers were completed at the study session; staff will return with necessary documents and notices as foreclosures and sale processes proceed.
