County staff outline process for selling county land; adjacent owner seeks driveway lots near Toledo

Anne Schneider, community planning and development director, told the Lake County Board of County Commissioners on Oct. 26 that the board is statutorily authorized to sell county-owned property and that the county’s Resolution 178 sets out the disposition process.

"Statutorily, the board is, authorized to be able to sell county owned property. And our, resolution 1 78 outlines the process," Schneider said, describing the decision steps staff uses to advise the board.

Schneider said staff evaluates how the county acquired a parcel (for example by tax deed or purchase), who is requesting the property (an adjacent owner, an equitable-title claimant or a general public interest) and whether the parcel holds any governmental purpose that would counsel against sale. She said county staff had prepared a matrix of property attributes and would present a report to…