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Ashland County committee approves foreclosure on three tax-delinquent parcels and votes to sell county-owned properties
Summary
The Zoning and Land Committee voted April 22 to take three parcels for tax deed foreclosure and approved a motion to sell county-owned properties under the county zoning ordinance; committee members discussed using a realtor and publishing listings on the MLS or county website.
The Ashland County Zoning and Land Committee voted on April 22 to initiate tax-deed foreclosure on three parcels and separately approved selling county-owned properties acquired through delinquent tax foreclosure.
Pat Kenny moved that the county take parcel numbers 101-00744-0000, 022-01190-0100 and 022-01516-0500; Jim Schultz seconded the motion. The chair called the question and the motion passed.
Later in the meeting the committee reviewed a list of county-owned properties that were acquired through delinquent tax foreclosure and discussed how to market them. Zoning staff said addresses were removed from the publicly circulated spreadsheet for privacy reasons. The committee considered options including listing properties on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) with a realtor and publishing auction information on the county website.
Committee members discussed the advantages of using a realtor: broader public notice, professional pricing, and reduced county liability. One committee member noted that using the MLS gives “everybody the same information” and reduces the perception that properties are assigned to insiders before public sale. Zoning staff referenced Act 209, saying the county is required to sell county-owned parcels acquired via tax foreclosure.
Pat Kenny moved that the county sell the county-owned properties “per our zoning ordinance”; Jim Schultz seconded the motion and the committee approved it.
Committee members also discussed the nature of several county-owned parcels, including private road right-of-ways in the towns of Jacobs and La Pointe, which may have limited market value and will likely be handled on a parcel-by-parcel basis (often by approaching adjacent landowners). Zoning staff recommended prioritizing properties with higher assessed values for immediate marketing; one parcel on the list had an assessed value cited in the meeting of $69,300, though the transcript indicated the delinquent taxes were from 2021.
The committee did not discuss detailed sale procedures for every parcel at the April 22 meeting but directed staff to proceed with marketing and to bring saleable parcels forward, likely packaged with a realtor to handle both desirable and less marketable lots.
