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Council directs staff to draft legislation to buy 25‑ft strip for Maumee Valley waterline crossing
Summary
City engineer told council the Shoemaker family offered to sell a roughly 1.26‑acre, 25‑foot‑wide strip for $27,000; council moved to direct the law director to draft purchase legislation and a related budget adjustment and voted to proceed.
Napoleon City Council on Sept. 2 authorized staff to move forward with drafting legislation to purchase a narrow strip of land from the Shoemaker family to accommodate a Maumee Valley waterline crossing.
City Engineer Chad Lopes told the council that, to cross the river and place the waterline, the city approached the Shoemaker family and offered to buy a roughly 1.26‑acre strip 25 feet wide. "The offer to them was for the purchase the the 1.26 plus or minus…
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