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Applicant withdraws street-vacation request after neighbors urge council to keep wooded alley
Summary
A petition to vacate and sell a short section of South A Street adjacent to 804 South A Street was withdrawn; applicant Jorge Sanchez Chavez and neighbors asked the city to preserve the wooded right-of-way or restore it as a gravel access, and council voted not to vacate.
A proposed vacation and sale of a roughly 148½-by-66-foot section of South A Street adjacent to 804 South A Street stalled on Monday after residents told the Oskaloosa City Council they value the wooded alley and rely on it for access.
Applicant Jorge Sanchez Chavez said he initially sought the vacate because the segment is "not in use" and made his property feel like a "house of the forest," but told council that neighbors later asked to withdraw the…
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