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Commission hears update on Topeka land bank pilot and questions funding, acquisitions and incentives
Summary
Senior management analyst Quinn Cole briefed the Planning Commission on the city’s three-year land bank pilot (launched June 2024), fund balance ($498,630), eight lots in inventory and acquisition methods; commissioners pressed staff on pilot goals, acquisition criteria, auction strategy and developer incentives.
Quinn Cole, senior management analyst with planning and development, gave an in-depth briefing on Topeka’s land bank pilot, which was adopted in May 2023 following recommendations in the 2020 housing study.
Cole said the land bank launched publicly in June 2024 as a three-year pilot designed to test how a land bank can work in Topeka. He said the program began with $500,000 and the current fund balance is $498,630. Cole described four acquisition paths — intergovernmental transfer (how the current inventory was acquired), tax sale, private donation and private market purchase — and said parcels in the land bank are cleared of back due taxes and lot-level code violations and are…
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