Citizen Portal
Sign In

Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!

Get email alerts on the Parcel Subdivision topic

No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Sole agenda item pulled; city staff to return with revised plan for parcel subdivision

Wilkes-Barre City Meeting · February 25, 2026
AI-Generated Content: All content on this page was generated by AI to highlight key points from the meeting. For complete details and context, we recommend watching the full video. so we can fix them.

Summary

City staff announced the lone agenda item has been pulled and will return with a revised plan to subdivide a larger city parcel into a smaller lot for conveyance; local residents and a recreational league asked for staking and access-road repairs.

Speaker 1 (unidentified) said the meeting's sole agenda item "has been pulled from the agenda, so it won't be on the agenda for Thursday." The item will return to a future agenda after staff prepare revised materials.

The discussion centered on a city-owned parcel that staff plan to subdivide. Speaker 2 (unidentified) said they had received a call from a man named Zimmerman who believed his purchase of the property was on hold because of the subdivision. Speaker 1 said the parcel "would be subdivided" but disputed that subdivision was the reason the transaction was on hold, saying it was on hold "for the reasons Mary just stated."

Speaker 1 described the subdivision approach as carving a small parcel out of larger city parcels and creating a new legal description to convey to developers. They said the new legal description is an "exact mapping out" necessary for the conveyance.

Members of the public and local stakeholders raised practical requests. Speaker 1, speaking on behalf of the girls softball league, asked that the parcel be staked so stakeholders can see the property lines, and asked that the city repair an access road described as muddy and the only way in and out. Speaker 1 thanked administration for agreeing to repairs but did not specify a firm timeline or cost estimate for the work.

There was no formal motion or vote recorded on the record. The item was described as withdrawn for the time being; staff will return with the revised agenda item and mapping for council consideration.