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City and county officials discuss property swaps, housing and downtown parking plans
Summary
Josephine County and city leaders reviewed maps of city- and county-owned parcels and began exploratory talks about land swaps, joint development for housing, a potential multilevel parking garage downtown and coordinating department relocations after the Dimock sale.
Grants Pass and Josephine County leaders met to review ownership maps and to start exploratory talks about swapping or jointly developing city- and county-owned parcels to support housing, parking and departmental relocations. The meeting, called by the chair, ran from 11:04 a.m. to 12:04 p.m.
The mayor framed the conversation as an early-stage effort to “spark some more development” and suggested the county and city consider land swaps or joint ventures on underused property inside city limits. The mayor said one priority is downtown parking and proposed investigating a multilevel parking garage at the Grasshopper lot, describing a model where…
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