Green Isle votes to list city industrial lots at advertised prices, deviates from lot‑policy price requirement

Council deliberations around industrial‑park lots occupied much of the meeting. Members discussed an offer from Mark Miller for two lots and discovered that several contested lots are city‑owned (not EDA‑owned), that listing paperwork needs a seller correction, and that the advertised prices did not match the EDA’s commercial‑lots policy requirement of 60¢ per square foot.

John Banky and others noted the discrepancy between how lots were advertised and the policy price. John (Banky) proposed an administrative fix to amend listing agreements to show the city as the seller and urged that an interested buyer be allowed to present required plans to the EDA under the policy. “We can make a simple amendment to the listing agreement to change the name of who the seller is,” he said.

To resolve the immediate interest while preserving other policy safeguards, the council passed two motions by voice vote: (1) to list specified city‑owned industrial parcels for sale at the currently advertised prices through realtor John Beny, subject to the commercial‑lots policy requirements (except price), and (2) to deviate from paragraphs 2 and 4 of the commercial‑lots policy solely to accept the current advertised prices rather than the 60¢/sq‑ft price in those paragraphs.

Council members said other policy requirements — including plan submission, construction timelines, and the EDA’s right of first refusal on some parcels — remain in effect. Staff were instructed to prepare the amended listing documents and to include the policy deviation language in the listing agreements; John Beny was named as the listing agent in the motion.

The motions carried by voice vote. The council did not record individual roll‑call votes in the transcript.