Planning commission votes 5-1 to recommend two-lot split for city-owned land
by Richard Dyer | Apache Junction/Gold Canyon Independent
A 1.25-acre lot is to be on the west side of the parcel and a 1.12-acre lot on the east.
The Apache Junction Council should split city-owned property at 978 E. Roosevelt St. into two lots and allow horse privileges on one of 1.25 acres, the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission is recommending.
The property is to be rezoned and then sold, with the $160,000 in estimated proceeds put in the general fund or given to a nonprofit development corporation, the planning and zoning commission was told.
“(H)aving the city go through the rezoning, having the city create the two lots, now we’ve got something to sell,” Development Services Director Larry Kirch said at the commission’s Dec. 8 meeting. “Have the next person come in and do essentially what we’re doing and capitalize on that? Why don’t we capitalize on that and get some higher price? Then we can take the proceeds and go do something else, clean up a different neighborhood.”
