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� , t � • COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MEMOR.ANDUM NO. 95-247 November 15, 1995 T0: Honorable Mayor Terry M. Howley and City Council Members FROM: James C. Bacon, Jr. , City Manager George C. Weaver, Community Development Director �kobert A. McQueen, Senior Planner SUBJECT: Sale of land at Stella Drive and Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive An ordinance authorizing sale of excessive street right-of-way at the northeast corner of Stella Drive and North Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive is scheduled for review and action by the City Council on Monday, November 20, 1995. , Containing 6000 square feet, the area in question is the �� east sixty feet of Lot One (1) of W. R. Edward's First Addition. This lot in its entirety was purchased as a vacant lot by the City of Decatur in June, 1993 to accommodate widening of Ma.rtin Luther King, Jr. Drive. All street construction and related improvements at the subject intersection have been completed. Further, the City of Decatur Engineering Division has surveyed the lot in question and determined the area proposed for sale is excessive right-of-way. Inasmuch as the purchaser has indicated his plan to construct a detached garage on the subject area, the subject ordinance restricts future use of the property to such construction to serve an adjoining single family residence; compliance with the City of Decatur Subdivision Ordinance would be necessary to join this tract with the purchaser' s � existing lot prior to construction of a garage. The purchaser has been advised of this requirement. The offer of $2500. 00 to purchase this tract is proportionally in line with the original price of the lot paid by the City of Decatur; therefore, no new appraisal for the same was required. Staff recommends approval of the ordinance as submitted.