Vote on redevelopment plan postponed
By Rebekah Nicodemus
Staff Writer
A request to approve the Downtown/Riverfront District plan was removed from Tuesday’s agenda, after it was determined that in order to approve the plan, the city will need to hold a public hearing. Once a public hearing has been advertised and held, the council will vote on whether to adopt the plan.
The council also voted Tuesday to issue a zero-percent mortgage to the Downtown Redevelopment Authority for a piece of property on Broad Street that includes the Victory Auto Parts building. Hardin said that the redevelopment authority is in the process of negotiating a land swap with a developer that would include the property, and the decision to hand control of the property to the authority was a “gesture” to show the developer that the city was serious about the swap.
“This allows DRA to go forward with the land swap,” he said.
(Aspects of this story not relevant to redevelopment of the Phenix City Riverfront have been removed to condense the story.)
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