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Roetzel & Andress legal opinion affirms Akron council White Pond sale
A non-public legislation agency hired by the Akron Regulation Department has affirmed City Council needed only a easy the vast majority of votes, instead of the supermajority in-depth in metropolis law, to promote 65 acres of public land at White Pond. The controversial vote to sale the city home to personal developer Triton Assets Ventures came throughout the final council meeting of 2022. In hrs, residents in opposition to the luxury housing challenge pounced on language in a town ordinance from 1990 that claims the city should publicize general public assets income in “a newspaper of common circulation” for three weeks ahead of the residence “shall be conveyed to the…
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Akron group questions legality of vote approving White Pond land sale
Members of Akron City Council are seeking the authorized view of the city’s mayor-appointed regulation director immediately after a team of citizens known as Preserve White Pond pointed to a 1990 metropolis regulation that necessitates the mayor to get two-thirds of council to concur ahead of advertising public land. A offer authorized Monday to market 68 acres of city-owned property to the a developer of luxurious housing passed 7-6, beneath the 9-member (or two-thirds) threshold that would normally be demanded by the metropolis code of ordinances, the team contends. “We’re knowledgeable of the statement released from Conserve White Pond,” the mayor’s business reported Wednesday morning, responding to the Beacon Journal’s…
