[memph]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

In situations like this, the city-owned land should be, quite literally, given away. Let the 'buyer' build what ever they want but they have to start building within a year and completed within 3 or suffer VERY heavy penalties.

Nothing should be off bounds...............SFH, row homes, condos, apts, low income & seniors housing, student residences, college campuses, offices, parks, community gardens, urban agriculture.................ANYTHING is better than nothing and as the area develops it will build upon itself from other developers as the population and pedestrian traffic increases.

If nothing is off bounds and fines are very heavy, they might just build a billboard, or lay a layer of sod and call that a park while they wait for a better opportunity to come around though.