“All this resolution asks the EDA to do is to find out what it would take to consolidate the property known as the Loving pieces so we have a better understanding of what it will take to develop the land,” Baliles said.
But the original wording of his resolution went a bit further. The text states that the council believes it’s in the “best interest” of the city for the development authority to “make efforts to acquire the land in question” and develop it for commercial enterprise. Link
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