The City Council Mo
nday night agreed to sell a 25.11-acre city-owned parcel to developers Keith Nickels and Josh Otto.
The parcel has frontage on both Reno Drive and 133rd Avenue. The purchase price is $20,000.
“The sale will be contingent on a successful rezoning by the purchasers,” said City Manager Tim McLean. They will apply for a rezoning to the Planning Commission. At this stage, we don’t yet know which zoning classification they would be seeking.”
The parcel currently is zoned I-2 (Planned Industrial).
City Council also put on the condition that construction must begin within 12 months of the sale being final.
Nickels is a Wayland High School graduate who now lives in New York. Otto is owner of the Wayland Hotel and a Dorr Township Board member.
The City Council also received an application for a site plan review by the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters, looking to develop administrative offices and a training facility at a parcel on Reno Drive just south of General RV.
“It’s a fairly large facility,” McLean reported. “Planner Kirk Scharphorn, Engineer Mickey Bittner, and I will be getting to work immediately on reviewing site plan. We are hopeful this can go before the Planning Commission in May for full review and possibly approval.
“So the city should be seeing some very exciting development on Reno Drive in the near term.”
Wow, 25.11 acres for $20,000 (less than $800 per acre) – much cheaper than farmland.
How is the City of Wayland City Council going to explain that to taxpayers, since the city paid much more for it than selling price?. On tax day, it is revealing how things work in this city.
High taxes, high hook-up fees, than any city in the county and they are essentially giving away land. What a deal!