DULUTH, MN (KDAL) – The future ownership, management, and use of over 5500 acres of tax forfeit open space in Duluth is the subject of a partnership between the City of Duluth and St. Louis County.
Labeled the Strategic Lands Realignment Project, the collaborative initiative supports some critical goals in the Imagine Duluth 2035 Comprehensive Plan for the City.
They are to acquire and permanently protect tax forfeit open space that has significant environmental, recreational, and storm water management value or can be economically developed for housing or other community priorities.
The City and County will work together in July to reach preliminary agreements on the parcels that will be transferred to the City.
The City will then present that completed list to the Natural Resource Commission, the Parks Commission, the Planning Commission, and the City Council in August for final approval.
The County will also present the completed list to the St. Louis County Board for their approval.
The final cash cost of the land transaction to the City cannot be totaled until City and County staff have a definitive list of parcels and the basis for their conveyance.
It is anticipated that the cash cost to the City for the $7.5 million land acquisition will
be in the low six figures, much of that for real estate services and fees.
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