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City Council · May 29, 2012

R-149-2012

Purchase property for TVA parking garage

A Resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute any and all documents necessary to obtain options and, if deemed appropriate following due diligence, to purchase property generally bounded on the northwest by Summer Place, on the northeast by Walnut Street, on the southwest by Locust Street, and on the southeast by existing parking, and to convey said property to the Tennessee Valley Authority for the development of a parking garage, for a cost to the City of $226,500 for purchasing said options, $2,500,000 for the cost of acquiring said property, and with TVA to provide public parking spaces within said parking garage at no cost to the City of Knoxville as consideration for the conveyance of said property.(Requested by Public Works)

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On May 29, 2012, “Purchase property for TVA parking garage” failed before the City of Knoxville, TN City Council.

Failed Failed — died for lack of a second

COUNCIL MEMBER STAIR MOVED TO REQUIRE THE GARAGE TO COMPLY WITH DOWNTOWN REVIEW BOARD GUIDELINES THE SAME AS A PRIVATE ENTITY.

Moved by Marshall Stair

Topics: Roads & infrastructure · Contracts & purchasing

The vote as recorded

We don’t have this. The minutes do not record how this vote was taken. They record the outcome without a count — usual for a voice vote. It does not mean the board was unanimous.

The figures in this motion

  • $226,500

  • $2,500,000

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Public forum

The clerk’s minutes note 1 speaker at the public forum for this meeting.

A sign-up count from the minutes — not a measure of overall public opinion.

Minutes of the 29 May 2012 meeting — page 12

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