LOCKPORT: Adjacent property owners purchasing undeveloped city land.
By JOHN D ONOFRIO john.donofrio@gnnewspaper.com Dec 17, 2020
Dec 17, 2020
Three âpaper streetsâ in Lockport have been sold to adjacent property owners with the consent of the Common Council.
L-shaped Myrtle Street in lowertown, located north and east of 390 N. Adam St., as well as the parcel known as Russell Alley, and property adjacent to 33 Weld St. on the city s south side, just east of Transit Street, are no longer city property.
âWe re taking them off our tax rolls, where we ve been paying the county and school taxes, and we re putting them on property owner tax rolls,â 3rd Ward Alderman Mark Devine, council president, said. âIt s a win-win because this will help them too, by giving the adjacent property owners more room for things they want to do.â