Quiet title laws across the Midwest can disproportionately affect homeowners who don’t speak English, like Natalia Esteban, who emigrated from Mexico over 20 years ago.
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Marshalltown City Councilman Gabe Isom listens to City Administrator Jessica Kinser explain a housing development partnership which is underway near Olive Street. She brought the project to the council to determine interest and get more direction on whether or not the city should get involved.
Whether or not the City of Marshalltown will get involved in a housing development partnership remains to be seen. At the regular Monday meeting, City Administrator Jessica Kinser told the Marshalltown City Council about a partnership between HCI and JBS to build a multi-family residential complex south of Olive Street.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS The Downtown Master Plan will bring about different traffic features such as roundabouts for Marshalltown.
Switching Church and Linn streets from one-way to two-ways will take a little more than a flip of the switch.
The change is what was proposed in the city’s 2019 Downtown Master Plan. In order to make this happen, something else will need to change traffic control. Particularly, traffic control where the streets intersect with Center Street.
Engineering and consulting firm Bolton and Menk was charged with the task of figuring out how to bring the master plan to fruition with the Downtown Implementation Plan. Among the firm’s many recommendations is the recommendation of changing from traffic lights to circular intersections where Linn and Church meet Center Street.
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS The Downtown Master Plan will bring about different traffic features such as roundabouts for Marshalltown.
Switching Church and Linn streets from one-way to two-ways will take a little more than a flip of the switch.
The change is what was proposed in the city’s 2019 Downtown Master Plan. In order to make this happen, something else will need to change traffic control. Particularly, traffic control where the streets intersect with Center Street.
Engineering and consulting firm Bolton and Menk was charged with the task of figuring out how to bring the master plan to fruition with the Downtown Implementation Plan. Among the firm’s many recommendations is the recommendation of changing from traffic lights to circular intersections where Linn and Church meet Center Street.
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Viejo Bluffs Addition is the splitting of the land on the north side of where the new E. Merle Hibbs extension will be built so it will be north of the new McFarland site. The 2 lots will be able to be developed for either commercial or residential uses.
The Marshalltown City Council took several actions relating to the purchase of real estate and preparing land for future development during a regular council meeting Monday.
The real estate purchases relate to the city’s goals of demolishing buildings which were heavily damaged and uninhabitable after the tornado. FEMA requires a city to own property before being able to obligate funds toward its demolition.