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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. MANTECA MAY BRING BACK CLEAN-UP DAYS Part of what could be a multifaceted city plan to combat the ‘trashing’ of Manteca For more than six months in 2018 people kept illegally dumping furniture and garbage in the 600 block of North Lincoln Avenue in Manteca until the city stepped in.
Communitywide clean up days may be returning.
It is part of a game plan city staff is crafting for council consideration after elected leaders last month declared that beautifying Manteca by fighting illegal dumping, debris left by homeless, graffiti, blight, and other issues that are trashing the city was a top tier municipal priority.
After mulling it over with Boyce, the partners were on board.
But instead of 50 acres it would be 52 acres. And due to legal requirements, the land wasn’t free but ultimately was sold for less than two cents an acre for a grand total of $1.
The land was worth in excess of $2 million at the time
“Jack made it all happen,” Atherton said. “He’s why there is a Woodward Park and a South Manteca.”
For their part, Atherton and his partners clearly understood the city’s financial situation added a stipulation. There would be no strings attached to the donation of the 52 acres. They would pay the full freight of any park fee in place when they went to build a home. Typically when developers “gift” land for a park, school, fire station, or some other government facility they get credits equal to the value against growth fees collected for the purpose the land would be developed to serve such as a park.