“A toothache” is what Abilene Mayor Tim Shafer called it.
“A toothache with a migraine,” commented Commissioner Dee Marshall.
At Monday’s Abilene City Commission meeting, that is how they described what was once the Highlands Addition housing development, 116 acres of land now owned by the city of Abilene with a $4 million debt for infrastructure.
The development dates back to 2006 when a housing needs forecast based on the planning goals of the nearby military base said housing was needed. That need nor the subdivision developed.
“This is what I hear about: what we are doing about it,” Shafer said at the meeting.
City Manager Austin Gilley posed the question what to do with Highlands a year ago. Monday night the question was how much to charge, if anything, to sell it off.
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