City land sale will square up lot

The City Council approved the sale of a small portion of park land to a private party. Mark Fritze and his wife, Kourtney Fritze, asked to buy 3,600 square feet of city-owned land at the very east side of the Woodland Valley Park, which is adjacent to their residential lot at 1231 N. Wild Turkey. The sale price is $1,800, or 50 cents a square foot.

“While the city does not generally favor selling its park lands, because this particular piece of the park is an odd shape, selling this small area would be of little to no consequence to the public use and enjoyment of the park,” City Manager Kathy Sexton said in a report to the council. With the sale, the lot would square up with the adjoining lot line and enable the homeowners to construct a fence.