STA Presents Resolutions to Council(posted Aug 14) The Speedway Trails Association placed the ball in the town council's court on August 13 by asking them to adopt two resolutions that would establish a clean up day and clarify ownership. The council gave a neutral reaction to the proposed resolutions. President Bill Golay said they would appear on the next agenda if the council decides to take action. The clean resolution requested the town designate a day that would allow citizens and STA members to enter the B& O corridor to clean up the property as well as furnish supplies and a truck to haul off the debris. The resolution stated that such an action would benefit the economic development health, welfare and safety to town and its residents. The STA will offer any assistance to help the town convert the abandon corridor into the trail. The second resolution would require the council to research title work to find out specifically who the property is titled to in respect to the court case of George Clark Hamilton County Farm Bureau vs CSX Transportation. The resolution stated the assessor's office does not recognize title of ownership adjacent to the corridor. The STA, adjacent owners as well as the town need to know how the abandon corridor is legally titled in order to establish ownership to convert the corridor into a trail. According to the assessor's office, CSX Transportation owns all the parcels extending from from Holt Road to Eagle Creek Levee except by Allison's Parking lot, which is owned by GM . There is obvious confusion because at a November 2006 Board of Zoning Appeals meeting member Jeremy Gooch noted there must have been some value for Zipp to purchase the B&O easement from the Town of Speedway in 2004. Indy Greenway's was requesting an easement to the corridor. The BZA did not feel it was the board's place to require an easement for the protection of the B&O Trail even though Indy Greenways' Master Plan has had the trail included since May 1994. Amy Worgan, DMD Senior Planner who handled Zipp's variance case at the time, researched the deed and found an easement for Marathon Ashland but did not find one for Indy Greenways. |
|
