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City Allows Alley Closure By Palms Of Sebring

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By JOE SEELIG

Highlands Today

Published: February 9, 2009

SEBRING - During an otherwise mostly uneventful Sebring City Council meeting, Attorney John McClure, representing The Palms of Sebring, requested to vacate a portion of an alleyway for parking lot expansion.

The plan, which provides for 17 additional parking spaces as well as repaving and restriping the lot, is a joint effort Sebring Healthcare Investors, LLC, the J.H. Memorial Church of the Brethren and Presbyterian Church of Sebring.

McClure sought and received the council's conceptual approval before any other steps would be taken.

McClure will now notify all property owners within 200 feet and also serve them notice of a final reading so they may provide input on the issue.

Second, he will obtain letters from all utility providers that they have no objections. McClure agreed to allow a utility easement to remain where the existing alleyway is now.

Plans indicated a new alley, a public dedicated easement, would be designed on another location on the property.

The city received a check for $1,000 to cover the city's expense in processing the request.
Councilman John Clark asked if $1,000 is enough.

"I don't want to write a blank check," said McClure, suggesting the expense be at a reasonable cost to the city.

Highlands Today reporter Joe Seelig can be reached at (863) 386-5834 or jseelig@highlandstoday.com .

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