12.16.050 Vacating city-owned properties and rights-of-way.
The governing body may dispose of city-owned properties and rights-of-way to private interests at such time as the requirements of this section have been satisfied, as such authority has been given to the city per Section 10-8-2 of Utah Code Annotated 1953.
A. The requestor will submit a request in writing to the Midvale City planning department with information that will include the property address, parcel number, legal description, and current appraised value of the property to be vacated. A fee of one hundred dollars will be submitted with the request to cover processing and review costs.
B. The request shall be reviewed by the affected city departments to determine impact to the city. Following the review each department will make a recommendation of approval or denial or conditions on which approval might be made.
C. Public notice of the public hearing shall be made as follows: All public hearings to consider an application for a street vacation/closure/name change or the declaration of any other city-owned property as surplus shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation fourteen days prior to the hearing. If all adjacent property owners of a street proposed for vacation/closure/name change have not filed jointly, the public notice shall run in the newspaper once a week for four consecutive weeks prior to the hearing date with the city council per Utah Code Sections 10-8-8.3 and 10-8-8.4.
D. Upon final review by the planning department the applicant will submit a written offer for the purchase of the property. The planning department will then schedule a public hearing and submit the request to the planning commission with a final recommendation for their review and recommendation to the city council.
E. Upon review by the planning commission a public hearing will be scheduled with the city council and the request submitted for action with final recommendations from the planning staff and commission.
F. The city council shall retain the discretion to either approve the request, approve the request subject to conditions, or deny the request.
G. If the request is approved the new prospective owner(s) will prepare all legal documents for the transfer or sale of the property. The documents are then submitted to the city for final review and approval. The new owner(s) shall assume any costs incurred in this process.
H. After all the documents are properly signed the necessary documents will be recorded with the Salt Lake County recorder by the city. (Ord. 9/02/2003O-10 § 1 (part))