Court ruling on San Marnan Drive

The Iowa Supreme Court has put Waterloo in an interesting pickle. The Waterloo Courier (long article) and KWWL (short) both have stories. (Yes, that is former Rep. Dave Nagle as the plaintiffs’ lawyer.)

The court ruled that the city was wrong to sell old right-of-way on San Marnan Drive (actually a four-lane ROW, matching original plans for IA 412) for $1 to a developer without either offering it to the previous owners or opening it to competitive bidding.

The wrinkle in this is that the deal included relocating that part of San Marnan 70 feet to the south, and it’s already been done. The former ROW is now a staked-out grassy area, as you can see in the Courier story’s pictures.

This land deal started in mid-2011, and it looks like it’s not done yet, even though the area has already been changed.

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