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Owners of Eagle Landing Apartments to construct second building

Justin Addison, Editor/Publisher
Posted 8/2/22

The owners of Eagle Landing Apartments on the corner of East Davis and Louisiana Ct. in Fayette are planning to build a second apartment building across the street. Debbie and Marty Shaw from Mos …

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Owners of Eagle Landing Apartments to construct second building

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The owners of Eagle Landing Apartments on the corner of East Davis and Louisiana Ct. in Fayette are planning to build a second apartment building across the street. Debbie and Marty Shaw from Mos Investments addressed the Fayette City Council at its regular meeting on Tuesday, July 26.

The Shaws told the council that they will start construction as soon as they receive proper zoning. The new two-story building will have four three-bedroom units intended to house up to 12 university students. It will look similar to the current three-story Eagle Landing Apartments that were built in 2015. 

“We would like to put up another apartment complex of some type,” Mrs. Shaw told the council. “We need to go before Planning and Zoning in a public hearing to get re-zoned.”

The Shaws identified a strip of land that is currently owned by the city beside where the new building will be constructed and inquired as to whether they could obtain the land to use as parking for the new apartment building.

“We would like to have that granted to us so that we may use it as a parking lot,” Mrs. Shaw said.

The strip of land in question does have below it part of the city’s sewer system and a drain.

“Us being able to acquire that extra footage will determine the size of the building,” said Mr. Shaw. 

Nathan Nickolaus, the city’s attorney, explained that the city could vacate the street, at which time the land would revert to the owners on either side of it. One of those owners would be Mos Investments. Landowners on the other side would automatically be granted the other half.

“It’s not owned by the city in the sense that you own your property. It’s right of way,” Mr. Nickolaus told the Shaws. “We can’t sell you that land. All we can do is vacate it.”

The city would also need to maintain an easement for the land to access the sewer that runs beneath it. 

Mr. Shaw said that he doesn’t expect to need more than half of the strip of land in question and would hire a surveyor to determine the boundaries.

Mayor Jeremy Dawson said the issue would appear on a future council agenda once the property is re-zoned. “We have some time to think about it and go down there and check it out ourselves,” he said.

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