County Commission considers 3-month moratorium on Land Bank sales
“Just because you sell it doesn’t mean that the next year or so there is going to be housing,” Commissioner Erika Sugarmon (right) said. “We have to have a fair process and I’m not hearing a fair process.” (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
The moratorium on the Monday, Jan. 23, agenda is the latest indication that commissioners want to reexamine land use and property transfers in blighted areas.
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