LR Housing Authority In Trouble Over Lease
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Little Rock housing officials apparently did
NOT have authority to lease land for one of the state`s nature
centers.
The lease was signed last March by the director of the Little
Rock Housing Authority and the president of the National Audubon
Society.
The society was granted management of a 68-acre tract of land in
the Granite Mountain area. Confusion over the transaction has
delayed work on the project.
The Audubon Society was to lease the land for one dollar per
year for 99 years, but the group`s officials later learned that the
Housing Authority did NOT have the authority to lease the land and
that the U-S Department of Housing and Urban Development did not
fully back the deal.
Little Rock officials are trying to acquire the land through
eminent domain, and then turn management over to the Audubon
Society, according to Little Rock Parks and Recreation Director
Bryan Day.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
