Land Sale Issue On Ypsilanti Ballot

YPSILANTI - There witf be one local item on the Ypsilanti ballot for the Aug. 6 primary - Proposal G, to decide if the city shall sell land to a contractor for development of a senior citizen high-rise. The proposal must be approved by three-fifths of the voters, according to the City Charter. The high-rise, at the presently scheduled site, has been in the planning stage for almost a year but the city, according to the city planner, did not learn until late April that the land sale would have to be approved by the voters. The city had originally planned to lease the land to the F.C. E. Dillion Co. for construction of the 170-unit building. The building is being financed through the Dillion company by the State „ ing Authority. Hovvever, the city learned in April that in order to receive the state funding, the land transaction must be a direct sale, and not a lease arrangement. The site is the present Kroger location on Michigan Avenue at Hamilton. Despite the voter requirement, plans for the high rise are still proceeding on schedule, and if the voters should reject the land sale, that will probably not be the end of the project. The charter provisión which requires I the three-fifths vote is one of those which council will be attempting to amend in the November general election. That amendment would change the, three-fifths requirement into a simple majority vote.