Midvale owns a piece of Sandy City and plans to give it back for $10.

The city council of Midvale voted 4-0 on July 15 to approve a quit claim deed, transferring some 1.32 acres of land along 8800 So. Cy’s Road to Sandy.

The initiation of the deal sprang up when Midvale’s Public Works Department was made aware of the city’s ownership of the land by a Sandy resident calling in and asking for code enforcement and property maintenance on Cy’s Road, said Glen Kennedy, Public Works director, at July 15’s city council meeting.

“We were obviously confused and told her that she lives in Sandy, she needed to contact Sandy, which she already had,” Kennedy said. “And their code enforcement directed them to us because we were the property owner.” 

Midvale acquired the parcel of road “probably in the 80s,” presumably to construct water storage tanks within Sandy’s boundaries, Kennedy said. The property transfer will rid Midvale of its liabilities of maintaining the land while still holding the rights to the water lines lying beneath Cy’s Road, according to a Midvale City Council Summary Report.

The resolution approving the deal declares that the Cy’s Road parcel “requires maintenance, burdens Midvale City fiscally, does not provide any benefits to city residents or visitors, and has no financial value due to its use as a public right of way.”

“Sandy has assumed, just like we assumed, that it was a public right of way within Sandy,” Kennedy said. “They have been servicing it as such, plowing it, road signage, [and] asphalt maintenance. It's really just a roadway in Sandy.”

Per Midvale’s municipal code, any parcel the city wants to put up for sale that it has owned for at least a year, that is over one acre and/or has a reasonable estimated value of over $100,000, needs to be put up for public comment before a sale can be made. There were no public comments for the Cy’s Road sale.

[Map of Sandy City circling E 8800 S Cy’s Road where the parcel of land is located] (Courtesy of Midvale)