Youngstown to pay company operating on city property

Youngstown to pay company operating on city property

YOUNGSTOWN — City council authorized the administration today to pay up to $150,000 to a company that operated a gravel-making facility on city-owned property without a lease or paid rent and violated the city’s zoning code.

The payment, unanimously approved by council, would be for about 15,000 tons of processed gravel and possibly another 15,000 tons of unprocessed aggregate.

City Law Director Anthony Farris said A.P. O’Horo, which operated the facility on Albert Street for seven years, is likely going to relocate its aggregate processing business to the former YBM Corp. site on Logan Avenue and Hubbard Road.

The company would pay about $40,000 to buy four acres there, he said. An appraisal of the property puts its value at about $10,000 an acre.

The deal with O’Horo isn’t finalized. Farris declined to say how much the company would pay in back rent and how much the city would pay for the materials.

Farris said $50,000 is closer to what the city will end up paying O’Horo, and called the $150,000 limit a “worst-case scenario.”

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