North New Summit School has asked for use of city property designated for a road for its school expansion.
The school would like to build modular classrooms on top of the property for undeveloped Erie Street, parallel to a ditch easement between Tallahatchie and Yalobusha streets.
The city's director of code enforcement and fire marshal, Victor Stokes, presented the idea to the Greenwood City Council Tuesday. Representatives from North New Summit were not present.
The school would have to lease city property. North New Summit officials had not discussed a price with Stokes.
City Council President David Jordan said school officials would have to come to the council. No one else could give them approval, he said.
Stokes said that asking to put buildings on city property was an unusual request.
North New Summit School gained permission in March from North Park Church of God of Prophecy on Yalobusha Street to lease land at the back of their property for modular classrooms.
The school has outgrown the strip shopping center in which it has been meeting on West Park Avenue.
It opened in Greenwood in the spring of 2005 with two students and has grown to more than 50.
