Two odd-shaped parcels of vacant land are on the laundry list of items that Oxford Village voters will decide the fate of in the Nov. 8 general election.

Voters are being asked to grant the municipality the authority to sell the parcels, if it so chooses.

They total approximately 2.1 acres and are located off Dayton St., south of Maple St. and west of Pleasant St. They’re both zoned for single-family residential development.

Council voted 3-1 to place the parcels on the ballot back in April.

Voter-approval is required by village charter “to sell any property of value in excess of five dollars per capita, according to the last preceding U.S. Census.” Based on the 2010 Census, which counted 3,436 residents in the village, any property worth more than $17,180 requires a vote of the people.

The village has owned these parcels since 1995.

They, along with another 0.589-acre vacant parcel, were donated to the village by the Oxford Housing Corporation with “the hope” they could be used for “community activities or development,” according to an Oct. 28, 1994 letter from the donor.

A public hearing regarding this land was held in March 2005 and the majority of residents in attendance supported either developing it as a park for neighborhood children or preserving it as open space.

If housing was ever built on the property, the residents who spoke at the hearing favored single family homes and staunchly opposed any type of multiple-family development.