Sixth Street homeowner William Kennedy has until tomorrow to accept an $80,000 offer from the UA for his property on East Sixth Street or face eminent domain action.

Eminent domain means the university can condemn property near its campus boundaries and acquire it to meet the needs of expansion of those boundaries.

Kennedy came forward during the Arizona Board of Regents' call to the audience Thursday, asking for clarification on the life estate granted him by the regents at their January meeting.

"I'm very much perplexed," he said. "I understand vaguely that there are different types of life estates."

In January, the University of Arizona asked the regents to approve a request to acquire three properties at 835-837, 841 and 843 E. Sixth St.

Bruce Wright, the UA's director of economic development, said the university had secured the purchase of Renette Saunder's property at 841 E. Sixth St. and was negotiating the purchase of John Higgins' property at 843 E. Sixth St.

Wright asked the regents to grant Kennedy a life estate. Kennedy, who lives at 835-837 E. Sixth St., a duplex, would sell the property to the UA at the appraised value but remain living on the premises until his death.

Kennedy told the regents last week that the conditions of the life estate were still unclear to him. He said he had consulted an attorney and discovered that the life estate would cover only him and not his wife.

Wright confirmed this in a later interview.

Kennedy told the regents he would like to see the conditions of the life estate sent to him in writing.

"I do not understand," he said. "It hasn't been written out."

Kennedy also disputed the appraised value of his property. He said the previous UA appraisal of $60,000 had been increased to $80,000. But the appraisals had been conducted on only half of his property, Kennedy said.

"I'm thoroughly confused," he said. "The house is a duplex. What happens to the other half?"

Mercy Valencia, director of space management, said both sides of the property were appraised and that is why the appraisal increased.

"He had a full appraisal and he walked the appraiser through his property," she said.

The houses, along with four others the university already owns, are being demolished to make way for a surface parking lot.

Wright said one house, located at 923 E. Sixth St., will remain standing. He said that house, which sits next to the Exxon gas station at the corner of North Park Avenue and East Sixth Street, will not interfere with the parking lot plan.

Wright said houses the UA owns should be fully demolished by summer, depending on how negotiations with contractors are worked out. He also said a red brick house on North Tyndall Avenue has been taken down, bringing the number of houses the university has removed in the area this year to two. A house at 829 E. Sixth St. was demolished last month.