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RESOLUTION N0. 5858
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ACQUISITION
OF CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY
BY EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDINGS
(Hub Property - Adjacent to Nicollet Avenue)
WHEREAS, the City of Richfield, Minnesota, has undertaken a program
of public improvements on and adjacent to Nicollet Avenue between 65th
and 66th streets; and
WHEREAS, such public improvements include improvements to or con-
struction of streets, sidewalks, landscaped areas, bus stops, pedestrian
and crosswalk areas and other public amenities; and
WHEREAS, in order to construct such improvements, the City~Council
finds it necessary, proper and expedient in the interest of the public
health, convenience and general welfare of the citizens of the City of
Richfield, for the City to acquire the easement hereinafter described for
the public purposes hereinafter set forth; and
WHEREAS, in order to expedite the making of such improvements it
is necessary and in the public interest that title to and possession of
such property be acquired before the filing of an award by court appointed
commissioners,
NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of the City of
Richfield, Minnesota: The City Manager, City Attorney and other
appropriate officals are hereby authorized and directed to commence and
prosecute eminent domain proceedings to acquire a perpetual easement
over, under, upon and across that part of Block 2, Richfield Plaza, lying
easterly of the following described line:
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Beginning at a point on the south line of said Block 2,
distant 20.00 feet westerly from the southeast corner thereof;
thence northerly 200.00 feet!Iparallel with the east line of
said Lot 2; thence northwestgrly deflecting. to the left 45
degrees 00 minutes, a distance of 83.5 feet; thence north-
easterly deflecting to the right 90 degrees 00 minutes, a
distance of 90.57 feet to a line 15.00 feet west of and
parallel with the east line of said Lot 2; thence northerly
along said parallel line to the north line of said Lot 2
and there terminating. ',
Such easement shall be for street; sidewalk, landscaping, bus stop,
pedestrian and crosswalk areas and related public amenities.
In the prosecution of such proceedings, such officials are
authorized and directed to take such actions as are necessary to acquire
title and possession to such easement at the earliest date that this may
be accomplished under applicable law.
Passed by the City Council o~ the City of Richfield, this 23rd day
of January, 1978. ',
ATTEST:
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Thomas J. M an City Clerk ',
L en L. Law ayor