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RESOLUTION NO. 5886
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING. THE
ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY
8Y EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDINGS
• - AND AUTKORIZIPdG THE EXECUTION
OF A JOIi1T ACQUISITIOi: AGREEI'!M.EZ~?T
(Flowertown)
WHERE.'~S, the City of Richfield, "Minnesota, has undertaken
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a program of public improvements within the Lyndale-Hub-Nicollet
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.Commercial Improvement Project areas; and
WHEREAS, such public improvements include the acquisition
of public park and open space areas, such improvements being
for a public purpose; and
G~THEREAS, 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 recruire
fee title absolute to the properties 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
the possession of such property be acquired before the filing
of an award by court-appointed commissioners; and
WHEREAS, the Housing and Redevelopment Authority intends to
acquire fee title to a part of the same parcels which are subject
to this resolution; and
WHEREAS, it would be desirable, efficient and expeditious if
the proceedings hereinafter authorized c•~ere prosecuted jointly with
the eminent domain proceedings to be authorized by the Housing
and Redevelopment Authority; and
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WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes Section 117.016 proceeds for
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.the making of joint acquisition agreements by and between authorities
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having the right of eminent domain;
NOW 7.'iiEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of the
City of Richfield, Minnesota; as follows.
1. Commencement of eminent domain proceedings in the name
of the City .of Richfield, Minnesota is authorized for the
purpose of acquiring fee simple absolute title in the subject
.property for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing,
and maintaining public park and open space areas. The real
property to be condemned shall be the property being in Hennepin
County and legally described', as:
That part of Lot 10, Block 4, "J. N. Hauser's Second
Addition", according to ', the recorded plat thereof
.lying Westerly and Southerly of a line described as
follows:
'Commencing at a point on the South line of
said Lot 10 distant 90.00 feet Tast from the
_ Southwest corner of said Lot 10; thence
Northerly 150.00 feet at right angles to
the South line of said Lot 10; thence North-
westerly, deflecting'to the left 69 degrees,
65 minutes, 30 seconds to a point 117.56 feet
Southerly measured at right angles from the
North line of said Lot 10, and there terminating. '
2. The Mayor and City Manager are authorized on behalf
of the City of Richfield, Minnesota,. to execute the-joint
acquisition agreement given clerk's file number C-9820
Passed by the City Council'of the City of Richfi this 27th day
March, 1978.
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ATTEST:
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Thomas J. Mo n City Clerk
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