1981-18360
RESOLUTION NO. 183
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN
REAL PROPERTY BY EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDINGS
WHEREAS, the Housing and Redevelopment Authority in and for
the City of Richfield did on the 15th day of October, 1975, adopt
and has subsequently amended the Lyndale-Hub-Nicollet Commercial
Improvement Program at which times it was determined that properties
within the project area were deteriorated and deteriorating
within the meaning of Minnesota Statutes 1981, Section 462.421,
Subdivision 11; and
WHEREAS, the Lyndale-Hub-Nicollet Commercial Improvement
Program has been determined to be necessary to eliminate and to
prevent the spread of such deterioration; and
WHEREAS, the property described in Exhibit A of this Resolution
which is attached hereto and made a part hereof as though fully
set out at this point, is within the project area and has been
designated for acquisition; and
WHEREAS, the Housing and Redevelopment Authority in and for
-the City of Richfield finds it necessary, proper and expedient in
the interest of the public health, safety, convenience and general
welfare of the citizens of the City of Richfield to acquire, for
the public purposes of redevelopment, said property at the earliest
possible date; and
WHEREAS, the acquisition of the subject property is consistent
with and necessary to the implementation of the Lyndale-Hub-
Nicollet Commercial Improvement Program and to the elimination
of, or prevention of, the spread of deterioration within the
project area; and
WHEREAS, efforts to obtain the property through negotiation
have been unsuccessful; and
WHEREAS, it is in the public interest that title to and
possession of such property be acquired before the filing of an
award by the court-appointed commissioners;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Housing and Redevelopment
Authority in and for the City of Richfield as follows:
1. The commencement of eminent domain proceedings for the
purpose of acquiring fee simple absolute title to the
property described in Exhibit A is hereby authorized.
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Such acquisition shall be for the purpose of redevelopment.
2. Authorization is hereby given to seek-title and possession
prior to the. making of the award by.~the court-appo~.nted
commissioners and as soon as may be a.Ilowed by law.
3. The Executive Director and Commission Chairman are
authorized to take whatever actior~ they shall deem
necessary and consistent with this 'Resolution for the
purpose of acquiring title. to the property described in
Exhibit A. !
Passed by the Housing and Redevelopment Authoirty in and for
the City of Richfield this 16th day of November, 1981.
T arias Harm., Chairman
ATTEST:
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Michae O. Freeman, Secretary
Exhibit A
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION -
Lots 6 and ?, Block 3, Lyndale Shores on Wood Lake and that part
of Lot 8, Block 3, Lyndale Shores on Wood Lake described as
follows:
Beginning at the Southwest corner of Lot 8;
thence North 30 feet along the West line of
said lot; thence Southeasterly 50 feet more or
less on a straight line to a point on the
South line of said lot which is 40 feet from
the Southwest corner thereof; and thence 40
feet along the South line of said lot to the
Southwest corner thereof and the point of
beginning, according to the plat thereof on
file or on record in the office of the Registrar
of Titles in and for Hennepin County.