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RESOLUTION NO. 86-116
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING PURCHASE OF PROPERTY
FOR STREET RIGHT OF WAY
OTTAWA AVENUE - BELT LINE BOULEVARD CROSSING
WHEREAS, the City Council of St. Louis Park has authorized and directed
the City Manager to negotiate with Soo Line Railroad Company, for the purchase
of an easement, over the land herein described, for public uses; and
WHEREAS, Soo Line Railroad Company, pursuant to such negotiations, has
indicated its desire to sell said easement property to the City by a Deed of
Easement Crossing for the sum of $8,400; therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of St. Louis Park that the City of St.
Louis Park purchases from Soo Line Railroad Company, the following described
property in Hennepin County, Minnesota, to -wit:
An 80.00 foot easement for road purposes over, under and across the 60 foot
Railroad Right of Way across the Southeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4, Section
6, Township 28, Range 24, which lies 34 feet Westerly -and 46 feet Easterly of
the following described line:
Commencing at the most Southerly corner of Lot 1, Block 1, BELT LINE
INDUSTRIAL PARK 2ND ADDITION: thence South 59 degrees 15 minutes 24
seconds East on an assumed bearing along the Southeasterly extension of
the Southwesterly line of said Lot 1 a distance of 40.00 feet to the
point of beginning at said line; thence North 30 degrees 44 minutes 36
seconds East 112.38 feet; thence Northerly 768.57 feet along a tangen-
tial curve concave to the West having a radius of 785.30 feet and a
central angle of 56 degrees 04 minutes 30 seconds; thence North 25
degrees 19 minutes 54 seconds West, tangent to last described curve,
180.04 feet; thence Northerly 589.17 feet along a tangential curve
concave to the East having radius of 1268.10 feet and a central angle of
26 degrees 37 minutes 12 seconds and said line there terminating.
and the Mayor and City Manager are hereby authorized to execute any and all
instruments necessary to complete the purchase of said property, and the City
Manager is hereby authorized and directed to accept delivery of the deed and
to pay the sum of $8,400 from the Special Assessment Construction Fund to said
Soo Line Railroad Company as the purchase price of said property upon the
delivery to them of an easement to said property accompanied by an Abstract of
Title or Owner's Certificate of Title showing good and marketable title of
record to said property, together with an opinion of the Law Department of the
City of St. Louis Park approving the execution of the deed and the seller's
abstract of certificate.
Adopted by the City Council July 21, 1986
Reviewed for administration:
Approved as to form and legality:
City Attorney
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