TRANSITORY ORDINANCE NO. - 19.12

AN ORDINANCE VACATING PART OF A STREET EASEMENT

THE CITY OF RICHFIELD DOES ORDAIN:

Section 1: The plat of Bourbon and Basin First Addition dedicates land lying north of the north line of Lot 1, Block 1 as public right of way for West 76th Street.

Sec. 2. The owner of Lot 1, Block 1, Bourbon and Basin Addition has petitioned for a partial vacation of that street easement.

Sec. 3. The City of Richfield held the first reading on December 11, 2018, and the second reading on January 8, 2019. Legal notice was published in the City's official newspaper as required by ordinance.

Sec. 4. The Council finds that there is no public need for a street easement over that part of the platted street that is the subject of the petition.

Sec. 5. The Council finds that various utility lines lie underground within that part of the platted street being vacated (including gas and electric lines). This ordinance is not intended to affect or vacate any existing utility easement, and the Council specifically reserves any existing utility easements from the ordinance vacating part of the street easement.

Sec. 6. Upon the effective date of this Ordinance, that part of West 76th Street dedicated in the plat of Bourbon and Basin First Addition lying within the parcel described on the attached Exhibit A, and depicted on the attached Exhibit B, is vacated.

Sec. 7. This ordinance shall be effective on the day following publication pursuant to Sections 3.09 and 5.01 of the City Charter.

Sec. 8. The City Clerk is directed to prepare a certificate of completion of vacation proceedings and to record the vacation in the office of the Hennepin County Registrar of Titles or Hennepin County Recorder, as appropriate.

Passed by the City Council of the City of Richfield, Minnesota this 8th day of January, 2019.

	_____ Maria Regan Gonzalez, Mayor
ATTEST: _____ Elizabeth VanHoose, City Clerk

 

EXHIBIT A
Legal Description of the part of the Street Easement being vacated:

All that part of the public way dedicated as West 76th Street on the plat of Bourbon and Basin First Addition, Hennepin County, Minnesota, lying southerly of a line run parallel with and distant 100.00 feet southerly of the centerline of West 76th Street (said centerline also being the north line of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 33, Township 28, Range 24), and lying westerly of a line run parallel with and 30.00 feet westerly of the east line of Lot 1, Block 1, Bourbon and Basin First Addition.

(Abstract Property)

EXHIBIT B
Sketch of the part of the Street Easement being vacated:

(Bill No. 2019-1)