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Approving the Release of Easement imposed upon private property in the city of Fridley.
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WHEREAS, the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Saint Paul and the City of Saint Paul have been apprised of the fact that the property described below (“Property”) has filed of record a perpetual easement held on behalf of the Board and the City for the purpose of diverting, taking and drawing water from Lake Baldwin in Anoka County for the purpose of supplying water to the inhabitants of the City of Saint Paul.
Property description:
Parcel A:
The Southeast One Quarter (SE ¼) of the Southwest One Quarter (SE ¼) except the East Six Hundred (600) feet thereof, except the South Four Hundred (400) feet thereof and except the North Fifty (50) feet lying West of the East One Hundred fifty (150) feet thereof, Section Eleven (11), Township Thirty (30) North, Range Twenty-four (24) West, Anoka County, Minnesota.
Parcel B:
The East Six Hundred (600) feet of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE ¼ of SW ¼) of Section Eleven (11), Township Thirty (30), Range Twenty-four (24), except the north Fifty (50) feet thereof, and except the South Four Hundred (400) feet thereof, Anoka County, Minnesota.
Parcel C:
The South 400 feet of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, in Section 11, Township 30 North, Range 24 West, Anoka County, Minnesota.
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WHEREAS, the Board and City never had, to the best of their knowledge, a need for an easement over this Property and have determined that the recording of such easement must have been in error; and
WHEREAS, the Board and City were requested by the current owner of the Property to release all easement rights imposed upon the Property by executing a release of easement document to be recorded by the Anoka County Recorder’s office; and
WHEREAS, by adoption of Resolution Number 17-1042, the Board did approve a Release of Easement which does release the aforestated rights on the Property possessed by the Board and the City, and did request the Council of the City of Saint Paul to adopt a resolution approving said Release of Easement; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Saint Paul does hereby approve the Release of Easement which does release all rights on the above described Property possessed by the City of Saint Paul and the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Saint Paul to divert, take and draw water from Lake Baldwin in the County of Anoka, State of Minnesota, to supply the inhabitants of the City of Saint Paul, and that the proper officers are hereby authorized and directed to execute said Release of Easement on behalf of the City.