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Approving the release of grading easements along Ivy Avenue and the partial release of a utility easement reservation in vacated streets and alleys within The Heights development.
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WHEREAS, the Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul ("Port Authority") owns property in the city of Saint Paul formerly known as the Hillcrest Golf Course and now platted as The Heights, as documented in Certificate of Title Number 652627, attached hereto as Exhibit E (the “Port Property”); and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul ("City") has received a request from the Port Authority and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, Inc. to release various public property rights encumbering the most southerly portion of the Port Property formerly platted as Block 7 and Block 8, Harvester Heights, which is now situated within parts of Lot 1, Block 2; Lot 1, Block 3; and Outlot B of the Port Property (the "Encumbered Property"); and
WHEREAS, a grading easement for slopes, cuts and fills was granted to the City to grade part of the Encumbered Property along Ivy Avenue between Orange Avenue and McKnight Road (fka East Avenue), as set forth in the instrument recorded in Book 71 of Plans, page 2 on December 29, 1955 in the Ramsey County Recorder's Office, attached hereto as Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, a separate grading easement for slopes, cuts and fills was granted to the City to grade part of the Encumbered Property along Ivy Avenue between Orange Avenue and McKnight Road, as set forth in the instrument recorded as Document Number 378552 on May 29, 1957 in the Ramsey County Recorder's Office, attached hereto as Exhibit B; and
WHEREAS, various streets and alleys within the Encumbered Property were vacated on April 22, 1922 and recorded as Document Number 608255, attached hereto as Exhibit C; and also on October 3, 1922 and recorded as Document Number 618753, attached hereto as Exhibit D; and in said vacations a utility easement was reserved and is now reflected in the legal description of th...
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