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Approving the Municipal Utility and Water Services Easement Agreement as the form for execution and recording for the Ford Redevelopment Site, now known as “Highland Bridge”; and authorizing the execution of Easement Documents accordingly (District 15, Ward 3).
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WHEREAS, the Highland Bridge development is subdivided into the lots, blocks, and outlots shown on the plat known as Ford, recorded as Document Number T02655825 in the Office of the County Recorder/Registrar of Titles for and in Ramsey County, Minnesota, as may be amended from time to time (the “Plat”). The Plat also created municipal utility and water services easements (“Municipal Utility Easement”) throughout the Highland Bridge project, with specific locations, duties and responsibilities to be determined later; and
WHEREAS, the proposed easement between the existing private properties owners, Pulte Homes of Minnesota LLC and Project Paul, LLC, and each of their successors-in-interest, and the City of Saint Paul (the “City”) and the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Saint Paul, d/b/a Saint Paul Regional Water Services (“SPRWS”) addresses in part location approval of private utility infrastructure, and construction, reconstruction, inspection, operation, maintenance, repair, or replacement, or any related activities, (the activities listed hereinafter referred to as “O&M”). To provide some guidance to all Parties as well as symmetry in process and procedure as between the City’s or SPRWS’s utilities and other utilities located in the Municipal Utility Easement, this Easement incorporates by reference Minnesota Statutes Section 237.162, as amended; Minnesota Rules Chapter 7819, as amended; and Saint Paul City Code regarding utility use of City right-of-way (“ROW”) and City approved franchise agreements, as such are amended from time to time; and
WHEREAS, the easement attached hereto pertains to the Municipal Utility Easement that extends through the following real property legal...
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