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Resolution approving and authorizing the sale and conveyance of a vacant lot under the Saint Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority’s (HRA) Guidelines for Disposition of a Splinter Parcel for a parcel at 473 Hatch Avenue in North End, District 6, Ward 5
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WHEREAS, the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "HRA") is a public body corporate and politic established pursuant to the provisions of Minnesota Statutes section 469.001, et seq. (the “Act”); and
WHEREAS, the HRA has the power to engage in development or redevelopment activities under Minnesota law and the HRA is authorized to engage in activities relating to (a) housing projects and development, (b) removal and prevention of the spread of conditions of blight or deterioration, (c) bringing substandard buildings and improvements into compliance with public standards, (d) disposition of land for private redevelopment, and (e) improving the tax base and the financial stability of the community, and to engage in the aforementioned activities when these needs cannot be met through reliance solely upon private initiative and which can also be undertaken in targeted neighborhoods; and is authorized to create redevelopment projects as defined in Minnesota Statutes section 469.002, subdivision 14; and
WHEREAS, in 2005 the HRA acquired a property lot, namely: 473 Hatch Avenue (the “Property”), in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with the legal description of Lot 34, Block 1, Neuru and Wallraffs Addition to Saint Paul, Ramsey County, and as otherwise described in the staff report submitted to the HRA Board with this resolution; and
WHEREAS, the HRA proposes to sell and convey the Property, substantially as shown on the attached Map hereto, to the adjacent property owners Noor Ali Leghari and Hadisa Ali Leghari pursuant to the terms and requirements of the Disposition Policy and Procedures for the Sale of Splinter Parcels for Residential Side Yards that was duly ado...
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