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Resolution correcting the legal description contained in Resolution No. PH 22-381 adopted on December 14, 2022 related to the authorization to acquire a vacant lot currently used as a parking lot from the City of Saint Paul located at 410 Griggs and subsequently convey the same to adjacent property owner, Concordia University, District 13, Ward 1
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WHEREAS, the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (“HRA”) is a public body corporate and politic organized, existing, and operating under the laws of the State of Minnesota, Minn. Stat. Sec. 469.001, et seq. (the “Act”); and
WHEREAS, the HRA has the power to engage in development and redevelopment activities under the Act, and is authorized to create redevelopment projects as defined in the Act, and said activities include but are not limited to: (a) providing adequate, safe and sanitary dwellings, remedying housing shortages for low and moderate income residents, and providing housing for persons of all incomes through housing projects and development, (b) removing and preventing blight or deterioration, (c) bringing substandard buildings and improvements into compliance with public standards, (d) performing duties according to the comprehensive plan, (e) disposing of land for private redevelopment, and (f) improving the tax base and the financial stability of the community; and
WHEREAS, the HRA adopted Resolution No. PH 22-381 on December 14, 2022 which approved the conveyance of the property located at 410 Griggs Street North (“Property”) from the City to the HRA, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the HRA Disposition Policy and a three-way purchase and sale agreement with the City and Concordia University, St. Paul; and
WHEREAS, the Property was properly identified by address and PID but the legal description was inaccurate; and
WHEREAS, the HRA hereby desires to correct the legal description contained in Resolution No. PH 22-381; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota:
1. That the legal description contained in Resolution No. PH 22-381 is hereby deleted and replaced with the following:
That part of Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, I0, Block 6, together with vacated Donohue Avenue that accrued thereto by reason of the vacation thereof, all in MIDWAY INDUSTRIAL DIVISION, according to the recorded plat thereof, Ramsey County, Minnesota, described as beginning at the southwest corner of the east 20.00 feet of said Lot I0; thence on an assumed bearing of South 89 degrees 40 minutes 03 seconds West along the south line of said Block 6 a distance of 306.60 feet; thence North 00 degrees 12 minutes 14 seconds West 235.46 feet; thence North 89 degrees 47 minutes 46 seconds East 13.57 feet; thence northeasterly 15.71 feet along a tangential curve concave to the northwest having a radius of I0.00 feet and a central angle of 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds; thence North 00 degrees 12 minutes 14 seconds West, tangent to said curve, 15.14 feet; thence North 89 degrees 47 minutes 46 seconds East 153.43 feet; thence North 00 degrees 12 minutes 14 seconds West 88.00 feet; thence North 89 degrees 47 minutes 46 seconds East 13.74 feet; thence North 00 degrees 43 minutes 39 seconds West 15.08 feet to a point on the south line of the north half of said vacated Donohue Avenue distant 336.84 feet, as measured along said south line, westerly of the southerly extension of the east line of Block 2, said MIDWAY INDUSTRIAL DIVISION; thence North 89 degrees 40 minutes 01 second East along said south line of the north half of vacated Donohue Avenue 116.84 feet to the northerly extension of the west line of the east 20.00 feet of said Lot 3; thence South 00 degrees 04 minutes 13 seconds East 363.25 feet along said northerly extension, said west line of the east 20.00 feet of Lot 3 and the west line of the east 20.00 feet of said Lot IO to the point of beginning.