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271057 - CITV CLERK 1 - FINANCE COUIICIl r JERY - MAVORTMENT GITY OF SAINT PAITL File NO. � � H� ��� Council Resolution y Presented By Referred To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Saint Paul has adopted a Redevelopment Plan for the Downtown Urban Renewal Area, Minn. R-20, by its Resolution �•F. No. 218124, on May 15 , 1964 , and a Redevelop- ment Plan for the Central Core Neighborhood Development Program, Minn. A-1-5, by its Resolution C.F. No. 261921, on August 21, 1973, hereafter collectively referred to as the Redevelopment Plans; and WHEREAS, said Redevelopment Plans set forth certain public actions , objectives and purposes to be accomplished by expenditure of public funds through property acquisition, such as Block A, Down- town Urban Renewal Area, and Block 27, Central Core NDP Area, clearance of blighted and substandard structures, provision of public improve�nents, other public prepa�ration for sale of such acquired property for public and private redevelopment, imposition of land use and building controls and requirements designed to accomplish the public purposes and objectives of the redevelopment project under- takings, and sale of land fo� redevelopment in accordance with said Plans, controls and requirements; and- - WHEREAS, the Council of the City of 5aint Paul has adopted a Development District Program for the Downtown Development District _' No. 3, by its Resolution C.F. No. 263751, on June 27, 1974, which Program sta�ed Citywide and Development District objectives to be accomplished through provision of pu3plic facilities, such as parking, pedestrian skyway system, people mover system and mall and people place on Seventh Street in aid of obtaining development of lands acquired in the redevelopment projects and other public objectives of said Program; and � COU[VCILMEN Yeas Na}�s Requested by Department of: Butler In Favor Hozza Hunt /�il�A/,- Levine _ _ Against BY .:�� T��fa+'� Roedler Sylvester Tedesco Form Approved y City Att ney Adopted by Council: Date — Certified Yassed by Council Secretary BY � By Approved by Ma��or: Date Approved by Mayor for Submission to Councii By BY �,�A� 1�—�2�I�G� 3 �NH17E - C�TV CLERf( ������ PINK - FINANCE GITY OF SAINT PALTL COUI1C11 CANARV - DEPARTMENT BLUE - MAVOR File NO. � ' Council Resolution Presented By Referred To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date -2- WHEREAS, during the implementation of the aforesaid Redevelop- ment and Development District Plans, in furtherance of the public development and redevelopment thereby undertaken, and in response to provision of the City's Community Development Block Grant Program, the Council, by its Resolution C.F. No. 267921, on September 30 , 1976, approved certain public undertakings and improvement activities as proposed in the Seventh Place Development Concept Plan approved by Operation 85 on September 16, 1976, including acquisition by the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (HRA) with City funds of Block 27, bounded by Seventh and Eighth Streets and Cedar and Minnesota Streets, and the undertaking by the City of plans for establishment of a pedestrian mall on Seventh Place between St. Peter and Sibley Streets; and WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Saint Paul, by its Resolution C.F. No. 268848, on April 5, 1977, approved a Project Description and Scope of Work for Preliminary Engineering and Related Activities, St. Paul Downtown People Mover Demonstration, and pursuant thereto the City has undertaken People Mover studies and plans and expended public money, and the HRA at direction of the Council has been placing in its Contract For Sale Of Land For Private Redevelopment, requirements that the design of such private development accommodate provision for construction of a Downtown People Mover System; and WHEREAS, City Planning Division, Department of Planning and Economic Development, has updated its Comprehensive Plan For Downtown Saint Paul in light of the Seventh Place Project and other public undertakings for downtown development and prepared a report entitled, "Tomorrow's Framework From Today's Foundation: Planning For powntown Saint Paul, " adopted by the St. Paul Planning Commission on April 22, 1977, and adopted by the Council of the City of Saint COUNCILMEN Requested by Department of: Yeas NaS�s Butler Hozza [n Favor Hunt Levine __ Against BY Roedler Sylvester Tedesco Form Approved by City Attorney Adopted by Council: Date — Certified Passed by Council Secretary BY By Approved by Mayor: Date Approved by Mayor for Submission to Council gy By WH17E - CITY CLERK COUIICII ��"�'"��� PINK - FINANCE G I TY OF SA I NT 1 A lJ L CANARV - DEPARTMENT BLUE - MAYOR File NO. ` � Council Resolution Presented By Referred To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date -3- Paul, by its Resolution C.F. No. 269426, on July 19, 1977; and WHEREAS, in accordance with the several plans and public improve- ment programs undertaken by the City or by the HRA at the direction and with the approval of the City Counsil, wifiX� City of Saint Paul urban renewal and development district�bond funds, tax levies, and other public revenues, herea£ter collect�ly referred to as the Eeventh Place Project, HRA undertook acquisition of said Block 27 and programmed and concluded sale of Block 27 and of Block A acquired in the Downtown Urban Renewal Project for public and p�tate redevelop- ment in said Blocks and in to be vacated Seventh Street abutting them in a unified multi-purpose and physically interconnected development including a public parking facility, public galleria, hotel, retail commercial and office facilities designed with provision for off- street loading facilities serving these development designed with provision for construction of the Downtown People Mover System within said development; and WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Saint Paul, by its Resolution C.F. No. 270586, on February 21, 1978, determined that the public parking facility to be constructed in Block A of the Seventh Place Project constituted a public improvement undertaken by the City of Saint Paul requiring the removal and relocation of utilities located in the streets adjacent to Block A and ordered Northern States Power Company and Northwestern Bell Telephone Company to remove and/or relocate at their expense said utilities as required for the construc- tion of said public parking facility; and WHEREAS, under date of April 26, 1978, the Council is in receipt of a communication from the Mayor of the City of Saint Paul requesting COUNCILMEN Yeas Na}�s Requested by Department of: Butler [n Favor Hozza Hunt Levine __ Against BY Roedler Sylvester Tedesco Form Approved by City Attorney Adopted by Council: Date Certified Passed by Council Secretary BY By Approved by Mavor: Date _ Approved by Mayor for Submission to Council By BY WHITE - CITV CLERK COl1I1C1I ����� • PINK - FINANCE GITY OF SAINT PAUL CANARV - DEPARTMENT BLUE - MAYOR File NO. ' Council Resolution Presented By Referred To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date -4- Council consideration of necessity to remove and relocate certain utility facilities in part of Eighth Street abutting Block 27 of the Seventh Place Project by reason of the use of said part of Eighth Street by the City and the public for access to the off-street loading facilities being constructed in Block 27 to serve the Seventh Place goject development, which request was referred to the Council Public Works Committee for hearing upon notice to said Companies; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL, having received the report and recommendation of the Public Works Committee: 1. That the provision of off-street loading facilities in Block 27 of the Seventh Place Project is required by the Redevelopment Plans and Contract For Sale of Land For Private Redevelopment (Contract) dated Aug�st 26, 1977, between the City of Saint Paul, the HRA and Oxford Properties U.S. Ltd. (Oxford) , that the public access to these off street loading facil.ities will be in a ramp in the South 25 feet of Eighth Street between Cedar and Minnesota Streets; �that the construction of this ramp will require the removal of gas, electric and telephone facilities located in said South 25 feet of Eighth Street; that under the Contract, Oxford was required to design its improvements to accommodate the location and provision of public improvements undertaken by the City of Saint Paul, and the Eighth Street access and ramp construction for the off street loading facilities is the only feasible method of adequately meeting the further Plan and Contract requirement for off street loading facilities; and that this means of access and ramp construction is the result of the routing plan for the Downtown People Mover System in Block 27 and the location of the public galleria and public parking facility, COUNC[LMEN Yeas Nay�s Requested by Department of: Butler Hozza In Favor Hunt Levine __ Against BY Roedler Sylvester Tedesco Form Approved by City Attorney Adopted by Council: Date — Certified Passed by Council Secretary BY - By Appro��ed by Mayor: Date _ Approved by Mayor for Submission to Council By — BY WHITE - CITV CLERK COIIIICII ����� PINK - FINANCE CITY OF SAINT 1 AUL CANARY - DEPARTMENT -a- BLUE - MAVOR File NO. ` � � • Council Resolution Presented By Referred To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date -5- public improvements undertaken by the City of Saint Paul within the Seventh Place Project and necessary to accomplish the unified multi- purpose �private and public improvements undertaken in the Project. 2. That Northern States Power Company and Northwestern Bell Telephone Company have agreed to remove and relocate their respective utility facilities from the South 25 feet of Eighth Street between Cedar and Minnesota Streets as required for the construction of the Seventh Place Project. 3. That Northern States Power Company and Northwestern Bell Telephone Company are hereby advised and directed to remove their respective facilities in accordance with the Schedule Of Required Utility Relocations attached to the April 26, 1978 communication from the Mayor as the same may be revised by administrative directi�� from the Mayor f � of the City of Saint Paul, with expense of said removal and relocation to be borne in accordance with the letter agreements dated May 11, 1978, with respect to Northern States Power Company, and dated May 12 , 1978, with respect to Northwestern Bell-- Telephone Company. COUNCILMEN Yeas Nay�s Requested by Department of: Butler � Hozza In Favor Hunt � _ � __ Against BY ��e�ile� S ylvester � �A� � 6 19T�' Form Approve City Att ney, Adopted b ouncil: Date — Cer ted Pa - y Co .il Secret ry BY l' �1'L'� • — Appr ve by Mavor: ate _��� � 8 �� Approved by Mayor for Submission to Council By — - BY �~� pUBLISHED MAY Z ? �97a (;ITY OF SAINT PAUL � � FFIC� OF THI� CITY COIINCIL v ������ O � D a t e : , May 12, 1978 � ,�` � COMMITTEE REPORT � _ •� . . , TO : Saint Paul City Council FROM � Committee on PUBLIC WORKS . � Ruby Hunt �oirman, makes the following . report o C.F. ❑ O�dinance F [] Resolution ❑ Other � • � 1 - ; T LE . , . . _ ; - . ; The Public Works Cortmittee at their meeting of May 12, 1978 recomnended 'i aPproval of the resolution whereby Oxford Properties and the City of _ � j St. Paul will split the cost of $20,000 to be paid to Northern States , ) Po+rer Company and $21 ,000 to Northwestern Bell Telephone Company for relocation of utilities on Eighth Street. . I ! Concer , the Corrmittee took no action � but requested Kent Schonberger to prepare a report in writing to the � � � � Council for the public hearing. � � ` , ! � i � i I � . � '. � � • . • i � �"ZI- SEVEN?H FLOOR SAINT PAUL, biINNESOTA 55102 ; _�,.,. �., i , ..'�i.�.� , �� ' ....., • -- . � � �, . � : . 2'�1��'� � SCHEDULE OF REQUIRED UTILITY RELOCATIO�iS FOR CO�STRUCTiON OF — PUBLIC GA�LEP,IA/OXFORD FACILITY IN BLOCK 27 . The following schedule has been prepared by the Department of = . Planning and Economic Development based upon meetings held on April 21 , 1978, with representatives of Northern States Po�ver Company and Northwestern Bell Telephone Company and reflects tt�eir estimates of time required to relocat� utilities Trom the south side of Eight� Street between Cedar and t�innesota to the north_side of the street. • . GAS - NORTHERN STATES POtiJER COMPANY , The existing gas mains now located on E�ighth Street should be cut back to Cedar and h1innesota Streets toward the center lines to the extent that �hbe com1leted�byeJulyelW�1978evelopment construction. . Cut-offs must P ELECTRIC - PaORTNERN STA7ES POWER COMPA^lY Electric service.located on the south side of Eigh� Street b�low � the sidewalk must be relocated to the north side of Eighth Street. The construction of the ne��i line and the vacation of the present line must be completed by October 1 , 1978. The electric transformer located in a sidelvalk vault on Cedar Street � ' just south of the intersection of Cedar and Eighth Street may also ha�e 'to be relocated to the sidewalk on.Cedar Street north of Eighth Street next to the Associated General Contractor's Buiic:ing. The � develop°r and his contractor are to determine if th2 transforr�r c�n remain in its present location by providing special foundations to support �he vault and keep the transformer safe. The deter- mination in this possibility will be confirmed by rJSP, but if it is concluded that tne transformer must be relocated, relocation must be complete by Qctob�r 1 , 1978. ' TELEPHO►�F - �JORTH!4ESTERN SELL COi�;°ANY _ The telephon� lines in the south side of Eight3�Street bet:•�een Cedar _ and t4innzsota should be relocated to the north side of the street. Construction of the ne�.r line and1978ndonment of the present line must be co�p1ete by �ioverber 1 , _ I '�; CITY OF` SAINT PAUL sJ �+ �(� 1� ' OFFICE OF THE GITY COIINCIL ���(1��"J , y�•, 0�� � � a,�� �g� � �.� ��dtf vF�O(lf�F � � . y,. _ Va Do t e : May 12, 1978 COMMITTEE RE PORT TO : Saint Paul City Councii FROM � Committee on PUBLTC WORKS Ruby Hunt hairman, makes the following . report o C.F. [� Ordinance ❑ Resolution [] Other TtTLE : The Public Works Comnittee at their meeting of May T2, 1978 recommend'ed approval of the resolution whereby Oxford Properties and the City of St. Paul will split the cost of $20,000 to be paid to Northern States Power Company and $21 ,000 to Northwestern Bell Telephone Company for relocation of utilities on Eighth Street. Concerning the Gabriel Road improvement, the Committee took no action but requested Kent Schonberger to prepare a report in writing to the Council for the public hearing. CTfY HALL SEVENTH FLOOR SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA 55102 `��� ✓ � � : `c " �i�y� { i •' ; :'t v� A � ' � , . �� _ fi��� �. � -� � y w ,y' �''� r ar�- � �. � � .,t �� � � �� I h ` �� � `�'� �F" 1 " .. � ,-t �` t � � f � } '�A'!i `` . � t '� I ` t� `' * � . S 1�� � .. � . . . � . . . � �� �t�,�� �-1�l\. . . . .. . ( ;� .. y� �S� ��; ,l �� .� �. � � ♦ � < '� �h � ,fi' �^. )/ - . �7 � _ .. � t � t 1 ' �x .. f � �. � � .. 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" � f � � �. . �. . i . �. �'[ s. � r` . , . .. . � . ., , , ... . . �`. .. . . . _. .,�.,. ,.i , f./" . . �'? ._ .! . , . . � Gi r�� c��� Sn1�T 1'�ZTL se:eeaam O 1�`1�I(i 1: O 1� T II 1: �I�11'(�I: 1�iBlY6�B\B •�ifB�YB GEOAGE LATIDIER MAY O R April 26 , 1978 To: Council President and Members of the City Council From: George Latimer�,J ��� � Re: Relocation of Utility Facilities in Eighth Street Seventh Place Project Provision of the public improvements in the Seventh Place Project being undertaken by the City of Saint Paul with local and federal funding, in cooperation with the Port Authority and Housing and Redevelopment Authority, St. Paul Joint Venture and Oxford Properties U.S. Ltd. , will require the relocation of existing gas , electric and telephone facilities from the South 25 feet of Eighth Street between the East right-of-way line of Cedar Street and the West right-of-way line of Minnesota Street. Pursuant to Sections 59. 03, 503. 03 and 504. 03 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company and Northern States Power Company are required to remove and relocate their utilities without cost to the City of Saint Paul when advised by the Council to so remove and relocate as necessary to use of the said Street by the City and necessary by reason of the undertaking of any public improvement by the City. The Council is requested after due consideration of this matter to direct the removal and relocation of these utility facilities in accordance with the attached Schedule as necessary to the use by the City and public of the said South 25 feet of Eighth Street for vehicular access to the off-street loading facilities in the abutting Seventh Place Project property and as necessary to the Downtown People Mover public improvement undertaken by the City within the Seventh Place Project Area. cc: Mr. Thomas Connelly, Northern States Power Company Mr. George Soderberg, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company O . � ' APRIL 26, 1978 "�PE���� SCHEDULE OF REQUIRED UTILITY RELOCATIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC GALLERIA/OXFORD FACILITY IN BLOCK 27 The following schedule has been prepared by the Department of Planning and Economic Development based upon meetings held on April 21 , 1978, with representatives of Northern States Power Company and Northwestern Bell Telephone Company and ref7ects their estimates of time required to relocate utilities from the south side of Eigh th Street between Cedar and Minnesota to the north side of the street. GAS - NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY The existing gas mains now located on Eigh th Street should be cut back to Cedar and Minnesota Streets toward the center lines to the extent that they will not interfere with development construction. Cut-offs must be completed by July 1 , 1978. � ELECTRIC - NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY Electric service .located on the south side of Eigh th Street below " the sidewalk must be relocated to the north side of Eighth Street. The construction of the new line and the vacation of the present line must be completed by October 1 , 1978. The electric transformer located in a sidewalk vault on Cedar Street just south of the intersection of Cedar and Eigh th Street may also have to be relocated to the sidewalk on Cedar Street north of Eighth Street next to the Associated General Contractor's Buiiding. The developer and his contractor are to determine if the transformer ca�n remain in its present location by providing special foundations to support the vault and keep the transformer safe. The deter- mination in this possibility will be confirmed by NSP, but if it is concluded that the transformer must be relocated, relocation must be complete by October 1 , 1978. TELEPHONE - NORTHWESTERN BELL COMPANY The telephone lines in the south side of Eightf�Street between Cedar and Minnesota should be relocated to the north side of the street. Construction of the new line and abandonment of the present line must be complete by November 1 , 1978.