255829 OR161N,{�TO CITY CLEltK 25����
, CITY OF ST. PAUL FIOENCIL NO.
. OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
UN RESOLUTION—GENERAL FORM
PRESENTED BY
COMMISSIONE ATF
WHEREAS� The Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City
of Saint Paul ha.s petitioned to vacate the following streets and
alley:
Leech Street, lying between the Northerly right-of-way line
of Forbes Avenue, extended and the Southerly right-of-way
line of West Seventh Street� extended;
Wilkin Street, lying between the Northerly right-of-way line
of Forbes Avenue, extended and the Southerly right-of-way
line of Ramsey Street� extended;
Public Al1ey in Block 1, Leech's Addition to St. Paul,
except that part taken by the City of Saint Paul for the
widening of West Seventh Street;
WH�REAS' The City of Saint Paul owns fee title to land adjacent
to a portion of the above streets and alley, and pursuant to Section
129 of the Cha.rter of the City of Saint Paul a majority of the prop�
erty owners abutting the streets or alleys requested to be vacated
must join in said petition so as to give the City Council jurisdic-
tion to consider the vacation of streets and alley petition; now,
therefore, be` it
RESOLVED� Tha.t the Commissioner of Public Works be and he is
hereby authorized and directed to execute the said petition to vacate
portion of streets and alley set forth above and contained in the
petition of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority, and to do so on
behalf of the City of Saint Paul.
FORM P VEp:�
As r rati C unsei
SEP 2 41971
COUNCILMEN Adopted by the Counci� 19.—
Yeas Nays
Butler Ap ov SEP �' 4 197� 19�
C�se�– ���-u ��
Levine � T� Favor
Meredith �
Sprafka ��
Tedesco A gainst
PUBLISHED OCT � �
Mr. President, McCarty
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; • PETZ'!'ION FO;: VACATIOii OF
CERTA?Tr PLR?LIG ST�:�ETS A:�'D LAI�'DS IN ����c-�
THE WEST SEVENT}i STP�VT NuP AREA. MIiv'tv. A-1-7, N0. I ���
T0: TEiE HONOFtt�BI.E MAYOR
and
Tf-IE COUNCIL QF THE CITI' OF SAINT PAUL
' Your Petitioner, the Nousing and Redevelopment Authority of the City oF
Saint 2'aul, Minnesota, respectfully states and alleges that it is the fee
owner of record of the real estate abutting those public st-reets hereinafter
described, to-wit:
Leech Sr_reet, lying betcaeen the Northerly right-of-way
line of Forbes Avenue, e�:tended and the Southerly right-
of-way line af West Seventh SCr_eet, exterrded
Wilkin Street, lying beL-��een the h'ort}lerly right-of-way
line of �orbes Avenue, extended and the Souther.ly righr-
of-way line o£ Ramsey Street, extend.ed
� Publi_c alley in I33.ock 1, 1.eech's Addition to St. Paul
except tha� part talcen by tlie City of Saint Paul for
the widening of Wese Seventh Street
Your Peti�ioner £urth�r states and alleges that the Cit.y af Saint Paul,
I•iz��ncsota, i.s �he fee owner of recard of the unimgroved lar.d hereinafter
descrit���d, to-wit:
Lo�s 6 and 7 , T31oc:k 2, I.eech.'s Addition to St. Paul
soueheas� of jdest Seventh Street
Lot 2, Block 29, Rzce and Irvine`s Addition to Saint Paul
Petitio�ler Iidu�i.t�g anu Redevelopment Authority of the City of Sain� Paui,
Minnesota, pur`suant to the grovisions of the Redevelo�rnent Plan for West
Seventh Street NDP Area Minn. A-1-7, adopted and appr�,v�3 by the Council of
the City of Saint Fau?, Minnesota, on January 22, 1970, Council File ?�o.
247103, proposes to deveJ_op tl�e aforesaid streets and land together with
abutting land as part of a combin�d use educational and recreational are�.
Your Petitioner hezein requests that the provisions of the Saint Paul
Legislative Cacie, �.s amended, pertaining to� th� reservation of easements , ri�ht::
nn� other cl�,�ms for the i�stall.ati�ni main�enance and operation of any sewGr
water, gas, te.l.ephone or electrical main, pipe az.- condix�t of public ir±strv-
r.:entali.ty for the C�_t;� af Szir.t pat�i ;nd for OC�I�Y �:CL'SQi'IS vr corporations
,
� having public instrimnentalities in the vacated public ways be waived upon
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the presentation to and approval by the Council �f tite City of Saint Pat:1
af statements of intent to abandon and not use utility and other public
easements in the aforesaid public ways� �
WHEREFORE, your Petitioner respectfully requests your Hanorable Bo3y
to vacate the above-described public streets and land for redevelopment
in the West Seventh Street NDP Area Minn. A-1-7.
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Dated this � day of� - l. _��' � , 1971.
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HOUSING AND REDEVE�£fii�NT AUTHORI'1'Y
OF THE CI7.'I' OF SAINT PAUL, MIi�'NESQTA
(S EA L) � � '��'�
By --�
Edward N. Helfeld, Execu+Eive Director
STAT� OF MINNESOTEI ) �
) SS. �
COUNTY OF RAMSEY )
EDWARD N. HELFELD, being first duly sworn, says tY.at he i.s the person
named in and who executed the foregoin� Petie-Lo�� on behaLf a� the Housi.ng
and Redeveloir,nent Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Mini:esota; that l�e
is the Execueive Director of said Authority; that the seal a�tached thereto
is the corparate seal of said Authority; that he has si.gned and sealed this
Petieion by authority of its Board of Commissioners; and that he has read
, the Petirion and knows the contents thereof, and that the same are in all
things true as set forth therein.
. " ,
EDWARD I3. HELF 'LD
Subscribed and sworn to before me
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this / � da� of September, 1971. .
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,..����/' /` ._.s� C; _ " 's_
, ` -___.__; . Commissianer Roger Conway
�.av�r,rvE isc�F,r�r DePartmeni� �f Public Works
Nof-ry Publir, FZ;,r�.,,�y CountY� f�inrL
MY Commission Ezpire,l Apr;l 7i 1973 '
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