Explanation
BACKGROUND: Ordinance 2234-2019 authorized the Director of the Department of Development to transfer one parcel (010-027792) to WP Properties QOZB, LLC., who was required to split the parcel and deed half of the land back to the City. The transfer was to provide a house owned by the buyer access to an alley to construct a new sanitary sewer connection. Another parcel, 291-293 E. Eighth Ave. (010-008699) was conveyed to the City from Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment and is to be combined with half of parcel 010-027792. The new parcel is to be held by the Land Bank for an existing community garden. While under review for the lot split, an additional sewer line was identified on parcel 010-008699 that serves an adjacent building. This Ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to execute any and all easements necessary to complete the lot split.
FISCAL IMPACT: No fiscal impact.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested to enable the City to immediately grant the easement to allow the lot split and new sewer line.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to quit-claim grant one or more easements on 291-293 E. Eighth Ave. (010-008699) and 281-283 E. Eighth Ave. (010-027792); to waive the provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to the sale of city-owned realty; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, by Ordinance 2234-2019, Council Authorized the Director of the Department of Development to sell and transfer one parcel of land, 281-283 E. Eighth Ave. (010-027792) to WP Properties QOZB, LLC to allow the buyer access to an adjacent alley to construct a new sewer line; and
WHEREAS, as a condition of the conveyance, the buyer was to obtain a lot split and convey half of the parcel back to the City. This half of the parcel is to be combined with an adjacent parcel, 291-293 E. Eighth Ave. (010-008699), a parcel conveyed to the City by Campus Partners for Com...
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