Resolution - #01-01-007 - 01/09/2001

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• WHEREAS, Minn. Stat. §469.124, in order to accomplish said statute's purpose, authorizes cities, amongst other things, to develop a program for improving a Development District of the City to provide impetus for commercial development, to increase employment, to provide off - street parking to serve the shoppers and employees of the district to provide open space relief within the District, to protect pedestrians from vehicle traffic and inclement weather; and WHEREAS, Minn. Stat. §469.124 further declares that the actions to assist the implementation of the above development programs authorized by said statute are a public purpose and that the execution and financing of these programs are a public purpose; and WHEREAS, the City, pursuant to Minn. Stat. §469.126, has the authority to acquire land by eminent domain within its Development Districts; and WHEREAS, the City has authority to acquire real property for public purposes by eminent domain pursuant to Minn. Stat. Chapter 117 and pursuant to its City Charter; and WHEREAS, the City has the right to acquire the real property prior to the filing of an award by the Court appointed commissioners, pursuant to Minn. Stat. §117.011 and §117.042; and WHEREAS, the City finds and declares that it is in the public interest to acquire title to and_possession of the real property prior to the filing of an award by the court appointed commissioners; and WHEREAS, the real property which needs to be acquired for the industrial park purposes described above is legally described as follows That part of Lot 1, Auditors Subdivision Number 30, described as follows: Commencing at a point on the east line of said Lot a distance 1,295 feet south of the northeast corner thereof; thence north 67° 47' west a distance of 712.89 feet; thence north and parallel to the east line of said Lot 1 a distance of 419.09 feet; thence north 89° 27' west a distance of 308.19 feet; thence due north a distance of 150 feet; thence north 88° 05' 35" west a distance of 307.50 feet; thence south along the westerly right -of -way of Sunfish Lake Boulevard a distance of 807.43 feet to the point of beginning, all in Anoka County, Minnesota, subject to easements of record (one of which is 66 foot wide(N /S) by 307.50 foot long (E /W) driveway easement over the north 66 feet of the east 307.50 feet of the subject property in favor of the City of Ramsey); (The "Subject Property:); and WHEREAS, the Anoka County PIN's for the various parcels are as follows: 34- 32 -25 -11 -0018; 34- 32 -25 -11 -0019; and 34- 32 -25 -11 -0023 Resolution #01 -01 -007 Page 2 of 4