Ordinance 161-71 - Laserfiche WebLink

• • ORDINANCE NO. /6 / - 7 / AN ORDINANCE of the City of Everett, Washington providing for the acquisition of certain property for development of a neighborhood park, providing for the authorization of the City Attorney to initiate proceedings for condemnation, appropriation, taking and damaging of land and other property necessary therefor; declaring the necessity therefor; and providing for payment thereof; and that this ordinance shall become effective upon becoming valid. WHEREAS, in connection with the acquisition of certain property at the southwest corner of Beverly Lane and Madison Street for arterial street improve- ment purposes, the City Council of the City of Everett finds that adjacent property should be developed into a neighborhood park for the benefit of the general public, and WHEREAS, the City of Everett, in direct dealings with certain land owners, has been unable to acquire the portion of land necessary to the completion of the above improvement because of a valuation dispute, and WHEREAS, the City of Everett must now begin condemnation proceedings both to acquire the property and to settle the valuation question. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: The public safety, necessity, and convenience demand, and the City Council so finds that the property hereafter described be improved by development of a neighborhood park including public conveniences and facilities as deemed appropriate by City Council: The North 71. 07 feet of the East 110 feet of Lot 1, Beverly Acreage Tracts, according to plat thereof recorded in volume 10 of plats, page 50, records of Snohomish County, Washington EXCEPT the North 30 feet thereof conveyed for roads, EXCEPT the following described tract: Beginning at the Southerly right-of-way of Madison Street and Westerly line of East 110. 0 feet of said Lot 1; thence Southerly along the Westerly line of said East 110. 0 feet of Lot 1 a distance of 6. 0 feet; thence Easterly parallel with the North line of said Lot 1 a distance of 79. 77 feet; thence on a curve to the right having a radius of 20. 0 feet and a central angle of 90°40'02" an arc distance of 21. 92 feet; thence Southerly parallel with the Easterly line of said Lot 1 to the Southerly line of the Northerly 71. 07 feet; thence Easterly along the Southerly line of the Northerly 71. 07 feet of said Lot 1 a distance of 10. 0 feet to the Easterly line of said Lot 1; thence Northerly along the Easterly line of said Lot 1 a distance of 41. 07 feet to the Southerly right-of-way line of Madison Street; thence Westerly along the Southerly right-of-way line of Madison Street to the point of beginning. That'the said property shall be acquired in fee for the purpose of the said improvement. Section 2: All land rights and privileges sought within the limits of the ' above described property are hereby condemned, appropriated, taken, and damaged .for public use and necessity for park purposes; and all such lands, rights and privileges are to be taken, damaged and appropriated only after just compensation has been made or paid in the court for the owners thereof in the manner provided by law.