Ordinance 1688ORDINANCE NO. 1688
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON
PROVIDING FOR THE ACQUISITION FOR SANITARY AND
STORM DRAINAGE EASEMENTS OF CERTAIN PARCELS OF
PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF EDMONDS, PROVIDING
FOR AUTHORIZATION OF THE CITY ATTORNEY TO
INITIATE PROCEEDINGS FOR CONDEMNATION, APPRO-
PRIATION, TAKING AND DAMAGING OF LAND AND OTHER
PROPERTY NECESSARY THEREFOR, DECLARING THE
NECESSITY THEREFOR, AND PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT
THEREOF.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That the public health, safety, necessity
and convenience demand, and the City Council so finds, that a
sanitary sewerage system and storm drainage system be con-
structed in the City of Edmonds for which Local Improvement
District No. 192 has been formed by the City Council of the
City of Edmonds. The public health, safety, necessity and con-
venience further demand, and the City Council further finds,
that in the construction of said project a sanitary sewer ease-
ment and storm drainage easement with all necessary connections,
appurtenances and access thereto, be and the same hereby is
laid off, condemned, appropriated and established over and across
certain properties and lines, all situate in the City of Edmonds,
County of Snohomish, State of Washington, and legally described
as follows:
1. From a tract of land legally described as:
The West 340 feet of tract 3, block 3,
Alderwood Manor No. 9, according to plat
thereof recorded in volume 10 of plats,
page 6, Records of Snohomish County,
Washington,
a perpetual easement for the purpose of installing, constructing,
operating, maintaining and replacing a sanitary sewer line and a
storm sewer line over, across, in, along and under the following
described tract of land:
The West 10 feet of the West 340 feet
of lot 3, block 3, Alderwood Manor No.
9, according to the plat thereof as
recorded in volume 10 of plats, page 6,
Records of Snohomish County, Washington.
2. From a tract of land legally described as:
The South 30 feet of the North 160 feet,
except the West 340 feet thereof, lot 3,
block 3, Alderwood Manor No. 9, according
to plat thereof recorded in volume 10 of
plats, page 6, Records of Snohomish County,
Washington,
a perpetual easement for the purpose of installing, constructing,
operating, maintaining and replacing a sanitary sewer line and a
storm sewer line over, across, in, along and under the following
described tract of land:
The South 30 feet of the North 160 feet
LESS the West 340 feet of tract 3, block
3, Alderwood Manor No. 9, according to
the plat thereof as recorded in volume
10 of plats, page 6, Records of Snohomish
County, Washington.
Section 2. All land, rights, privileges and other prop-
erty within the limits of the lots, blocks and tracts of land
described hereinabove are hereby condemned, appropriated, taken
and damaged for public use and necessity for the purpose of a
sanitary storm line and a storm drainage line; and all such lands,
rights, privileges and other property are to be taken, damaged
and appropriated only after just compensation has been made or
paid into clerk for the owners thereof in the manner provided by
law.
Section 3. The entire cost of the improvements provided
for herein shall be paid by the City of Edmonds from general
funds applicable thereto, and specifically Local Improvement
District Fund No. 192, or, if for any reason the monies in said
EPM
fund are insufficient, from any other general funds of the said
City applicable thereto.
Section 4. The taking and damaging herein to said
property shall include the perpetual rights of the City's
agents to enter upon the real estate described herein at any
time that it may deem fit, and construct, maintain and repair
said sanitary sewerage system and storm drainage system over
and across said property, together with the right to excavate
and/or fill said easement, and the further right to remove
vegetation or any and all other obstructions of any kind or
description whatsoever.
Section 5. The City Attorney is hereby authorized and
directed to begin and prosecute the proceedings provided by
law to condemn, take, appropriate and damage the land, rights,
privileges and other property necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of this ordinance, and is further authorized in conduct-
ing said proceedings and for the purpose of minimizing damages
to stipulate as to the use of the property hereby authorized
to be condemned and appropriated and as to the reservation of
any right of use to any owner, provided that such reservation
does not interfere with the use of said property by the City as
provided by this ordinance.
APPROVED
MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: December 18, 1973
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: December 18, 1973
PUBLISHED: December 26, 1973
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