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Resolution authorizing the Borough of Crafton to take, by eminent domain, certain permanent and temporary real estate interests in a portion of that certain parcel of real estate, identified by the Allegheny County Assessment Office as Block and Lot No. 39-F-280, located within the boundaries of the City of Pittsburgh
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WHEREAS, the Borough of Crafton (the “Borough”) is authorized and empowered by the Pennsylvania Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S. §§ 101 et seq. (the “Code”) to exercise eminent domain powers for the erection and extension of sewage and stormwater systems; and
WHEREAS, the Borough requires a temporary construction easement and perpetual and permanent stormwater, access, maintenance, and drainage easements on, in, over, across, under, and through that certain parcel, being identified by the Allegheny County Assessment Office as Block and Lot no. 39-F-280, situate in the City of Pittsburgh, 28th Ward (the “Subject Parcel”), to enable the Borough, its successors and assigns to install, construct, place, reconstruct, replace, use, operate, modify, maintain and repair pipes, conduits, drains, and other related facilities for storm water collection, conveyance, and drainage in connection with the Broadhead Separation GROW Project involving the separation of associated stormwater and sanitary sewers (collectively the “Project”); and
WHEREAS, in the judgment of the Borough’s engineers and other representatives, and in connection with other property that has been or will be acquired, the Borough requires permanent and temporary real estate interests in and to the Subject Property for the purpose of constructing infrastructure to address combined sewer overflows pursuant to the Project; and
WHEREAS, the Pennsylvania Eminent Domain Code, 26 Pa.C.S. § 206, requires the Borough to obtain approval from the City of Pittsburgh via resolution in order to obtain necessary real property interests in the Subject Parcel by eminent domain; and
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh approves of the Borough’s pursuit of the Project and the necessary taking of real property interests from the Subject Parcel.
WHEREAS, there will be no cost to the City of Pittsburgh in conjunction with the Borough’s pursuit of the Project and the condemnation of the real property interests from the Subject Parcel.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The City of Pittsburgh, pursuant to Section 206 of the Pennsylvania Eminent Domain Code, 26 Pa.C.S. § 206, hereby authorizes the Borough of Crafton to take, by eminent domain, certain permanent and temporary real estate interests in a portion of that certain parcel of real estate, identified by the Allegheny County Assessment Office as Block and Lot No. 39-F-280, located within the boundaries of the City of Pittsburgh
Exhibit A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION AND PLAN OF THE CONDEMNATION