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Resolution vacating a portion of First Avenue (formerly Greenough Street), a thirty (30) foot right of way, in the 1st Ward, 6th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh.
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WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh, pursuant to Council Resolution 546 of 2020, quitclaimed to the URA property located at located at 661 1st Avenue and 700 Second Avenue designated in the Deed Registry Office of Allegheny County as Block 2-P Lot 110 and Block 2-P Lot 120; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Council Resolution 624 of 2020, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh is authorized to enter into a contract for disposition by Sale of Land with 2P110-Cares, Inc. or a related entity to be formed, for the sale of Lot 1 in the Project Cares Consolidation Plan, currently being a portion of Block 2-P, Lot 110, all of Block 2-P, Lot 120, and a to-be-vacated stretch of old First Avenue adjoining such parcels to the south, in the 1st Ward of the City of Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh is now requesting this vacation of a portion of First Avenue (formerly Greenough Street), a thirty (30) foot right of way, in order to consolidate their property for its authorized disposition contract; and
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh desires to grant this vacation and, in accordance with this overall transaction with the Urban Redevelopment Authority, elects to not condition this vacation on payment of the assessed value for the property.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure is authorized to vacate to the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, the following right- of-way:
All that certain portion of First Avenue, 30.03’ wide, situate in the 1st Ward, City of
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, more particularly bound and described as follows:
Beginning at a point of commencement at the intersection of the northeasterly right of way line of First Avenue and the westerly property line of land now or formerly owned by the City of Pittsburgh as recorded in DBV: 8771 PG 470, Tax ID: 2-P-110; thence from said point of commencement by the northeasterly right of way line of First Avenue S 63° 41’ 17” E a distance of 23.62 feet to a point of beginning on the northeasterly right of way line of First Avenue; thence from said point of beginning by the northeasterly right of way line of First Avenue S 63° 41’ 17” E a distance of 147.33 feet to a point on the northeasterly right of way line of First Avenue; thence by a line through said First Avenue S 26° 09’ 10” W a distance of 30.03 feet to a point on the southwesterly right of way line of First Avenue; thence by the southwesterly right of way line of First Avenue N 63° 41’ 17” W a distance of 148.29 feet to a point on the southwesterly right of way line of First Avenue; thence by a line through said First Avenue N 27° 59’ 40” E a distance of 30.03 feet to a point on the northeasterly right of way line of First Avenue, at the point of beginning.
Containing an area of 4,438 square feet or 0.102 acre.
Section 2. This resolution, however, shall not take effect or be of any force or validity until the Urban Redevelopment Authority presents, to the satisfaction of the Director of Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, certain necessary executed utility easements including those with the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority as more specifically described in the plan attached as Exhibit A.