City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2006-0386

• File #: 2006-0386
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 5/9/2006
• In control: Committee on Finance, Law and Purchasing
• Final action: 5/23/2006
• Enactment date: 5/23/2006
• Enactment #: 342
• Effective date: 5/30/2006
• Title: Resolution taking, appropriating and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for the purpose of abating landslides, certain property in the 20th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by Lawrence Miedema, authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto, and designating the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh as the City's acquisition agent, and providing for the payment of the cost thereof. (Council District No. 2). Cost not to exceed $76,000.
• Indexes: URA PROPERTY ACQUISITIONS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/30/2006	1	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
5/23/2006	1	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
5/17/2006	1	Committee on Finance, Law and Purchasing	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
5/9/2006	1	City Council	Read and referred

Presenter
Presented by Mr. Shields

Title
Resolution taking, appropriating and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for the purpose of abating landslides, certain property in the 20th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by Lawrence Miedema, authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto, and designating the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh as the City's acquisition agent, and providing for the payment of the cost thereof. (Council District No. 2). Cost not to exceed $76,000.

Body
Whereas, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in the case of Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. City of Pittsburgh, Civil Action No. 04-1808, issued an order dated August 31, 2005 directing the City of Pittsburgh to undertake necessary and appropriate measures to abate, correct and remedy the continuing landslides at Corfu Street; and

Whereas, 53 P.S. §1081 authorizes all municipal corporations in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to condemn, when deemed necessary, private lands for the construction of slopes and embankments; and

Whereas, the City of Pittsburgh deems it necessary to exercise the power of eminent domain invested in it for the acquisition of the real estate hereinafter described to abate, correct and remedy the landslides;

Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. Block 7-J, Lot No. 36 in the 20th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by Lawrence Miedema, shall be and the same is hereby taken for the public purpose of abating, correcting and remedying continuing landslides at Corfu Street, said property being more fully described as follows:

All those certain lots or pieces of ground situate in the 20th Ward, City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being Lots Numbers 157, 158, 159 and 160 in a plan of lots laid out by Robert Robb (unrecorded) and together bounded an...