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Resolution taking, appropriating and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for public roadway purposes certain property in the 10th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by Frank and Fiorina Chianelli and/or their estate, located along El Paso Street, and authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto.
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WHEREAS, the Pennsylvania Eminent Domain Code, 26 Pa. C.S. ? 101 et seq., authorizes the City of Pittsburgh to take by eminent domain private property for a public purpose; and
WHEREAS, the Pennsylvania General Municipal Law, 53 P.S. ? 1081, authorizes the City of Pittsburgh to take by eminent domain private property for roadway purposes; and
WHEREAS, landslides along El Paso Street endanger the stability of El Paso Street and other public assets; and
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh deems it proper and expedient to exercise the power of eminent domain invested in it for the acquisition of certain parcels located along El Paso Street in fee simple hereinafter to be used for the express public purpose of mitigating land movement activities and mitigate any further risk to public assets and infrastructure, including El Paso Street.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. Certain property along El Paso Street, designated by the following Block and Lot numbers: 121-J-250, 121-J-251, 121-J-252, 121-J-253, 121-J-254, and 121-J-255, in the 10th Ward of the City Pittsburgh owned by Frank and Fiorina Chianelli and/or their estate, shall be and are hereby taken in fee simple for public safety and public highway purposes.
Section 2. The Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure is hereby authorized to use, occupy, and control the property required.
Section 3. The cost and expense of this condemnation, including but not limited to payment of estimated just compensation, in the amount of Twenty-Six Thousand Dollars ($26,000.00) is hereby auth...
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