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Presented by Mr. Shields
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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 Douglas T. Blair, 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 $240,000.
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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. ยง1081 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-N, Lot No. 238 in the 20th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by Douglas Blair, 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 that certain lot or piece of ground situate in the 20th Ward, City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being part of Lots Nos. 146, 147 and 148 in the Robert Robb Plan of Lots of the John Elliott Track, as of record in the R...
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