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Resolution authorizing the taking, appropriating, and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for public roadway purposes certain property in the 20th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by John & Gayle Elstner, located along Herndon Street, and authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto, in the amount not to exceed Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00).
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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, the City's Department of Mobility and Infrastructure is performing slope remediation for stabilization around Herndon Street; and
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh deems it proper and expedient to exercise the power of eminent domain for the acquisition of certain property at or around Herndon Street to be used for the express public purpose of protecting and preserving public transportation infrastructure which in this case will involve slope remediation work.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. A certain property in its entirety along Herndon Street, designated by the following Block and Lot numbers: 19-D-3, in the 20th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh owned by John & Gayle Elstner, 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 not to exceed Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00) is hereby authorized and shall be chargeable...
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