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Resolution amending Resolution number 763 of 2019, entitled "Resolution taking, appropriating and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for roadway purposes certain property in the 26th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by Cessy Portuguez and known as 45 Semicir Street, authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition and relocation costs related thereto" to amend the chargeable account to reflect the 2020 operating budget.
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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.
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.
WHEREAS, landslides on the property known as 45 Semicir Street endanger the stability of Semicir Street and other public assets.
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh deems it proper and expedient to exercise the power of eminent domain invested in it for the acquisition 45 Semicir 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 Semicir Street.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
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Resolution 763 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows:
45 Semicir Street, Block 115-H, Lot No. 323 (115-H-323), in the 26th Ward of the City Pittsburgh owned by Cessy Portuguez shall be and the same is hereby taken in fee simple for public roadway purposes, said property being more fully described as follows:
ALL those certain lots or pieces of ground situate in the 26th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, being Lots Nos. 4, 5, and 6, in the E. C. Kreiling Plan of Lots as recorded in the Recorder's Office of said County in Plan Book Volume 9, pages...
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