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Resolution authorizing the taking, appropriating and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for the purpose of construction, inspection, maintenance, repair, reconstruction and alteration of underground structure support elements for P.J. McArdle Roadway Viaduct No. 1, an underground structure support easement on a portion of Block & Lot No. 3-K-161 in the 18th Ward owned by Windom Hill Place Limited Partnership and Windom Hill Place Condominium Association, authorizing the execution and filing of a Declaration of Taking and related documents, the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto, and providing for the payment of the cost thereof. (Council District No. 3).
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Whereas, by Resolution No.163, effective April 12, 2008, the Council of the City of Pittsburgh authorized the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into agreements in connection with the rehabilitation of P.J. McArdle Roadway Viaduct No. 1 (the “Viaduct”) in the 18th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; 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 bridges and the piers and abutments therefore; and
Whereas, the City of Pittsburgh requires a real property interest in the nature of an underground structural support easement on a portion of certain property designated as Block & Lot No. 3-K-161 in the 18th Ward located adjacent to the Viaduct on Windom Street and which is owned by Windom Hill Place Limited Partnership, a Pennsylvania limited partnership, and Windom Hill Place Condominium Association, an unincorporated association; and
Whereas, the City of Pittsburgh deems it necessary to exercise the power of eminent domain invested in it to acquire an underground structure support easement on the real estate hereinafter described for the purpose of c...
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