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Kathy Glanzer From: Joel Hanson Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:32 PM To: Qkeis@aol.com); Bill Blesener; John Keis; Michael McGraw; Rick Montour (at work); ShellyBoss; Shellyb@frattalonecompanies.com Cc: Bill Dircks; Lee Elfering; Stephen Grittman; Kathy Glanzer Subject: Rice Street Easements Attachments: RICE EASEMENTS_20090908153226.pdf Ramsey County is moving forward with plans for the reconstruction of the Rice Street Bridge over Highway 36. This project will encompass other improvements along Rice Street from County Road B to B2. As part of this process, the County needs to complete aright-of-way plan. In this case, iwo properties require our involvement. The first parcel is the former Oasis site that is being replatted as part of the Melancon Plat. As you will recall, we have not recorded this plat yet due to a title issue involving MnDot's turnback of Viking Drive to the City back in 1994. The City Attorney has commenced a quiet title action that will take until the end of the year to complete. Ramsey County needs a permanent easement of 624 square feet for the proposed sidewalk (about five feet in width over a good portion of the property -see map attached) and a temporary easement of 1099 square feet. (That goes away when the road project is done.) They could appraise the property and pay us for the easement or we could dedicate it to the County. (If a private property owner were involved, we would likely make them dedicate it to facilitate the sidewalk system.) If we agree to dedicate the easement, we save the project the cost of the appraisals and the easement. We would also need to enter into an agreement to do this to provide the County with evidence of site control by April versus having to pay to redo the plat. The second parcel is the Bakery Outlet. They need about 10 feet off of the west side for sidewalk and additional footage along the south side (62) for sidewalk. Given our commitment to buy the site as part of the St. Jude TIF project, I told the County it would not make sense to commission another appraisal and pay the Bakery Outlet owners money for these easements when we are committed to taking down the site under our development agreement. Two issues arise. The first is we would need to commit to site control by early April if the Bridge project proceeds next year. The second is we would need to donate the easements as indicated on the attached drawing. Given we want sidewalks in this area, it would seem to make sense to donate the easements rather than incurring additional expense for separate appraisals. The County would like to know our position on these two parcels so they can finalize their right-of-way plan. This will be an addition to tomorrow's agenda. JH .;y~; RICE ENTS 2009090815 1