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LL1C -RING . Nssoa.NTCs Memo TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members FROM: Lee Elfering, City Engineer DATE: July 18, 2013 RE: Little Canada Road Easements There are several easements that we are in various stages of acquiring along Little Canada Road and a summary of those easements and their purpose is as follows: Electric Service to St. Paul Water Well St. Paul Regional Water Service has been constructing some new wells within their right -of -way through Little Canada over the last few years. One of these wells lies south of Little Canada Road and north of Sextant Avenue. Xcel Energy originally submitted a permit application last year to provide electric service to the well from the overhead lines along LC Road. However this option would have required the addition of another power pole between the old fire hall and the Northeast Residence building. As there was discussion of eliminating the power poles along Little Canada Road we told Xcel to find an underground service option. The most feasible option to eliminate the need for another pole was to provide service from the electric box that feeds the Northeast Residence building. This however required a new public drainage and utility easement across the parking lot, which the City owns, and a small easement from the Northeast Residence property, We have worked with Northeast Residence and they have granted a public drainage and utility easement on their property to allow for the electric service. The attached easement for the City to approve is to dedicate the necessary public drainage and utility easement over the parking lot, which is City property. TAU noatu Sidewalk Easements As we have discussed before, the construction of the sidewalk along Little Canada Road requires some additional sidewalk easements from several properties. Due to the difficulty in obtaining the easements from the properties between the Interstate and the St. John's Church property the sidewalk in that area was deleted from the current project and will be constructed in the future when all the easements are obtained. That decision resulted in only two property owners that were required to grant easements for the first stage of the sidewalk construction; St. John's Church and the Mandler property at the intersection of Edgerton Street and Little Canada Road. We approached the Mandlers with our easement request and two options for purchasing the easement. Option one was for the City to pay for an appraisal of their property and then pay for the easement based on the square foot costs determined by the appraiser. The second option was to pay the owner the cost of the appraisal at this time and then utilize the square foot cost that is determined by the appraisal of another residential property along Little Canada Road. The Mandlers agreed to the granting of the 10062 Flanders Court NE — Blaine, MN 55449 — Ph: (763) 780-0450 Fax (763) 780 -0452 Morro- 071813-CC (Easements) 1