HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 070-25 - Resolution - CD2025-0002VAC TD Bulldog Investments
RESOLUTION
Approving Vacation Petition No. CD2025-002VAC by TD Bulldog Investments LLC.,
for the vacation of a 130-foot long Public Right-Of-Way Within Block 6 of A.W.
Kutzky’s Addition.
WHEREAS TD Bulldog Investments LLC requests that the city vacate an existing public
right-of-way; and
WHEREAS Section 17.00 of the City of Rochester Home Rule Charter states that, “the
Common Council may, by resolution adopted by five affirmative votes, vacate any public
street, alley, way, grounds, or easement, or any part thereof, upon its own motion or by
acting upon a petition filed by the owners of at least fifty percent of the lands which abut
the line of the portion of the public street, alley, way, grounds or easement, or parts
thereof, proposed to be vacated”; and
WHEREAS Section 17.00 of the City of Rochester Home Rule Charter further states that
“no vacation shall be made unless the Common Council finds that to do so is in the public
interest”; and
WHEREAS Rochester Community Development filed the petition in their office and, by
publication in the official newspaper at least ten days prior to the public hearing, gave
notice that the petition had been filed, briefly stating its request, and stated that the petition
would be heard and considered by the Common Council on March 17, 2025; and
WHEREAS on the basis of the petition filed, the testimony and evidence presented by
interested parties, and the investigation and consideration of the matter by the Common
Council, it appears that it is in the best interests of the members of the public to vacate
the right-of-way; and
WHEREAS the specific areas in which are to be vacated are provided by the following
legal description and as depicted by the Map attached to this resolution.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Rochester
that the easement described as follows is hereby vacated and abandoned, subject to the
following one condition of approval:
1. Prior to Recordation of the Vacation Resolution, a sanitary sewer utility easement
shall be retained or dedicated via separate agreement.
AREA OF RIGHT-OF-WAY RELEASE
All that part of the public alley as dedicated on the recorded plat of A.W. KUTZKY’S
ADDITION, lying north of Lot 3, Block 6, in said A.W. KUTZKY’S ADDITION, and south
of RHP HOTEL SUBDIVISION, all in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
ALSO:
All that part of the public alley easement as described in Misc. Book X, Page 265, in the
office of the County Recorder, Olmsted County, Minnesota, lying east of the West 50 feet
of Lot 17, Block 6, A.W. KUTZKY’S ADDITION, and south of RHP HOTEL SUBDIVISION,
all in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City has approved Vacation Application No.
CD2025-002VAC.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THIS __________ DAY OF _______________, 2025.
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PRESIDENT OF SAID COMMON COUNCIL
ATTEST: __________________________
CITY CLERK
APPROVED THIS _____ DAY OF ______________________, 2025.
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MAYOR OF SAID CITY
(Seal of the City of
Rochester, Minnesota)