Number
130590
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution authorizing Quit Claim Deed to Wisconsin Department of Transportation, partial release of Sewer Easement SE-226A, and abandonment of facilities in released area, in the 10th Aldermanic District.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes a Quit Claim Deed to the DOT, a partial release of Sewer Easement SE-226A, and abandonment of facilities in the released area, which area is within parts of 7601 W. Adler Street and 601 S. 76th Street, located near the Wisconsin State Fair Park, and under I-94 right-of-way, in the 10th Aldermanic District.
Body
Whereas, The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (“DOT”) is undertaking a highway improvement project, DOT Project I.D. No. 1060-33-24, concerning improvement to and widening of the I-94 freeway, and in conjunction therewith, the DOT has requested that the City of Milwaukee provide a Quit Claim Deed and partially release, in a defined area within the expanded freeway right-of-way, the City’s easement rights arising under a 1934 easement, register of deeds document no. 2013578; and
Whereas, The area where the DOT wants the City to grant the deed and release its easement rights are within parts of each of 7601 W. Adler Street, owned by the Milwaukee County Highway Commission, and 601 S. 76th Street, owned by the State of Wisconsin State Fair Park Board; and
Whereas, Within the targeted release area, the City does have existing storm sewer facilities that are not used and that are not needed, and per the Department of Public Works, to abandon those unneeded facilities, there would be no need to tie-off, sever or cap the abandoned facilities in order to separate them from other storm sewer facilities that the City would continue to own in other parts of the easement area under the 1934 easement that the City would not be releasing; and
Whereas, The City, by its DPW with assistance from the City Attorney’s Office, negotiated the Quit Claim De...
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