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27-CV-17-18805 Filed in Fourth Judicial District Cou 12/11/2017 11:46 A Hennepin County,M TO THE DISTRICT COURT ABOVE NAMED: Your petitioner, the County of Hennepin, respectfully states and alleges: That the petitioner is a county organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota; that the County Board of petitioner County is by statute charged with the designation, relocation, construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of the County State Aid Highways/County Roads, within Hennepin County, and that when necessary for the alteration, reconstruction and maintenance of those County State Aid Highways/County Roads, and for the safety of travel thereon, the Hennepin County Board is authorized and empowered to acquire by condemnation all additional lands and rights necessary for such right of way purposes, through proceedings of eminent domain initiated under Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 117. II. That the petitioner applies to the Court for an Order permitting petitioner to pay to the owner or deposit with the Court an amount equal to the petitioner's approved appraisal of value, and vesting title and possession to petitioner of the parcels described in the Notice(s) of Intent to Take Possession, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 117.042. III. That County State Aid Highway 112 between Wolf Pointe Trail and Wayzata Boulevard in the Cities of Long Lake and Orono is land duly within the boundaries of Hennepin County. Iv. That the Hennepin County Board has determined the necessity of reconstruction, alteration, construction, widening, improvement and maintenance on County State Aid Highway 112 as described above, and that the County Board has determined to acquire and take by these proceedings the land and interest in land as hereinafter more particularly described as being necessary to safely use and travel on that/those roads; that the County Board has determined that property rights in the lands hereinafter described be acquired, together with the following rights: To acquire and obtain the exclusive ownership of all the dirt or other material necessarily excavated, removed or taken from said lands, to take and acquire all structures thereon; and all trees, shrubs, grass and herbage now and hereafter growing within the right of way, and to have the exclusive control of the same, and to acquire other rights and/or easements in those cases particularly mentioned herein, in accordance with the resolution adopted by said County Board on September 13, 2011 a certified copy of which is attached and incorporated as Exhibit A.