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Date Application Received: 08/12/2020 �.O rO <br /> Date Application Considered as Complete: Incomplete V <br /> A <br /> To: Chair Ressler and Planning Commission Members I <br /> Dustin Rief, City Administrator �lkFSHov-f. <br /> G <br /> From: Laura Oakden, Planner <br /> Date: October 19, 2020 <br /> Subject: #LA20-000051, NIH Homes, Request for alley vacation, Public Hearing <br /> Application Summary: The applicant is requesting the city vacate an unimproved alley. <br /> Staff Recommendation: Planning Department Staff supports the request to vacate the <br /> unimproved alley. <br /> Background <br /> Colt Skogquist o/b/o NIH Homes has requested the City vacate a 20-foot unimproved alley that <br /> runs through/abuts 4485, 4465, and 4455 North Shore Drive and a parcel owned by Hennepin <br /> County. The alley does not show to have any improvements or city utilities located in the area. <br /> The alley was platted in Bergquist's Addition to Saga Hill (1889) and abuts the Tonkaview <br /> Gardens (1921) plat. <br /> Applicable Regulations: <br /> Sec. 78-9. -Vacation of streets,alleys and public grounds. <br /> Vacation of streets, alleys and public grounds shall follow the procedures set forth in this <br /> chapter; except that such vacation shall require a petition by a majority of the landowners <br /> abutting the property to be vacated, and a hearing preceded by two weeks' published and <br /> posted notice, all as required by Minn. Stat. §412.851. The council may vacate any publicly <br /> owned utility easement or boulevard reserve which is not being used for sewer, drainage, <br /> electric, telegraph, telephone, gas and steam purposes or for boulevard reserve purposes, in <br /> the same manner as vacation proceedings are conducted for streets, alleys and other public <br /> ways. A boulevard reserve means an easement established adjacent to a dedicated street for <br /> the purpose of establishing open space adjacent to the street and which area is designated on <br /> the recorded plat as boulevard reserve. <br /> State Statute:412.851 VACATION OF STREETS. <br /> The council may by resolution vacate any street, alley, public grounds, public way, or any <br /> part thereof, on its own motion or on petition of a majority of the owners of land abutting <br /> on the street, alley, public grounds, public way, or part thereof to be vacated. When there <br /> has been no petition,the resolution may be adopted only by a vote of four-fifths of all <br /> members of the council. No vacation shall be made unless it appears in the interest of the <br /> public to do so after a hearing preceded by two weeks' published and posted notice. <br /> Analysis <br />