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Date Application Received: 08/12/2020 Date Application Considered as Complete: Incomplete To: Chair Ressler and Planning Commission Members Dustin Rief, City Administrator From: Laura Oakden, Planner Date: October 19, 2020 Subject: #LA20-000051, NIH Homes, Request for alley vacation, Public Hearing Background Colt Skogquist o/b/o NIH Homes has requested the City vacate a 20-foot unimproved alley that runs through/ abuts 4485, 4465, and 4455 North Shore Drive and a parcel owned by Hennepin County. The alley does not show to have any improvements or city utilities located in the area. The alley was platted in Bergquist’s Addition to Saga Hill (1889) and abuts the Tonkaview Gardens (1921) plat. Applicable Regulations: Sec. 78-9. - Vacation of streets, alleys and public grounds. Vacation of streets, alleys and public grounds shall follow the procedures set forth in this chapter; except that such vacation shall require a petition by a majority of the landowners abutting the property to be vacated, and a hearing preceded by two weeks' published and posted notice, all as required by Minn. Stat. § 412.851. The council may vacate any publicly owned utility easement or boulevard reserve which is not being used for sewer, drainage, electric, telegraph, telephone, gas and steam purposes or for boulevard reserve purposes, in the same manner as vacation proceedings are conducted for streets, alleys and other public ways. A boulevard reserve means an easement established adjacent to a dedicated street for the purpose of establishing open space adjacent to the street and which area is designated on the recorded plat as boulevard reserve. State Statute: 412.851 VACATION OF STREETS. The council may by resolution vacate any street, alley, public grounds, public way, or any part thereof, on its own motion or on petition of a majority of the owners of land abutting on the street, alley, public grounds, public way, or part thereof to be vacated. When there has been no petition, the resolution may be adopted only by a vote of four-fifths of all members of the council. No vacation shall be made unless it appears in the interest of the public to do so after a hearing preceded by two weeks' published and posted notice. Analysis Application Summary: The applicant is requesting the city vacate an unimproved alley. Staff Recommendation: Planning Department Staff supports the request to vacate the unimproved alley. 59 59