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RESOLUTION ACCEPTING PERMANENT EASEMENT FOR PUBLIC RECREATIONAL, WALKWAY, AND TRAIL PURPOSES FROM JAY GILPIN AND STACI GILPIN OVER PROPERTY NEAR CHESTER PARK AT NO COST TO THE CITY.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
RESOLVED, that the proper city officials are hereby authorized to accept a permanent easement for public recreational, walkway, and trail purposes, as more particularly described on the Easement Agreement attached as Exhibit 1, from Jay Gilpin and Staci Gilpin, husband and wife, at no cost to the city, over, upon, across, and along the following described real property:
A ten foot wide easement over under and across all that part of Outlot "A", LAKEVIEW DIVISION FIRST ADDITION, City of Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota centered on the following described line:
Commencing at the most northerly corner of Outlot "A" of said LAKEVIEW DIVISION FIRST ADDITION; thence southeasterly 78.21 feet along said Outlot "A" being a non-tangential curve concave southwesterly having a radius of 100.00 feet, a central angle of 44 degrees 48 minutes 42 seconds and a chord bearing South 37 degrees 51 minutes 01 seconds East, bearings referenced to the St. Louis County Transverse Mercator 1996 coordinate system, to the POINT OF BEGINNING of the centerline to be described; thence South 26 degrees 06 minutes 40 seconds West, a distance of 34.33 feet, thence south 77.15 feet along a non-tangential curve concave westerly having a radius of 103.00 feet and a central angle of 34 degrees 00 minutes 07 seconds; thence South 45 degrees 21 minutes 04 seconds West, a distance of 53.50 feet; thence South 11 degrees 09 minutes 08 seconds West, a distance of 32.50 feet; thence South 28 degrees 36 minutes 36 seconds West, a distance of 115.00 feet; thence southwesterly 15.57 feet along a tangential curve concave northerly having a radius of 10.00 feet and a central angle of 89 degrees 12 minutes 53 seconds to the northwesterly line of said Outlot "A" and said centerline there terminating.
The sidelines of said easement are prolonged or shortened to terminate at the extents of said Outlot "A".
Statement of Purpose
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: This resolution authorizes acceptance of a permanent easement from Jay Gilpin and Staci Gilpin for public recreational, walking, and trail purposes over property near Chester Park. The easement granted is intended to be used for the Duluth Traverse Trail. In consideration of the easement, which comes at no cost to the city, the city agrees to maintain the trail or other improvements within the easement area, as well as provide a reasonable amount of screening and signage to limit use of Jay and Staci Gilpin’s adjacent property.
The Duluth Traverse Trail is a multi-use trail network linking neighborhoods and parks across the entire ridge-line of Duluth from Lester Park in the east to Chambers Grove in the west. Designed for human-powered activities, such as hiking and mountain bicycling, the Traverse Trail is constructed as a single track, natural surface trail approximately forty-eight inches (48”) wide and narrows in time due to intentional vegetation encroachment. Once completed, it will be the first 100-mile trail system of its kind, wholly within an urban environment.