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RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN AGREEMENT WITH ST. LOUIS COUNTY FOR THE FREE CONVEYANCE OF TAX-FORFEITED PARCELS PURSUANT TO MINN. STAT. ? 282.01, SUBD. 1(e)(a) AND REDUCED COST PURCHASE OF TAX-FORFEITED PARCELS PURSUANT TO MINN. STAT. ? 282.01, SUBD. 1(a)(h).
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CITY PROPOSAL:
RESOLVED, that the proper city officials are hereby authorized to enter into an agreement, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit 1, with St. Louis County for the free conveyance of tax-forfeited parcels pursuant to Minn. Stat. ? 282.01, Subd. 1(e)(a) and the reduced cost purchase of tax-forfeited parcels pursuant to Minn. Stat. ? 282.01, Subd. 1(a)(h).
Statement of Purpose
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The Imagine Duluth 2035 Comprehensive Plan Open Space chapter calls upon the City to acquire and permanently protect county-administered tax forfeit properties that have significant ecological, recreational, and/or storm water management value.
This resolution authorizes an agreement with St. Louis County that establishes the process by which the County and the City of Duluth will negotiate and transact the free conveyance and reduced cost sale of a set of tax-forfeited open space parcels to the City of Duluth. The attached agreement describes the provisions, procedures, and timeline for negotiating the substance of that land transaction.
Over the last several years, City and County staff have collaboratively devised processes for conveying these lands to the City on a basis that is consistent with both parties' land use goals, statutory mandates, and resource limitations. A result of that effort is the Strategic Lands Realignment Project - a partnership of the City, the County, the Minnesota Land Trust, and the Conservation Fund.
The Strategic Lands Realignment Project has two phases. In the nearly complete Phase One, the partners worked together to facilitate the donation to the County of approximately $3.9 million of former Potlatch timberland located outside the City...
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