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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AN ELECTRIC LINE EASEMENT TO MINNESOTA POWER, A DIVISION OF ALLETE, INC. UPON, OVER, UNDER AND ACROSS REAL PROPERTY IN THE KENWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD FOR NOMINAL CONSIDERATION.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
The city of Duluth does ordain:
Section 1. That the proper city officials are hereby authorized to grant an electrical line easement to Minnesota Power, a division of ALLETE, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, and enter into an easement agreement for the installation, construction, operation, maintenance, inspection, repair, replacement, reconductoring, removal and relocation of electric power lines or cables, together with all structures, poles, towers, structures, crossarms, cables, braces, guy wires, supports, conduits, counterpoises, fixtures, equipment, devices and any other utility related improvements, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit 1, upon, over, under and across the real property described and depicted on Exhibit A to the attached Exhibit 1, for nominal consideration.
Section 2. That this ordinance shall take effect 30 days after its passage and publication.
Statement of Purpose
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: This ordinance authorizes an electrical line easement to Minnesota Power, a division of ALLETE, Inc., a Minnesota corporation ("MP"), for the installation, construction, operation, maintenance, inspection, repair, replacement, reconductoring, removal and relocation of electric power lines or cables, together with all structures, poles, towers, structures, crossarms, cables, braces, guy wires, supports, conduits, counterpoises, fixtures, equipment, devices and any other utility related improvements, upon, over, under and across the real property described and depicted on Exhibit A to the easement agreement, for nominal consideration.
MP has an existing easement for the same purposes over a 130-foot-wide corridor on certain City-owned property. The existing easement area is approximately .22 acres. MP de...
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