2003-386RESOLUTION NO. 2003-386
A Resolution authorizing the City Manager to acquire by purchase real property located at 2101
Beloit Avenue for the Janesville Transportation Improvements Project.
WHEREAS, the Janesville City Council has previously approved the right-of-way plat for the Janesville
Transportation Improvements Project and has authorized the City Manager to file a Relocation Order with
the Register of Deeds for Rock County, Wisconsin for Transportation purposes in accord with this project;
and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the City of Janesville to acquire various land and land interests for the
Janesville Transportation Improvements Project, City of Janesville, Rock County, Project I.D. 5990-03-52,
as approved by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation; and
WHEREAS, Gary L. Ackerman and Robert H. Ackerman own the real property located at 2101 Beloit
Avenue, Janesville, WI, which is on the selected route for this transportation project as previously
approved by the Janesville City Council in Resolution No. 2001-171 approved and adopted on the 25th
day of June, 2001; and
WHEREAS, The City Administration has negotiated an offer to purchase 0.05 acres of land, rights of
vehicular access, and a Temporary Interest to grade slopes and driveways on 0.10 acres, as shown in
attached Exhibit A, contingent upon Common Council approval as the means to acquire the Ackerman
property in the amount of Eleven Thousand Eight Hundred and no/Dollars ($11,800.00); and
WHEREAS, the acquisition, plan and use(s) were ~roperly reviewed and approved by the Janesville Plan
Commission after public hearing thereon on the 15 h day of October, 2001, but without review, comment
or recommendation concerning the financial aspects of this transaction; and
WHEREAS, acquiring this property for such public transportation and related purposes is authorized by
Section 62.22 and other related provisions of the Wisconsin Statutes, and it is in the best interest of the
City and of benefit to the Community.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Janesville that they
hereby authorize and direct the City Manager and/or his designees to purchase and acquire said property
from the owners, Gary L. Ackerman and Robert H. Ackerman, in accord with the plan, offer to purchase
and public purposes; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager and his designee(s) may, from time to time,
negotiate, draft, amend, execute and enter into such contracts, documents, and agreements and take
such other actions as the City Manager and/or his designees may deem necessary or desirable to
effectuate the intent of this resolution.
ADOPTED: July 14, 2003
APPROVJ~: /'}~ .
C~n E. Sheiffer, C~y Manage/
ATTEST:
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Proposed by: City Administration
Prepared by: Community Development Planner
MOTION BY: DeGarmo
SECOND BY: Addle
COUNCILMEMBER AYE NAY PASS ABSENT
ADDLE X
MURPHY X
DEGARMO X
STEEBER X
WILLIAMS X
BRIEN X
WELLNITZ X
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
Fee Title in and to the following tract of land in Rock County, State of Wisconsin,
described as follows:
That part of the Southwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 and the Northwest 1/4 of the
Southwest 1/4 of Section 7, in Town 2 North, Range 13 East, in the City of Janesville,
County of Rock, State of Wisconsin, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the West 1/4 corner of said Section 7; thence North 00029'28'' West,
226.31 feet along the West line of the Northwest 1/4 of said Section 7 to the owners
North property line; thence South 38°04'28'' East, 73.78 feet along said North line; thence
South 00029'28'' East, 168.40 feet; thence South 00°26'41" East, 99.14 feet to the South
line of the parcel being described; thence along said South line, South 89°33'19'' West,
45.00 feet to the West line of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 7; thence North 00°26'41"
West, 99.66 feet along said West line of said section to the point of beginning.
Also that part of Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 870489, recorded in Volume 7,
Page 15, as Document No. 870489, being part of the Northwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4
of Section 7, in Town 2 North, Range 13 East, in the City of Janesville, County of Rock,
State of Wisconsin, bounded and described as follows:
The Westerly 5.00 feet of said Lot 1 as measured at right angles from the West
property line of said Lot 1.
These parcels contain 0.28 acres of land already in use for highway purposes and
0.05 acres of additional land.
Also, all existing, future, or potential common law or statutory easements or rights
of vehicular access between the right-of-way of the highway, currently designated as
Beloit Avenue, and all of the abutting remaining real property of the owner, whether
acquired by separate conveyance or otherwise, where the remaining real property of the
owner abuts Beloit Avenue.
Except the right of access to the Beloit Avenue, from said abutting real estate by
means of one access point located within the Northerly 40.00 feet of the Southerly 67.36
feet of the Southwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of said Section 7.
Also, a Temporary Interest for the right to grade slopes and a driveway, including
for such purposes the right to operate the necessary equipment thereon and the right of
ingress and egress as long as required for such public purposes, including the right to
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preserve, protect, remove or plant thereon any vegetation that the highway authorities
may deem necessary or desirable, in and to the following tract of land in Rock County,
State of Wisconsin, bounded and described as follows:
The Westerly 10.00 feet of the owners remaining land, abutting the Easterly right of
way line of Beloit Avenue, as measured at right angles from said right of way line.
This parcel contains 0.10 acres, more or less.
The above temporary interest is to terminate upon the completion of this project or
on the day the highway is open to the traveling public, whichever is later.
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