CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; authorizing the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer to grant a revised easement for access purposes over a portion of the City's fee-owned real property in the vicinity of East Marginal Way South and Duwamish Avenue South to JMDH Real Estate of Seattle, LLC; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
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WHEREAS, the East Marginal Way South Grade Separation Project is part of the Puget Sound Regional Freight Action Strategy (FAST), a multi-agency effort to improve the flow of railway and truck freight in the region; and
WHEREAS, as part of the East Marginal Way Grade Separation Project, the City Light Department was required to relocate certain overhead electric facilities on both City-owned property and on the abutting property of JMDH Real Estate of Seattle, LLC (JMDH) in the vicinity of East Marginal Way South and Duwamish Avenue South; and
WHEREAS, JMDH possessed an existing right of access across City of Seattle property reserved in a Quit Claim Deed recorded under King County Auditor's File No. 3618953; and
WHEREAS, JMDH and the City Light Department agreed to a mutually beneficial exchange of easements to allow the relocation of the City's overhead electric facilities and to allow JMDH to continue to exercise its rights to access its abutting property; and
WHEREAS, JMDH granted an easement to The City of Seattle for relocation of the City's overhead electric facilities on JMDH property under King County Recording No. 20080724000224; and
WHEREAS, in return for JDMH's grant of an easement to relocate the City's electric facilities on JDMH property, the City Light Department recommends that The City of Seattle grant to JDMH a revised access easement across the City's property; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Se...
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