SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: CB 119462

• Record No: CB 119462
• Version: 1
• Council Bill No: CB 119462
• Type: Ordinance (Ord)
• Status: Passed
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 2/25/2019
• Ordinance No: Ord 125779
• Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; declaring certain real property surplus to the needs of the City; authorizing the sale of a portion of City Light Department real property to North Passage LLC; reserving an exclusive easement for electric transmission and distribution line purposes; and accepting payment of fair market value for the portion of the property sold, and deposit of the payment into the City Light Fund.
• Sponsors: Teresa Mosqueda
• Supporting documents: 1. Att 1 - Purchase and Sale Agreement, 2. Summary and Fiscal Note, 3. Summary Att 1 - Map of Property to Be Sold to North Passage LLC, 4. Presentation, 5. Signed Ordinance 125779, 6. Affidavit of Publication

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/1/2019	1	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
3/1/2019	1	Mayor	returned
3/1/2019	1	Mayor	returned unsigned
2/27/2019	1	City Clerk	submitted for Mayor's signature
2/25/2019	1	City Council	passed	Pass
2/21/2019	1	Housing, Health, Energy, and Workers’ Rights Committee	pass	Pass
2/19/2019	1	City Council	referred
2/5/2019	1	Council President's Office	sent for review
1/29/2019	1	City Clerk	sent for review
1/29/2019	1	Mayor	Mayor's leg transmitted to Council

CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; declaring certain real property surplus to the needs of the City; authorizing the sale of a portion of City Light Department real property to North Passage LLC; reserving an exclusive easement for electric transmission and distribution line purposes; and accepting payment of fair market value for the portion of the property sold, and deposit of the payment into the City Light Fund.
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WHEREAS, the City Light Department of The City of Seattle (SCL) owns in fee simple a 30-foot-wide strip of real property in The City of Seattle, Washington, adjacent and contiguous to 509 Northeast Northlake Way and bounded by Northeast Northlake Way on the north, Interstate Highway 5 on the east, and the Lake Washington Ship Canal on the south ("SCL Property"), legally described in Exhibit A of Attachment 1 to this ordinance, which is a portion of SCL's larger electric transmission and distribution corridor servicing SCL's University Substation; and
WHEREAS, the SCL Property is an excess portion of real property left over from the State of Washington's construction of Interstate Highway 5; and
WHEREAS, the State of Washington transferred ownership of the 30-foot strip to The City of Seattle in 1961 via quit claim deed; and
WHEREAS, there has been a building encroaching on a portion of the SCL Property since at least 1957, predating SCL's ownership of the property; and
WHEREAS, North Passage LLC currently owns the building located at 509 Northeast Northlake Way; and
WHEREAS, SCL has been renting the SCL Property to its tenant under a temporary revocable permit since at least 1990 for the existing building, which partially encroaches into the City's property, and for landscaping and parking; and
WHEREAS, the building, parking lot, and landscaping occupy the entirety of the surface of the SCL Property as described above and are directly under SCL's ...