25-82 Accept gift of land on St. Charles south of Detroit

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ORDINANCE NO. 25-82 BY: Brown, Chinnock, Gallagher, Graham, McBride, Salmon, Wendling AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor for and on behalf of the City of Lakewood to accept as a gift to the City of Lakewood, a deed for a small parcel of land situated adjacent to the City owned property on St. Charles Avenue south of Detroit Avenue. WHEREAS, Bernard W. Rainer and David R. Bell are the owners of a landlocked parcel of land situated between the metered parking lot on the southeast corner of St. Charles Avenue and Detroit Avenue and Municipal Parking Garage #1 on St. Charles Avenue, and WHEREAS, Mr. Rainer and Mr. Bell have expressed a willingness and desire to transfer said parcel of land to the City of Lakewood as a gift, and WHEREAS, this Council determines that it is in the best interest of the City to accept such parcel of land, and WHEREAS, this ordinance constitutes an emergency measure in that the acceptance of said gift should be consumated at the earliest possi-ble time and for the immediate preservation of the public welfare; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized to accept as a gift to the City of Lakewood, a deed for the following described premises located south of Detroit Avenue between the City's metered parking lot or the southwest corner of St. Charles Avenue and Detroit Avenue and Municipal Parking Garage #1: SITUATED in the City of Lakewood, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio and known as being part of Original Rockport Township Section No. 22, and bounded and described as follows: Begin- ning at the Southwesterly corner of land conveyed to Harry E. Siegel and Joseph B, Bloomfield and also known as the Douglas Industries, Inc., an Ohio Corporation, which point is also 189.96 feet from the southerly line of Detroit Avenue, 76 feet wide, measured along the easterly line of St. Charles Avenue, 60 feet wide, and recorded in Volume 12588, Page 499 of Cuyahoga County Records; thence Easterly along the Southerly line of said parcel of a distance of about 22.83 feet to a point which is the principal place of beginning. Thence Easterly along the said line a distance of about 32.12 feet to the Easterly side of the existing two-story brick building which point is about 5.05 feet Westerly from the Southeasterly corner of said parcel; thence Southerly a distance of about 3 feet; thence Westerly to an angle deflecting to the right a distance of about 32.50 feet to the principal place of beginning, be the same more or less, but subject to all legal highways. Permanent Parcel No. 314-04-059. Section 2. That the Director of Law ~s hereby authorized and directed to cause said quitclaim deed to be filed and recorded for record with the recorder of Deeds and Records of Cuyahoga County. Section 3. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code.