2021-04 - 15700 West Shore Court Submerged Land Lease

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RESOLUTION NO.2021-04 Referred to PWS 1/19/2'1 Du1_lock, Kepple, Li.tten, Ne—Lf BY: 0`.Malley, Rader,- Shad-0-j-.eI A RESOLUTION to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, approving the use of submerged lands for property located at and abutting 15700 West Shore Court, Lakewood, Ohio (a legal description of which is attached hereto as "Exhibit A"), in order to permit the property owners the opportunity to undertake lakeshore protection measures. WHEREAS, property owner, David and Elizabeth Salisbury, has agreed to permit the City of Lakewood to construct Summit Avenue Outfall Rehabilitation and bluff stabilization in Lake Erie at Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; and WHEREAS, as part of the application to lease submerged lands, the parties involved must submit to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources a resolution from Lakewood City Council approving the proposed use of the submerged land; and WHEREAS, as set forth in Section 2.12 of the Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, this Council by a vote of at least two thirds of its members determines that this resolution is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health, and safety and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that this submerged lands lease is necessary for the improvements to be made; now, therefore BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. The City of Lakewood finds and determines that territory being proposed for the lakeshore protection, which is further described in the application for a submerged lands lease, is not necessary or required for the construction, maintenance or operation by the municipal corporation of breakwaters, piers, docks, wharves, bulkheads, connecting waterways, water terminals, facilities and improvements, and marginal highways in the aid of navigation and water commerce, and the land uses specified in the application comply with regulation of permissible land use as determined by the city. Section 2. The Clerk of Council is hereby authorized and directed to certify a copy of this resolution to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Section 3. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this Resolution were passed in open meetings of this Council and that all deliberations of this Council and any of its committees that resulted in such actions were in meetings open to the public and in compliance with legal requirements.