6637-91 Declare necessary to construct breakwall

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RESOLUTION NO. 6637-91 BY: Boscia, Gallagher, Gazzana, George, Graham, Roth, Smith AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION declaring it necessary to improve an easement of the City. of Lakewood by constructing thereon a breakwall with concrete modules, fill and-end return. WHEREAS, this Council has had presented to it petitions signed by the owners of at least 60% of the front footage of the property abutting, to be assessed for and to be benefited by the improvement herein described; and WHEREAS, this Council by two-thirds vote of the members elected thereto determines that this resolution is an emergency measure which is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety and for the further reason that the improvement herein provided is immediately necessary to protect the property and health of the residents of the City which is endangered by the continuing erosion of the Lake Erie shoreline which undermines houses, water lines, sanitary sewers and streets; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, State of Ohio, three-fourths of all members elected thereto concurring: Section 1. It is necessary to improve an approximately twenty-foot wide easement of the City of Lakewood with its northern boundary located approximately twenty (20) feet north of the currently existing southerly.' shore of Lake Erie in an area now submerged lands but formerly a part of the lots on the northerly side of Edgewater Drive from the easterly line of property now or formerly owned by the Unit Owners of the Lake House Condominium .as tenants in common, now or formerly known as the Permanent Parcel Nos. listed on Exhibit A attached hereto and on the tax list and maps of Cuyahoga County and assigned as its address 11850 Edgewater Drive, westerly approximately 330 feet to the westerly line of'said property. Section 2. Said easement shall be improved as shown on the plans hereinafter referred to andnow on file in the office of the Director of Public Works by constructing thereon a breakwall with concrete modules, fill and end return. Section 3. It is herebY determined and declared that said improvement is conducive to the public health, convgnienceand welfare of said City and the inhabitants thereof. It is further found and determined that said improvement has been petitioned for by the owners of at least 60% of the front footage of the property abutting said improvement. Section 4. The grade of said easement as improved shall be the grade as shown by the plans and profiles which are made a part hereof. Section 5. The plans, specifications, estimates and profiles of the proposed improvement, heretofore prepared and now on file in the office of the Director of Public Works, are hereby approved.