Fiscal Note
Funding for this project is contained within the 2013 Parks Capital Budget, Project No. 22 "Highland Manor Storm Shelter". Total funding of $1,525,000 includes federal grant funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency ($1,375,000) and General Obligation debt ($150,000).
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Authorizing City officials and staff to enter into, accept and execute any and all documents needed to convert the existing unopened South Side Way (f.n.a. Raywood Road) right-of-way into developable park land to allow for the construction of a FEMA supported emergency weather event safe room within the Highland Manor manufactured home community.
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WHEREAS, the Highland Manor Manufactured Home Community (“Highland Manor”), located at 1501-1515 Moorland Rd. in the City of Madison has 361 improved sites, approximately 243 of which were occupied as of May, 2012. There are estimated to be approximately 544 City residents currently living in Highland Manor, and the entire property may eventually house around 813 City residents if fully occupied. Highland Manor is currently owned and operated by Highland Manor Associates, Limited Partnership (“HMA”); and,
WHEREAS, Highland Manor was created in 1971 with the recording of Certified Survey Map 668, and included the dedication to the City of a one-hundred and twenty (120) foot wide and roughly sixteen-hundred and seventy (1670) feet long right-of-way through the land to be known as “Raywood Road” (and now known as “South Side Way”), a three-hundred (300) foot wide strip of property along the south border of the land adjacent to Nine Springs Creek that was dedicated to the public for park and greenway purposes (aka “Rustic Park”), and a thirty (30) foot wide easement along the western property line for public sewer purposes and public access to the park. In 1982, the City also obtained a sanitary sewer easement running through Highland Manor to serve the residents of the community as well as properties to the east of Hi...
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