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Vacation/Discontinuance of a portion of Evan Acres Road and a portion of Savannah Road and repealing RES-12-00227.
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WHEREAS, on September 10, 1998 the City of Madison (the "City") and the Ho-Chunk Nation, formerly known as the Wisconsin Winnebago Tribe, (the "Nation") entered into an Intergovernmental Service and Development Agreement (the "IGA") regarding the development of the facility now known as Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison on lands held in trust for the Nation by the United States of America (the "trust parcel"), along with the development of surrounding lands owned by the Nation in fee (the "fee lands"); and,
WHEREAS, the IGA contained numerous recitals and terms relating to the construction of necessary public infrastructure to serve this proposed development; and,
WHEREAS, Section 8 of the IGA required the City to relocate and expand the intersection of Evan Acres Road and Savannah Road on lands dedicated to the City by Nation, which dedications were made by the Nation in Doc. No. 3135154 and which improvements were made by the City in City Contract No. 5078 / Engineering Project No. 53B0037 in 1999; and,
WHEREAS, following the improvement of these right-of-ways, the IGA called for the City to vacate the surplus lands created by the relocation and expansion of the Evan Acres Road and Savannah Road right-of-ways and intersection and assign the property to the abutting land owners; and,
WHEREAS, the Nation has brought it to the attention of various city departments that this street vacation called for by the IGA had never been completed by the City; and,
WHEREAS, the City Engineering Division has determined that the Nation and the City have completed all public street and infrastructure improvements and satisfied all conditions required for the City to move forward with this partial street vacation; and,
WHEREAS, the City previously conditionally vacated these lands in RES-12-00227 (file ID No. 25360, Do...
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