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File #: 64770    Version: 1 Name: 12220 - Consent to Occupy Easement
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 3/22/2021 In control: Economic Development Division
On agenda: 4/20/2021 Final action: 4/20/2021
Enactment date: 4/26/2021 Enactment #: RES-21-00281
Title: Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a Consent to Occupy Easement for the benefit of Madison Gas and Electric Company to allow new underground electrical service lateral improvements within an existing Easement for All Public Uses granted to the City, which encumbers the properties located at 6226 N. Highlands Avenue and 1405 E. Skyline Drive. (19th AD)
Sponsors: Keith Furman
Attachments: 1. 12220 Resolution - Exhibit A.pdf, 2. 12220 Resolution - Exhibit B.pdf
Fiscal Note
The City’s Engineering Division has reviewed and approved the proposed Consent to Occupy Easement. No City appropriation is required.
Title
Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a Consent to Occupy Easement for the benefit of Madison Gas and Electric Company to allow new underground electrical service lateral improvements within an existing Easement for All Public Uses granted to the City, which encumbers the properties located at 6226 N. Highlands Avenue and 1405 E. Skyline Drive. (19th AD)
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison (“City”) Plan Commission approved an application for a demolition permit at their meeting on August 26, 2019, for the demolition of an existing single-family residence and the subsequent construction of a new single-family residence at the property located at 6226 N. Highlands Avenue; and

WHEREAS, an underground electrical service lateral is necessary to serve the new single-family residence, and Madison Gas and Electric Company’s (“MG&E”) proposed location for the installation of the new lateral requires the use of a portion of an existing Easement For All Public Uses, which was granted to the City by the plat of Sky View Terrace, recorded in Volume 19 of Plats, Pages 15-16, as Document No. 918879 on May 24, 1956, in the Office of the Dane County Register of Deeds in the City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin (“Easement”); and

WHEREAS, public underground storm sewer improvements are located in portions of the Easement and the Easement is also used as a drainage way to convey public stormwater surface drainage (together, the “Drainage Improvements”); and

WHEREAS, the City will allow MG&E to cross a portion of the Easement and Drainage Improvements to install the new underground electrical service lateral improvements (“Permitted Improvements”) identified on attached Exhibit B, in, on and across a 10-foot-wide strip of land legally described on attached Exhibit A and depicted in attached Exhibit B (“Consent to Occu...

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