Drafter
Clerk 05/17/2010
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the condemnation of the fee title to an existing road right of way, for public highway purposes, including permanent public access to a regionally significant railroad corridor "railbanked" under the federal Rails to Trails Act, 16 U.S.C. 1247(d), within council district three.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. In 1911, upon petition of Fall City-area property owners, King County Road No. 920, now known as Southeast 39th Place ("SE 39th Place"), was duly established by order of the King County board of commissioners. A record of the road establishment petition and proceedings ("the record") is on file in the map vault maintained by the road services division of the King County department of transportation. A copy of the record is on file with the King County council.
B. The record shows that King County acquired two portions of right of way for SE 39th Place in fee, and acquired a third portion of right of way for SE 39th Place by grant of easement from the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company ("Weyerhaeuser"). Specifically, on November 19, 1911, in a document entitled "Waiver of Damages for Falls City Road" ("the easement"), Weyerhaeuser granted King County an easement for a road generally sixty feet in width, over a route described in the easement and depicted on a survey map entitled "King County Engineer's Office Survey No. 988 C. Ronnei Petition" ("the survey"). A copy of the easement is Attachment A to this ordinance. A reduced-size copy of the survey is Attachment B to this ordinance. A full-size copy of the survey is on file with the King County council.
C. The easement granted by Weyerhaeuser runs over a parcel of land now identified as King County assessor's tax parcel no. 1124079028. The legal description for tax parcel no. 1124079028 is Attachment C to this ordinance.
D. Then and now, SE 39th Place served to connect the main thoroughfare betwee...
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