2024-102 Ordinance Vacating Public Right-of-Way -800 Block of East Sangamon Street

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ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MEMORANDUM No. 24-15 June 28, 2024 TO: Honorable Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe and City Council FROM: Tim Gleason, City Manager Cordaryl"Pat"Patrick,Director of Economic &Community Development SUBJECT: Public right—of—way vacation of the 800 Block of East Sangamon Street SUMMARY RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the ROW vacation with the following conditions: 1. A blanket easement for the vacated East Sangamon Street right-of-way shall be maintained for all utilities located within the right-of-way, including but not limited to the City's utilities. The City Plan Commission voted 5-0 to recommend approval of the petition at the June 6, 2024 meeting. The minutes of the meeting are attached. BACKGROUND: The City is supportive of this vacation as it will facilitate economic development and a controlled campus for TCCA - Tillamook. Mervis Recycling currently owns this property and is requesting this vacation for the benefit of the TCCA—Tillamook development. More importantly this vacation is being done to prevent an improved ROW from becoming disconnected from other public ROWs. This section of the ROW would serve no public benefit beyond the public utilities that may run through it. The subject right-of-way is no longer necessary to serve the general public,and really has become a site with repeated illegal dumping and nuisance behaviors. The best interests of the City of Decatur would be served by approving the proposed right-of-way vacation to eliminate this liability from the City's public road inventory. Per Paragraph 2.2.2 of the Administrative Policy& Procedure Manual: Utility Easements and R- OW Vacations; (effective September 1, 1997),"All property owners with land abutting a piece of property which is under consideration for vacation shall be served proper notice prior to City Council action on the request." Staff have sent out notification letters to the abutting property owners. Advantage Automation Midwest (AAM) and Mervis Recycling have agreed to an ingress/egress access easement on Mervis's parcel to allow for the circulation of the AAM's semi-trucks. The Plat of Easement is currently being produced for recording with Macon County. In accordance with Paragraph 2.2.3 of the same manual, "Compensation shall be required, based upon an approved recent appraisal at the expense of the petitioner, whenever land comes out of