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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: April 11, 2022 Item No.: 10.h Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Authorize Staff to begin Vacation Process for Various Rights-Of-Way within the City of Roseville 1 B ACKGROUND 2 In the past, the City has vacated numerous City rights-of-way for various reasons. Some have been 3 City-led vacations while others have been petitioner-led. Over the past couple of years, staff has 4 been accumulating a list of rights-of-way thatthe City no longer needs for a variety of reasons. 5 Some of these rights-of-way were dedicated to the City for future roadways that were never 6 constructed. Some were partial right-of-way dedications while others were alley dedications. In all 7 the cases, the City has no plans to construct a future roadway. Some of the corridors have utilities or 8 trails within the right-of-way but some sort of easement, which would be more appropriate if a 9 roadway will not be constructed, would be maintained if the right-of-way was vacated. 10 By vacating these rights-of-way, the City will be able to provide the proper maintenance of the 11 corridors and adjacent property owners, in most cases, will have the benefit of having more control 12 of the former right-of-way. This also helps with confusion and disagreements over how the right-of- 13 way area should be maintained in regards to vegetation control and debris management. 14 Attachment A shows the locations of the 29 proposed right-of-way locations within the City. 15 Attachment B is amore detailed exhibit of the specific rights-of-way proposed to be vacated. 16 If Council authorizes staff to begin the vacation process for these locations, staff would first notify 17 adjacent property owners of the City’s intent, collect initial input and any concerns, and then set a 18 public hearing for each of the right-of-way vacations staff feels should be completed after the initial 19 input. The hearings would occur later this summer over a few meetings. Since these would all be 20 City-initiated vacations, a four-fifths vote would be required at that time to complete the vacation of 21 any of these rights-of-way. 22 F INANCIAL I MPACTS 23 Aside from costs related to filing the vacations with Ramsey County and the mailings to notify the 24 residents, there are no direct costs to the City of Roseville to vacate right-of-way corridors. 25 S TAFF R ECOMMENDATION 26 Authorize staff to begin the vacation process for various rights-of-way within the City of Roseville. Page 1 of 2