HomeMy WebLinkAbout048 - 04/20/1999 - AUTHORIZING A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT ACROSS MEADOW SPRINGS RANCH TO WILLIAMS COMMUNICATIONS, INC. FO ORDINANCE NO. 48, 1999
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING THE CITY TO GRANT A NON-EXCLUSIVE
EASEMENT ACROSS MEADOW SPRINGS RANCH
TO WILLIAMS COMMUNICATIONS, INC. FOR INSTALLATION
AND MAINTENANCE OF FIBER OPTIC CABLE
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins (the "City") is the owner of the property known as
Meadow Springs Ranch in Latimer County, Colorado ("the Ranch"); and
WHEREAS, the Cities Service Gas Company has acquired a 50-foot wide easement across
the Ranch for installation of a natural gas pipeline recorded in Book 908 at Reception No. 182993,
in the Weld County Clerk and Recorder Office(the "Pipeline Easement"); and
WHEREAS, Williams Communications, Inc. has requested a 10-foot wide non-exclusive
easement(having an area of.51 acres)to be located within the boundaries of the Pipeline Easement,
and subject to the Pipeline Easement, for installation and maintenance of fiber optic cable, which
easement is described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference (the
"Fiber Optic Easement"); and
WHEREAS, the estimated value of the Fiber Optic Easement is $2,254; and
WHEREAS, Section 23-111 of the City Code provides that the City Council is authorized
to sell, convey or otherwise dispose of real property owned by the City, provided the Council first
finds by ordinance that any sale or disposition of real property owned by the City will not materially
impair the viability of the City's utility system as a whole if the property is part of the system, that
it will be for the benefit of the City's citizens, and that the sale is in the best interests of the City of
Fort Collins.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY fHE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the above described sale and conveyance of the Fiber Optic Easement will
not materially impair the viability of the City's utility as a whole,will be for the benefit of the City's
citizens, and it is in the best interests of the City.
Section 2. That the Mayor is authorized to execute such documents of conveyance as are
necessary to convey the Fiber Optic Easement interest to Williams Communications, Inc.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 16th day of
March, A.D. 1999, and to be presented for final passage on the 20ji day of April, A.D. 1999.
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ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 20th day of April, A.D. 1999.
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ATTEST:
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City Clerk
EXHIBIT' "A"
Said right of way and easement herein and hereby granted being ten (10) feet in width throughout
extending on, over and across the below described land, the center line of such right of way and
easement being twenty (20) feet south and parallel to the center line described in Tract 1.
TRACT 1
All those parts, as described below, lying East of Colorado and Southern Railroad and West of
Highway 1-25 in South one half; Southwest Quarter and South one half Southeast Quarter Section
20, Township 12 North, Range 67 West.
Enter Section 20 at a point 395.3 feet South of the West Quarter Corner; thence bearing S
68°06'16"E a distance of 1917.6 feet; thence bearing S 65°22'06"E a distance of 339.1 to the North
line of Southeast Quarter(SE 1/4)Southwest Quarter(S W 1/4)of said Section 20,thence continuing
S 65°22'06"E a distance of 6063 feet;thence bearing N 80°03'45"E a distance of 1103.7 feet;thence
bearing S 67°57'01 "E a distance of 360.5 feet to exit tract at Highway I-25.