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File #: ID 24-354    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Action Item Status: Passed
File created: 2/29/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/21/2024 Final action: 3/21/2024
Title: Approve the Agreement for Purchase and Sale of Real Property and Escrow Instructions to acquire fee interest from a portion of Assessor's Parcel Number 477-040-58 for a total cost of $32,000 for the Southwest Fresno Trail Project. (Council District 3)
Sponsors: Capital Projects Department, Public Works Department
Attachments: 1. 24-354 Purchase and Sale Agreement.pdf, 2. 24-354 Vicinity Map.pdf, 3. 24-354 Location Map.pdf
REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL


FROM: RANDALL W. MORRISON, PE, Director
Capital Projects Department

SCOTT L. MOZIER, PE, Director
Public Works Department

BY: JESUS AVITIA, PE, Assistant Director
Capital Projects Department, Transportation Project Management Division

NANCY BRUNO, Supervising Real Estate Agent
Capital Projects Department, Capital Administration Division

SUBJECT
Title
Approve the Agreement for Purchase and Sale of Real Property and Escrow Instructions to acquire fee interest from a portion of Assessor's Parcel Number 477-040-58 for a total cost of $32,000 for the Southwest Fresno Trail Project. (Council District 3)

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RECOMMENDATIONS

Staff recommends that the City Council approve the Agreement for Purchase and Sale of Real Property and Escrow Instructions to acquire a 0.20-acre (8,778 square feet) portion of a 7.82-acre (340,639 square feet) unimproved parcel, located at 925 West Church Road (Assessor's Parcel Number (APN) 477-040-58), owned by Gerald T. Griffin, for a total amount of $32,000 in monetary consideration to provide the area necessary to construct the Class I Trail along the Fanning Number 76 Ditch alignment for the Southwest Fresno Trail Project, and authorize the Capital Projects Director or his designee to sign all documents necessary to complete the subject acquisition.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The subject acquisition, memorialized in the Agreement for Purchase and Sale of Real Property and Escrow Instructions, will provide the City with fee title ownership, which is necessary to construct the Class I Trail along the Fanning Number 76 Ditch alignment for the Southwest Fresno Trail Project. The Project requires a 0.20-acre (8,778 square feet) portion in fee interest from a 7.82-acre (340,639 square feet) unimproved parcel located at 925 West Church Road (APN 477-040-58), owned by Gerald T. Griffin.

Gerald T. Griffin and the City came to a mutually agreed upon total amount of $32,000 as just compensation for th...

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