Placement: Resolutions
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Resolution 23-R49, Authorizing the Acceptance of an Access, Drainage, and Water Management Easement from Martin Memorial Medical Center, Inc.
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Submitted By: Clyde Cuffy, P.E. - Public Works
Strategic Plan Link: The City’s Mission to be responsive to our community.
Summary Brief (Agreements/Contracts only)
1. Prepared by: Southern Grove Community Development District No 1.
2. Parties: City of Port St. Lucie , Martin Memorial Medical Center, Inc., and Southern Grove Community Development District No. 1.
3. Purpose: For access to, and/or maintenance of the City’s drainage and related water management facilities.
4. New/Renewal/Modified: New
5. Duration: Perpetuity
6. Benefits to Port St. Lucie: Allows provision for the City’s roadway drainage to continue to flow through a closed piped system within the Water Management Tract owned by Martin Memorial Center, Inc.
7. Cost to Port St. Lucie (Annual and Potential): There will be no cost to the City.
Presentation Information: Staff will be available to answer any questions.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council approve the Resolution authorizing acceptance of the Access, Drainage, and Water Management Easement.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and approve the resolution.
2. Move that the Council not approve the resolution and provide staff direction.
Background: Horizon Acquisitions St. Lucie, LLC conveyed a Flowage Easement to the City of Port St. Lucie as depicted on the easement recorded in O.R. Book 2902, Page 1177, and on Water Management Tract (WMT-1) of the Southern Grove Plat No. 9, recorded in Plat Book 68, Page 16, Public Records of St. Lucie County, Florida. WMT-1 was conveyed to Tradition Land Company, LLC, via Quit Claim Deed, recorded in O.R. Book 3552, Page 1194, then conveyed to Mattamy Palm Beach, LLC via Quit Claim Deed, recorded in O.R. Book 4153, Page 1012, then conveyed to Martin Memorial Medical Center, Inc, via Special Warranty Deed, recorded in O.R. Book 4593, Page 2721, Public Records of St. Lucie County, Florida. The owner of the property has submitted a request for the abandonment of said Flowage Easement to the City and has provided a replacement Access, Drainage, and Water Management Easement.
Issues/Analysis: The Access, Drainage, and Water Management Easement was evaluated by the Public Works Department and City Attorney’s Office. The City Departments have no objection to the acceptance of the easement.
Financial Information: There will be no cost incurred by the City.
Special Consideration: N/A
Location of Project: Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital
Attachments:
1. Resolution
2. Exhibit A to the Resolution - Access, Drainage, and Water Management Easement
3. Location Map
NOTE: All of the listed items in the “Attachment” section above are in the custody of the City Clerk. Any item(s) not provided in City Council packets are available upon request from the City Clerk.
Internal Reference Number: 9776
Legal Sufficiency Review:
Reviewed by Elizabeth L. Hertz, Senior Deputy City Attorney. Approved as to Legal form and sufficiency by James D. Stokes, City Attorney.