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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
RESOLUTION 95- 609
RESOLUTION GRANTING A VARIANCE FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 500
OF THE PLYMOUTH CITY CODE, SUBDMSION AND PLATTING OF LAND (95103)
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Plymouth as follows:
WHEREAS, in conjunction with City Project No. 5-11, the City has entered into Purchase
Agreements with Nancy Chalmers Hardenbergh and her children to purchase 17 acres of
property owned by Mrs. Hardenbergh and approximately 6 acres owned by Mrs.
Hardenbergh's children, legally described on the attached Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, as an essential element to the negotiations for the purchase of Nancy Chalmers
Hardenbergh's property, it was agreed that Mrs. Hardenbergh could remain living on that
portion of the property that is her homestead for up to five years and that the City would
purchase the property in two phases. The City would take immediate title to the property
owned by Mrs. Hardenbergh's children and to the property owned by Mrs. Hardenbergh
excluding the portion that includes her home. The City has exclusive right to buy the
remainder of the property (approximately 6.4 acres), including the home, within the next five
years at a price established in the Purchase Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the homestead parcel retained by Mrs. Hardenbergh is less that 10 acres and the
sale of a portion of the property is governed by Minnesota Statutes, Section 462.358,
Subdivisions 4a and 4b, as amended, and is subject to Section 500 of the Plymouth City Code,
Subdivision and Platting of Land, requirhig Planning Commission and City Council approval;
and
WHEREAS, compliance of the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Sections 462.358,
Subdivisions 4a and 4b, as amended, and Plymouth City Code Section 500 will create an
unnecessary hardship upon Nancy Chalmers Hardenbergh.
NOW, THEREFOREBE. IT RESOLVED, that the City Council has reviewed the lot split
created by the two phase purchase of the Nancy Chalmers Hardenbergh property and finds that
it complies with all of the provisions of Section 500 and the City Council grants a variance
from the provisions of Section 500 of the Plymouth City Code, Subdivision and Platting of
Land as is permitted under Subsection 500.43.
Adopted by the City Council on October 24, 1995.
Resolution 95-609
Property legally described as:
West 988.4 feet of South 45 rods of the Northwest quarter of the Northeast quarter.
Section 31, Township 118, Range 22.
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STATE OF bENNES(YTA)
The undersigned, being the duly qualified and appointed City Clerk of the City of
Plymouth, Minnesota, certifies that I compared the foregoing resolution adopted at a
meeting of the Plymouth City Council on , 1995, with the original
thereof on file in my office, and the same is a correct transcription thereof.
WMESS my hand officially as such City Clerk and the Corporate seal of the City this
day of , 1995.
City Clerk