HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-12-12 48 AF RESOLVE48 AF
IntvNviced by Cwmilor McKernan, December 12, 1977
CITY OF BANGOR
(TITEEJC$OIbCt_.Rolution of Condemnation for 185 Hancock Street
..._. ..es.................-._............_:
owned by Harold A. Baron.
By Ns Cite Cwmil o(Ne IXty ml8capmr:
RSSOm. THAT. the City of Bangor acquire.' by Eminent Domain
pursuant to its duly adopted Community Development Program, property
owned by Harold A. Baron and designated as Parcel 15-7, located at
185 Hancock Street, Bangor, Maine and described as follows:
First Parcel: A certain lot of land, together with the buildings
thereon, bounded and described as follows: Beginning on the southerly
line of Hancock Street in said Bangor at the corner of an eight (8)
westerly at right an lea fifty-five (55) feet; thence northerly at
right angles sixty (60) feet; thence easterly fifty-five (55) feet
to the paint begun at, together with all the right, title and interest
which David P. Striar may have had at the time of his death in and
to the eight (8) foot passageway above mentioned: ALSO a strip of
land just westerly of and adjacent to the lot first above described
with a frontage of five and one-half (5 112) feet on said Hancock
Street and extending back an even width1 hty-eight (88) feet eight
(8) inches to land formerly of Patrick Wall, subject, however, to the
right of Sam Taines, his heirs and assigns, to use said five and one-
half (5 1(2) foot strip in common as a way on foot and with teams and
for laying water, gas and sewage pipes in connection with the occupa-
tion by said David P. Striar, or his successor or successors in title,
of the land partitioned between said David P. Striar and said Sam
Taines by deed dated duly 21, 1907, recorded in the Registry of Deeds
for said County of Penobscot in Volume 770, Pages 426 and 427, and
of any land that either of them thereafter acquired in the rear of
said partitioned land and adjacent thereto: ALSO an easement for
all purposes above named in a strip of land of like width and length
with the foregoing strip and just westerly thereof and adjacent thereto;
the premises above described being subject, however, to an easement of
light and air, for the benefit of the land conveyed as aforesaid by
said Striar to said Taines in making said partition, such that n
building shall be erected on the front of the premises conveyed by
said Taines to said David P. Striar, pursuant to said partition, next
IN CITY CWXIL
cecem er 12, 1977
Consider Tavuary 9, 1978.
CI1T CL
wm�
ERK
3MHITY COONCIL
Samary 9,"1978
e
c'm C' RIS
4&I'Ae
R E S 0 L V E
Solution Of condE011mum fox 185
mock Street vaned O Harold A. BaiOn
CI�Y ".CR
COY :L :ICE
977 DEC 8 PM 1105
to Hancock Street, with its westerly wall any nearer to the land
conveyed by said David P. Striar to said Sam Taines aforesaid, then
the westerly wall of the house, existing at the date of the partition,
upon the premises set off by said partition deed to said Striar,
provided, however, that an outside stairway and shed thereunder may
be maintained as existing on the date: of said partition, and may be
removed when necessary, and said stairway may be extended higher to
upper stories of the then existing or succeeding structure, but of
no greater width, and may so remain, although they encroach a few
inches on the eleven (11) foot way made up of the two five and one-
half (5.1j2) foot strips above mentioned. _
Second Parcel: Another certain lot of land situated in said Bangor
tieing lot number C, according to a plan entitled as follows: "Plan
showing land on Washington Street surveyed for A. H. Thaxter August
1896". by P. H. Coombs, Civil Engineer, said plan being recorded
in the said Registry of Deeds on February 23, 1910, 1n Plan Book 7,
Page 53, the second parcel being all and the same premises conveyed
by Bacon & Robinson Wood Company to said David P. Striar by deed
dated December 24, 1915, recorded 1n said Registry in Book 879,
Page 317.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Bangor
that, in accordance with independent appraisal of value of the above
described property, the amount of damages determined to be just com-
pensation for the acquisition of the fee simple interest in the above
described property is $22,000.00.
STATEMENT OF FACT: 30 M.R.S.A. 54854 authorizes municipalities to
acquire by eminent domain, property in designated slum or blighted
areas. In order to exercise this power, the City Council must first
adopt a "Resolution of Condemnation" to be served upon the property
owner Csl'. After service is completed the Resolution is resubmitted
to the City Council for its approval or disapproval. If the Resolu-
tion is approved, the City Council shall cause an action to be
commenced in the Superior Court..