For many months VDOT has claimed that there wouldn't be any permanent easements required in McIntire Park and the construction of McIntire Road Extended through the park could be completed using only temporary easements. But, a request for a permanent easement of a bit more than one acre was submitted to the City of Charlottesville by the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) to carry out their utility work associated with the road construction. This is another change request associated with this project. Here is a copy of the RWSA request with the graphic showing what land is requested to be deeded to RWSA as a "perpetual right of way and easement". City Council may need a super-majority (4-1) vote to grant this easement. With previous McIntire Road Extended votes by council only being passed by a 3-2 vote it will be interesting to see what happens if in fact council is requested to consider granting a permanent easement in McIntire Park.
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Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority
695 Moores Creek Lane
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
City of Charlottesville Tax Map and Parcel Numbers 450001000, 460001200, 460003000
Albemarle County Tax Map and Parcel Number 06100-00-00-193A0
This DEED OF EASEMENT, made this 3rd day of November, 2008, by and between the CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, a municipal corporation, Grantor ("Property Owner"), and RIVANNA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY, a body politic and corporate created pursuant to the Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Act, whose address is 695 Moores Creek Lane, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902, Grantee (the "Authority").
WHEREAS, the Property Owner has agreed to grant the Authority the easement shown anddescribed on the plans for State Highway Project U000-104-l02, RW-20l, Parcels 001 and004, Sheets 4 and 5, attached hereto and recorded herewith (the "Plat"); and
WHEREAS, as shown on the Plat, the proposed easement crosses a portion of the property conveyed to Property Owner by deeds recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Charlottesville in Deed Book 162, page 296, and Deed Book 338, page 530, and by deeds recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Albemarle County in Deed Book 192, pages 15 and 18, and Deed Book 526, page 238, and Property Owner is the fee simple owner of the said property as of the date hereof.
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the sum of ONE DOLLAR ($1.00) and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, Property Owner does hereby GRANT and CONVEY with GENERAL WARRANTY of TITLE unto the Authority a perpetual right of way and easement to construct, install, operate, maintain, repair, replace, relocate and extend a sewer line consisting of pipes, equipment, and appurtenances to such pipes and equipment, over, under and across the real property of Property Owner located in the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, and the County of Albemarle, Virginia, and to access any other adjacent easement held by the Authority, the location and width of the easement hereby granted and the boundaries of the property being more particularly described and shown on the Plat as Sanitary Sewer Easement (the "Sewer Easement"). Reference is made to the Plat for the exact location and dimension of the Sewer Easement hereby granted and the property over which the same crosses.
Easement Obstructions
Property owner, its successors or assigns, agree that trees, shrubs, fences, buildings, overhangs or other improvements or obstructions shall not be located within the Sewer Easement. The Sewer Easement shall include the right of the Authority to cut any trees, brush and shrubbery, remove obstructions and take other similar action reasonably necessary to provide economical and safe sewer line installation, operation and maintenance. The Authority shall have no responsibility to Property Owner, its successors or assigns, to replace or reimburse the cost of trees, brush, shrubbery, or other obstructions located in the Sewer Easement if cut or removed or otherwise damaged.
Easement Access and Maintenance
As part of the Sewer Easement the Authority shall have the right to enter upon the above-described property within the Sewer Easement for the purpose of installing, constructing, operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing, relocating and extending the above-described sewer line and appurtenances thereto, within the Sewer Easement; and in addition, the Authority shall have the right of ingress and egress thereto as reasonably necessary to construct, install, operate, maintain, repair, replace, relocate and extend such sewer lines. If the Authority is unable to reasonably exercise the right of ingress and egress over the right-of-way, the Authority shall have the right of ingress and egress over the property of Property Owner adjacent to the right-of-way, and shall restore surface conditions of such property adjacent to the right-of-way as nearly as practical to the same condition as prior to the Authority's exercise of such right.
Whenever it is necessary to excavate earth within the Sewer Easement, the Authority agrees to backfill such excavation in a proper and workmanlike manner so as to restore surface conditions as nearly as practical to the same condition as prior to excavation, including restoration of such paved surfaces as maybe damaged or disturbed as part of such excavation.
The facilities constructed within the Sewer Easement shall be the property of the Authority, its successors and assigns, which shall have the right to inspect, rebuild, remove, repair, improve and make such changes, alterations and connections to or extensions of its facilities within the boundaries of the Sewer Easement as are consistent with the purposes expressed herein.
NOTE: The graphic display shows the attached Sheets 4 and 5 combined for easier reading. The area marked in yellow is the proposed permanent easement area requested by RWSA. The area requested appears to be greater than one acre.
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