Letter from Opus- Vacted LotsOPUS CORPORATION
DES BUILDERS DEVE
Mr. William Craig
City Manager
City of Hopkins
101 South First Street
Hopkins, Minn. 55343
Re: Ordinance No. 82 -517
Dear Mr. Craig:
This letter is written in connection with the letter sent to you by Robert
A. Worthington, our Director of Planning and Governmental Affairs, on
October 4, 1983, wherein he asked that the captioned Ordinance of the Hop-
kins City Council be amended with respect to the legal description contained
in Section 2 thereof. This amendment is necessary because Section 2 purports
to vacate the platted lots contained in Blocks 1 and 2 in the Plat of Davison's
Addition to West Minneapolis, which action is beyond the scope of authority
of the City Council of Hopkins. Minnesota Statutes, Section 505.14, estab-
lishes the procedure for vacating a recorded plat, and said Section 505.14
vests the authority to order such vacation specifically and solely in the
District Court of the State of Minnesota which has jurisdiction over the real
property which has been so platted. Accordingly, Ordinance 82 -517 needs to
be amended at said Section 2 so that only the alleys and streets previously
described therein are the subjects of this vacation action by the City of
Hopkins.
For your information, Opus Corporation, on behalf of the fee owner of the
subject property, is in the process of bringing an action In Proceedings
Subsequent before the Examiner of Titles, sitting as Referee for the Henne-
pin County District Court, for the purpose of obtaining the Order required
by said Section 505.14. We will then file a certified copy of that Order_
with the Hennepin County Auditor and record the same with the Hennepin
County Recorder and Hennepin County Registrar of Titles, all as is provided
for in said Statute, and then we will be in a position to file the final
Plat of Opus 2 Ninth Addition for public record.
If I can provide you with any additional information which will assist you
in carrying out the action requested in Mr. Worthington's letter to you of
October 4, please do not hesitate to contact me at 936 -4490.
MLK /ia
cc: Mr. Robert Worthington
October 7, 1983
Yours very truly,
Marc L. Kruger
Att rney
MINNEAPOLIS CHICAGO PHOENIX MILWAUKEE
EXECUTIVE OFFICES 900 OPUS CENTER 9900 BREN ROAD EAST PO BOX 150 MINNEAPOL6 MNMIESOTA SS440 1612) 936 1444
(Official 1 abtta(I.ai
CITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPiN COUNTY.
MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE MO. 11417
AN RDINANCE AMENDING
THAT PART OF HOPKiNS ZONING
RDINANCE NO. 417 PERTAINING
TO AHD CNANGING THE ZONING
OF THE EAST HALF or THE
SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF
SECTION U. TO WNSHIP 117.
RANGE rx. AND LOTS 1.3.
INCLUSIVE or BLOCKS 1 AND 1.
DAVISON'S ADDITION TO WEST
MINNEAPOLIS AND ALSO A
PORTION OF THE NORTH HALF
OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER
OF SECTION U. TOWNSHIP 117.
RANGE tl; AND ALSO VACATING
PLAT. STREETS. AND ALLEYS
THEREIN
BE IT ORDAINED by the City
Council .f the City of Hopkins as
follows: That Hopkins Zonis Or-
dinance No. 4271. hereby amended as
follows:
SECTION 1: That the present pro-
visions regarding the soma/ Uses for
the following promises are hereby
repealed and there Is hereby enacted
and adopted is lieu thereof the follow-
ing zoning uses le sald locstles.:
a. East half of the Southwest Quar-
ter of the Southweat,Quarter of
Section 23. Township 117.1tange
22; sad all of Lets 1 to 30 In-
clusive. Bleek 1. and Lwts 1 Vs 30
Inclusive. Bleck 2. Davison'{ Ad-
ditloa to West Minnespolls In-
cluding the vacated alleys and
12th and 13th Aveeula lo said
Weck are hereby rezoned from
Rd th 11.4 P.U.D. (Pleased Ualt
Development uses.
b. That part of the North half of the
Northwest Quarter of Section 10.
Township 117. Range 11. de-
scribed as follows: Commencing
at a point In the South line of said
North half distant 1214.3 feet
West of the Southeast comer of
said North half; thence at right
angles North distance of 2o0
feet; thence at right eagles Wed
to the center line of eenepla
County State Aid Highway He.
le: .thence .Northerly along the
tenter lino of said Hennepin
County State Aid Highway No.ls
to the North Rae et said Settioe
If; thence East aloag avid North
.ectlea line tr a. potat which lay
determined; by the extension
Northerly of die Westerly bound-
ary line o6 VapBurea Avenue:
thence Southwestedy along said
extension line.if VsaBuren Ave-
nue and of the Westerly line of
VaoBuren Abenuoi.te. Its ex-
tension with the South line of said
North .half of the-►Northwe.t
Quarter;. thence West•plong said
South line el said North half of
the' Northwest Quarter' lo the
potat of .beginning. are .hereby
rezoned from.B -.l to R -2 uses.
SECTION t:?That .Blocks 1 and 2.
Devisee's 'Addition te.West Minim.
spells Including the- alleys. la said
Blocks and lndudiag that part of 12th
and Avenues .aid plat wkleh
Ile between the.aeyth.11ondary Inc I of
loth, Street .Soytk, and the north
boundary line .(.11th.SFreet South In
said Davisoa.s Addition are hereby
vacated.
'SECTION 2: the presently
existing Hopkins Zoning map adopted
as part of Hopkins Zoning Ordinance
No.: 427 ic hereby. moulded and
changed In ,accordancc•tiwlth the
above previsions.
First read ak at regular meeting of
the City Council gibe City of Hopkins
held Augusri 1162. andlinaily read.
approved. adopted and ordered pub-
lished at a special meeting of said
Council of said City on August 31.
15412.