77-2567 CITY OF HOPKINS
Hennepin County, Minnesota
. RESOLUTION NO. 77-2567
RESOLUTION ORDERING ABATEMENT OF NUISANCE BY
REMOVING CERTAIN INFECTED ELM AND/OR OAK TREES
ON/OR IN BLOCK 1, DAVISON'S ADDITION TO WEST
MINNEAPOLIS.
WHEREAS, pursuant to City of Hopkins Ordinance No. 73-382, and pursuant
to M.S.A. Chapter 18, and pursuant to Chapter 4, Rules and Regulations of the
Department of Agriculture (AGR 101-120) , the forester of the City of Hopkins has
found conditions indicating the presence of Dutch Elm or Oak Wilt infestation
exist and have existed upon Block 1, Davison's Addition to West Minneapolis, and
has delivered appropriate specimans or samples thereof to the Commission of
Agriculture for analysis; and,
WHEREAS, such analysis has confirmed the findings of said forester;
and,
WHEREAS, Notice of such findings has been given to the owners of record
of the premises; and,
• WHEREAS, no part of said infected trees has been removed or otherwise
treated.
NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby resolved by the City Council of the City
of Hopkins, as fol lows:
That the premises of said infected trees, which are twenty-one in number
and have been and are duly marked and are located upon Block 1, Davison's Addition
to West Minneapolis, constitute a public nuisance as more fully set forth in the
provisions of Hopkins Ordinance No. 73-382, M.S.A. Chapter 18, and Rules and Regu-
lations of the Department of Agriculture (AGR 101-120) , and such nuisances are
hereby ordered to be immediately abated by the cutting and removal of all such in-
fected trees thereon.
It is further ordered that a Notice of the intention of the Council so
to abate said nuisance shall be published once and a copy thereof mailed to the
affected property owners, which Notice shall specify that action upon this Resolu-
tion shall be taken at a special public meeting of the City Council to be held on
March 15, 1977, such publication to be not less than one week prior to the date of
such meeting.
The Council at such meeting shall hear all property owners with reference
to the above matter. It is further Resolved that a copy of this Resolution shall
be mailed immediately to the owners of the property involved herein.
Passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota, at
a regular meeting held the 1st day of March 1977.
H. E. RICHARDSON, JERRE A. MILLER,
City Clerk Mayor
JOSEPH C. VESELY,
City Attorney