ORD 74-05 ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC PARKORDINANCE NO. 74-~
AN ORDINANCE DECLARING A PUBLIC USE AND NECESSITY
FOR THE ACQUISITION AND TAKING OF FEE TITLE TO A
CERTAIN PARCEL OF REAL PROPERTY FOR THE PURPOSE
OF ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC PARK; PROVIDING FOR THE
AUTHORIZATION OF THE CITY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE
AND PROSECUTE CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS, APPRO--
PRIATION, TAKING AND DAmaGING OF LAND AND
PROVIDING FOR PAYMENT THEREFORE
THE CITY COUNCIl, OF THE CITY OF WINSLOW DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section A. The City Council of the City of Winslow has
established the need to acquire a public waterfront park
within the City limits and has requested financial assistance
therefor from the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation
and the residents of the City have approved a general obligation
bond issue to cover the local share of land acquisition and
development costs. For this purpose the City of Winslow, acting
through its City Council, hereby finds and declares that the
public necessity and convenience require acquisition of the
real property described as:
Lots 1 through 6 inclusive, Lot 9, Block 2; Lots
2 through 7 inclusive Block 3; Lots 1 through 3
inclusive, the easterly 14 feet more or less of
Block 12 and all of lots 13 through 15, Block 4~
Lots 6 through 14 inclusive, Block 5; Lot l,
Block 6; all in Stafford's addition to the City
of Winslow according to plat recorded in Volume 8
of Plats, pages 11, 12 and 13, Kitsap County,
Washington, and all tidelands fronting Block 5
and Lot 1, Block 6, Stafford~s Addition to the
City of Winslow
which property is located in Kitsap County, Washington to be
made subject to acGuisition either by purchase or condemnation
for public use as a public park.
~ct%o~ ~. The cost of the acGuisition and compensation
for land taken shall be paid by the City of Winslow from funds
applicable thereto, to wit, from funds established and to be
established by the City of Winslow for that purpose including
but not limited to certain grants and matching funds in
these premises provided and to be provided.
Section 3. The City Attorney is hereby authorized and
directed to begin proceedings looking to the purchase and
acquisition of the necessary real property for the public
park site ana to the extent necessary to prosecute the pro-
ceeding in the manner provided by law to condemn, take,
appropriate, and damage the land~ rights, privileges and other
property necessary to carry out the provisions of this
Ordinance and to petition the Superior Court for an Order
Adjudicating Public Use and Necessity and to negotiate with
the owners for the agreed acquisition of said ].and, failing
which negotiations to proceed to trial on the issues of just
compensation and special benefits.
Section 4. If any section, sentence, clause, or phrase
of this Ordinance should be held to be invalid for any reason~
the invalidity thereof shall not affect the validity of any
other section, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance.
Section 5. This Ordinance shall take effect five days
after its passage, approval and publication.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THIS 1st DAY OF APRIL, 1974,
AND SIGNED AND AUTHENTICATION OF ITS PASSAGE THIS 1st DAY OF
APRIL, 197a. _ ..... -~ ~
ATTEST:
City C] erk-Trea'surer' ~" '/
VED AS TO FORM:
obert W. McKesson
of Beresford, Booth, Lehne &
McKisson
City Attorneys
Frank C. Vibrans, Jr. , Mayor ..
Date of Publication
7'-/-