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Date: October 25. 1994
COUNCIL ACTION FORM
SUBJECT: PARTIALLY VACATING A STORM SEWER EASEMENT OVER
OUTLOT A, OAK PARK ADDITION (836 BROOKRIDGE AVENUE).
BACKGROUND:
The property owner of 836 Brookridge Avenue is planning to construct an addition to
his house. This addition would encroach 2' into a 10' wide storm sewer easement
described as 5' on each side of a line lying 16' north and parallel to the south line of
Outlet A, Oak Park Addition to the City of Ames, Iowa and lying west of the alley
between Brookridge Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue.
It is City policy to not allow the construction of permanent buildings such as houses to
encroach into easements.
Staff has determined that 2' of the easement could be vacated and there still would be
enough easement left for the storm sewer. The existing storm sewer is forty feet deep
in this area. In order to make repairs on the storm sewer using open cut methods
would require more width than the easement. It would be less expensive to make
repairs of the pipe from inside the pipe or the pipe would be rerouted. This is because
it would be necessary to purchase and demolish the house.
ALTERNATIVES:
1. Approve the request and allow the home owner to build his new addition two feet
into the existing easement.
2. Deny the request.
In either alternative, in order for the City to use open cut methods to repair the storm
sewer next to the house, it would require demolition of the house.
MANAGER'S RECOMMENDED ACTION:
It is the recommendation of the City Manager that the City Council approve vacating the
south 2' of the storm sewer easement described as 5' on each side of a line lying 16'
north and parallel to the south line of Outlet A, Oak Park Addition to the City of Ames,
Iowa in order to allow construction of the addition to 836 Brookridge Avenue.
COUNCIL ACTION: