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RESOLUTION NO. 98-251
A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING PARK LAND
WHEREAS, the City is the owner of property that has been called the "Aiple Property"
upon which Aiple Towing Company and Stillwater/St. Croix Barge Terminal Company have
operated a barge terminal and barge repair facility; and
WHEREAS, the lease between the Aiple interests and the City of Stillwater made for
forty (40) years, expired on the 22°a day of September, 1998, and the property has been returned
to the City in fee simple; and
WHEREAS, the City has conducted a Comprehensive Park Planning process for the
property to determine the feasibility of the property as a City park and the plan is enthusiastic in
it's endorsement of the area as park land; and
WHEREAS, the property is in need of designation as a park in order to ensure that it will
remain as a park in perpetuity and be subject to all of the protections for park land contained in
the City of Stillwater Charter.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the property in the attached Exhibit "A"
formerly known as the Aiple Property be and the same hereby is designated as park land.
Enacted by the City Council of the City of Stillwater this 22nd day of September
1998.
CITY OF STILLWATER
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Morli eldon, Clerk
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All that part of Governr,,ent I,ot O,te (1), Sectio„ Twenty-seven (2?),
and of Government Lots Two (2) and Three (3), Section Thirty-four
(34), in Township Thirty (30) North, Ran6•e Twenty (20) West, described
as follows: Commencing at the &teander Corner on the West lino of
said Section Twe„ty-seven (27) where said 1Yest line of section
Twenty-sevo,i (27) intersects tl~e Westerly shore lino oY Lalce St. Croix,
thence South alo„g said 1•lest line of said Section Twenty-seven (27) to
its intorsection with tho Easterly ril;ht of way lino of ttie Ci,icat,•o,
St. Paul, biinncapolis and Omaha liailway; thenoa Southerly along said
right of way line to the Nortl, line of Lot Five (5), Dlock O,~e (1) ,
of Hersey, Staples and Co.'s Addition to Stillwater, extended leest
to the said Sasterly right of way line of said Chicago, St. haul,
btinneapolis and Omaha Railway; thence last along the A'ortli line
of said Lot Five (5), Dloclc One (1) as extended and along• the North
line of said Lot (5), Dloclc Une (I), and an extension thereof
to tho Hest•erly shore line of 'eke St. Croix; thence in a Northerly
direction along tt,o 1esterly shore line of paid Lake St. Croix to the
point of beginning;
EXHIBIT "A"