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To Authorize the Water Commissioner on behalf of the City to enter into agreements with the owners of the properties and their successors of a private street known as Blakiston lane from Frankford avenue to a dead-end approximately 358 feet northeasterly of Frankford avenue for the grant of a right-of-way to the City for drainage, sewer and water main purposes.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. The Water Commissioner is hereby authorized to enter into agreement with the owners and their successors of a private street known as Blakiston lane from Frankford avenue to a dead-end approximately 358 feet northwesterly of Frankford avenue for the grant of a right-of-way to the City for drainage, sewer and water main purposes.
SECTION 2. The agreement shall be prepared by the City Solicitor in a form substantially as follows:
"RIGHT OF WAY AND EASEMENT AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, made this ________ day of ______________ 200 , by and between, , the record owners of a certain Property at _____ BLAKISTON LANE in the 57th Ward, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hereinafter called "Grantor", and THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, hereinafter called "City";
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, Blakiston Lane from Frankford Avenue to a dead-end approximately 358 feet northwesterly of Frankford Avenue is a private street. Blakiston Lane has an existing public water main servicing the properties; and
WHEREAS, in order to reconstruct and maintain the said public water main, the property owners of Blakiston Lane must grant unto the City a certain right-of-way for drainage, sewer and water main purposes, twenty feet wide extending in a northeasterly direction from Frankford Avenue to a dead-end approximately 358 feet northwesterly of Frankford Avenue, under certain terms and conditions; and
WHEREAS, the parties desire to enter into an agreement for the grant of said right-of-way; and
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto, intend...
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