Amended & Enacted 4/22/14 1 Introduced by the Council President at the request of the Mayor and 2 amended by the Rules Committee: 3 4 5 ORDINANCE 2014-208-E 6 AN ORDINANCE DECLARING A PART OF THAT CERTAIN 7 PARCEL OF REAL PROPERTY (R.E. NUMBER 004864- 8 0000) 9 SOUTHWEST CONSISTING OF OF 2.74 COMMONWEALTH WITH ACRES AVENUE IMESON NEAR INTERSECTION 11 DISTRICT 10, TO BE SURPLUS TO THE NEEDS OF THE 12 CITY; 13 AUTHORIZING 14 SECRETARY TO 15 NECESSARY FOR 16 WITH 17 PROPERTY 18 PROPERTY), 19 ORDINANCE 20 SECTION 122.423 21 $25,000) OF 22 ORDINANCE CODE, SO AS TO ALLOW CONVEYANCE OF 23 SAID 24 INVESTMENT COMPANY, INC. AT NO COST; PROVIDING 25 AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THE THE ITS MAYOR EXECUTE SUCH AND OF CHAPTER PARCEL 122 WAIVING OF REAL 122 DOCUMENTS IN ACCORDANCE (REAL (REAL PROPERTY), PROVISIONS AT OR (PUBLIC PROPERTY B 4 (PUBLIC (APPRAISAL CHAPTER ALL PART THE AND CORPORATION SUBPART DISPOSITIONS), CODE; THE CONVEYANCE PROVISIONS COUNCIL CONVEYANCE AND ANY IN ITS 10 AUTHORIZING ROAD, LOCATED OF BELOW PROPERTY), TO N.G. WADE 26 27 WHEREAS, on December 30, 1999, the N.G. Wade Investment 28 Company (“Wade”) conveyed approximately 1,216 acres of preservation 29 property to the City of Jacksonville at no cost, as set forth in 30 the 31 incorporated Special Warranty herein by Deed, this attached hereto reference, as subject Exhibit to a 1 and previously Amended 4/22/14 1 recorded conservation easement (the “Conservation Easement”) over 2 the 3 Management District (“SJRWMD”), attached hereto as Exhibit 2 and 4 incorporated herein 5 6 entire property in favor of the St. Johns River Water by this reference; and WHEREAS, the property conveyed is commonly referred to as the Bulls Bay Preservation property; and 7 WHEREAS, on July 21, 2000, Wade conveyed a 4.34 acre light 8 industrial 9 (“Sumitomo”) by means of a Special Warranty Deed, attached hereto 10 property to Sumitomo Bank Leasing and Finance, Inc. as Exhibit 3 and incorporated herein by this reference; and 11 WHEREAS, on that same date, Wade conveyed drainage easements 12 (the “Drainage Easements”) to Sumitomo and Bridgestone/Firestone, 13 Inc. (“Bridgestone”) over the easements area, a 2.74 acre parcel 14 north 15 installing, maintaining, repairing, and replacing underground storm 16 water drainage lines, together with an easement to discharge storm 17 water through such lines into the pond; and 18 of a pond WHEREAS, a (the title “Subject search Parcel”), has for revealed the that purposes the of Drainage 19 Easements were not valid because the Subject Parcel was not owned 20 by Wade at the time it was conveyed to Sumitomo and Bridgestone and 21 that 22 Conservation Easement granted to SJRWMD and in the Special Warranty 23 Deed 24 Parcel, to the City; and 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 the Subject conveying the Parcel had been preservation erroneously property, included including the in the Subject WHEREAS, in order to correct the error, Wade is requesting that the City convey the Subject Parcel back to Wade; and WHEREAS, SJRWMD has agreed to release the Subject Parcel from the Conservation Easement; and WHEREAS, the City of Jacksonville has no need for the Subject Parcel; and WHEREAS, the Department of Parks and Recreation, to which the - 2 - Amended 4/22/14 1 Subject Parcel is allocated, has no objection to the conveyance of 2 the Subject Parcel to Wade; and 3 4 WHEREAS, the assessed value of the Subject Property is $548.00; now therefore 5 BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Jacksonville: 6 Section 1. that Declaration certain 9 004864-0000, 12 surplus to the needs of the City of Jacksonville. A copy of the 13 certificate from the Chief of Real Estate for the surplus of real 14 property, 15 attached hereto as Exhibit 5. Section 2. 3.102 (Preparation in of Exhibit the attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference, to be Rule described as 11 by particularly above Subject required more identified Commonwealth 10 16 and 10, off hereby Avenue near its intersection with Imeson Road, part of R.E. Number District property City 8 Parcel real The declares Council of Surplus. 7 in parcel of Bills), 4, is Authorization of conveyance in accordance with 17 Chapter 122. 18 surplus real property described in Section 1 in accordance with the 19 provisions of Subpart B (Real Property Dispositions), Part 4 (Real 20 Property), 21 Mayor, 22 authorized to execute all documents necessary to convey the Subject 23 Parcel 24 substantially the same form as is attached hereto as Exhibit 6 and 25 incorporated herein by this reference. 26 or to There is hereby authorized the conveyance of the Chapter his Wade Section 3. 122 (Public designee, at no and cost, Property), the Ordinance Corporation including a Code. The Secretary are Quitclaim Deed in Waiver of Section 122.423, Ordinance Code, and 27 disposition authorized. The provisions 28 (Appraisal at or below $25,000) of Chapter 122 (Public Property), 29 Ordinance Code, which direct the Real Estate Officer to negotiate 30 the sale of property appraised at or below $25,000, are hereby 31 waived so as to allow conveyance of the Subject Parcel to Wade at - 3 - of Section 122.423, Amended 4/22/14 1 no cost. The 2 Conservation Easement granted to SJRWMD and in the Special Warranty 3 Deed 4 Parcel, to the City. 5 Section 4. conveying Code the is being waived preservation to property, Effective Date. correct errors including the in the Subject This ordinance shall become 6 effective upon signature by the Mayor or upon becoming effective 7 without the Mayor's signature. 8 9 Form Approved: 10 11 __/s/ Paige Hobbs Johnston 12 Office of General Counsel 13 Legislation prepared by James R. McCain, Jr. 14 G:\SHARED\LEGIS.CC\2014\Ord\03.10.14.PW.Surplus.Wade.BullsBay.122.423.waive.doc - 4 -