1976-05-11 BCC Meeting Minutes - Orange County Comptroller

Meeting May 11, 1976 Page 364
Note: Commissioner Thomas left the room at this time.
Resolution
to
Condemn
Azalea
Homes
Drainage
Upon motion by Commissioner Poe, seconded by Commissioner Benham, and
carried, the Board adopted the following Resolution:
WHEREAS, in connection with the county water control system in
County of Orange, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, it is necessary
that said county have proper rights for drainage, and it is necessary and in the
public interest that there be acquired the fee simple interest in certain lands
for proper drainage purposes in the County's Secondary Drainage System for
Canal E-8, and
WHEREAS, efforts to purchase said right of way from the owners of
said land have been futile, now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the County of Orange a political subdivision of the State
of Florida, by and through the Board of County Commissioners of said County,
that the acquisition of the fee simple interest in certain land for drainage purposes
had been found to be and is hereby found and determined to be necessary,
practical and to the best interest of the County of Orange, Florida, and the
people of said County, and the same is for a county purpose; and be it further
RESOLVED that for the purposes aforesaid, it is necessary, practical
and to the best interest of the public and of the County of Orange and of the
people of said county that the fee simple interest for drainage purposes be
acquired in the name of said county by eminent domain, over and upon all that
certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in the County of
Orange, State of Florida, purportedly owned by Dian J. Groves and Elaine J.
Singleton, described as follows:
West 30 feet of North 726.23 feet of West 114
of NE 1 I 4 of SW 1 I 4 in Section 26, Township
22 South, Range 30 East.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Orange, the Board
of Commissioners of said County, the Clerk of said Board, the attorneys for
said Board and County, and all appropriate departments, officers and employee
of said County be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to proceed to
take necessary steps to institute and prosecute such necessary actions and
proceedings as may be proper for the acquisition of the fee simple interest
in said land by eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, and to prepare,
sign, execute, serve, publish and file, in the name of said county by its
Meeting May 11, 1976