Loading...
47 - PC 17-12 2773, 2765 Virginia underground stormwater treatment maint agreement NEN I 11 Doc No T05574818 Certified, filed and/or recorded on Nov 14, 2018 10:24 AM Office of the Registrar of Titles Hennepin County, Minnesota Martin McCormick, Registrar of Titles Mark Chapin, County Auditor and Treasurer Deputy 98 Pkg ID 1759597C Document Recording Fee $46.00 Multiple Certificates Affected Fee $20.00 Document Total $66.00 Existing Certs 1452214, 1452215 This cover sheet is now a permanent part of the recorded document. AGREEMENT AND EASEMENT TO MAINTAIN UNDERGROUND STORMWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of the t3 day of August, 2018, by and between The Lodge of New Hope LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company ("Lodge") and The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, a North Dakota non-profit corporation ("Good Samaritan") (Lodge and Good Samaritan shall sometimes be jointly referred to herein as the"Owners"), and the City of New Hope, a Minnesota municipal corporation("City"). WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, Lodge is the fee owner of real property located at 2773 and 2765 Virginia Avenue North in the City of New Hope, Hennepin County, Minnesota, adjacent to the Good Samaritan campus and legally described as follows: Lot 1,Block 1,Ambassador Second Addition,Hennepin County,Minnesota (sometimes referred to herein as"Lot 1") WHEREAS, Good Samaritan is the fee owner of the parcel adjacent to Lot 1, located at 8100 27th Avenue North, and legally described as follows: Lot 2, Block 1, Ambassador Second Addition, Hennepin County, Minnesota (sometimes referred to herein as "Lot 2") (Lot 1 and Lot 2 collectively referred to as the "Property") WHEREAS,an underground stormwater treatment system comprised of a subsurface rate control basin to be located on Lot 1,various catch basins and storm sewer piping to be located on both Lot 1 and Lot 2,and a swale to be constructed under a hallway that links the buildings on both Lot 1 and Lot 2,which serves as the emergency stormwater overflow area and an existing subsurface sand filter and vegetated swale located on Lot 2 (jointly,the"Storm Basins") (the entire stormwater treatment system shall be collectively referred to herein as the"Stormwater System") shall be constructed on the Property by the Lodge and Good Samaritan; WHEREAS,the purpose of this Agreement is to ensure Owners'performance of regular maintenance of the Stormwater System; WHEREAS, as part of this Agreement, Owners shall convey to the City an easement over the Property for access to maintain the Stormwater System, in the event Owners fail to perform the maintenance obligations set forth herein; and WHEREAS, the City has given approval to the Stormwater System subject to compliance by Owners with certain conditions, including entering into this Agreement with the City. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of mutual covenants of the parties set forth herein and other valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged,the parties agree as follows: 1. Construction and Maintenance of the Underground Stormwater Treatment System. Owners and their successors or assigns as fee owners of the Property shall be responsible for constructing,maintaining, operating, and repairing all portions of the Stormwater System as graphically depicted on Exhibit A, attached hereto. This maintenance includes the following: a. Remove litter, debris, and accumulated sediment from the Storm Basins, including inlet, outlet, and/or pretreatment structures. b. Storm Basins shall not be used to stockpile snow, or for snow catchment areas from parking lots because of sediment accumulation. c. Maintain the integrity and viability of the Storm Basins, including all native perennial vegetation, in a way which does not compromise the effectiveness of the design. All established vegetation should be checked for survival and replaced as quickly as possible with similar plant species. d. Maintain the depth of the Storm Basins and ensure that it does not fill up with sediment or debris. e. Control weeks and noxious species. This can be done with spot spraying, weeding, or selective cutting. f. Water all plants to maintain an adequate supply of moisture in the root zone. An adequate supply of moisture shall be considered 1 inch of absorbed water per week either through natural rainfall or augmented by periodic watering. Apply water at a moderate rate so as not to displace the mulch or flood the plants. Owners and their successors or assigns as fee owners of the Property shall be jointly and severally responsible for observing all Drainage Laws governing the operation and maintenance of the Stormwater System contained within the Easement on the Property. Owners, at Owners' sole cost and expense, shall provide the City with a schedule acceptable to the City for inspection of the Stormwater System and any outlet control structures. Owners shall make all such scheduled inspections, keep records of all inspections and maintenance activities, and upon receipt of request from the City from time to time, submit such records annually to the City. The cost of all inspections and maintenance within the Easement, shall be the obligation of Owners 2 and their successors or assigns as the fee owner of the Property. Further, Owners and their successors or assigns, shall meet all of the requirements of the City's MS4 permit (Part 3.D.5.a.(5).(a)-(c)) relating to the Stormwater System and comply with all structural stormwater best management practices (BMP's) as determined by the City, and observe all applicable drainage laws governing the operation and maintenance of the Stormwater System. 2. Schedule of Maintenance: Owners, at their sole cost and expense, shall inspect and maintain the Stormwater System, including all inlet, outlet, and/or control structures, twice a year. Inspections and maintenance shall be completed in the Spring and Fall. Owners' representative shall make all such scheduled inspections,keep record of all inspections and maintenance activities, and upon receipt of request from the City from time to time, shall submit such records to the City. The cost of all inspections and maintenance shall be the obligation of Owners and their successors or assigns as the fee owner of the Property. 3. City's Maintenance Rights. The City may maintain the Easement and Stormwater System contained therein, as provided in this paragraph, if the City reasonably believes that Owners or their successors or assigns have failed to maintain the Easement and Stormwater System in accordance with applicable Drainage Laws and BMP's, and such failure shall continue for thirty (30) days after the City shall give Owners written notice of such failure. The City's notice shall specifically state which maintenance tasks are to be performed. If Owners shall not complete the maintenance tasks within thirty (30) days after such notice is given by the City, the City shall have the right to enter upon the Easement to perform such maintenance tasks. In such case, the City shall send an invoice of its reasonable maintenance costs to Owners or their successors or assigns, who shall pay said costs within thirty (30) days of receipt of said invoice. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of an emergency, as determined by the City Engineer, the thirty (30)-day notice requirement to Owners for failure to perform maintenance tasks shall be and hereby is waived in its entirety by Owners, and Owners shall reimburse the City for any expense so incurred by the City in the same manner as if written notice as described above has been given. Periodic City inspections may be conducted by a City representative. Owners agree the City may levy and collect its maintenance costs as a special assessment against the Property's real estate taxes in the event the City fails to receive payment of the maintenance costs in accordance with this paragraph. Owners further agree the maintenance costs incurred by the City per this paragraph resulting from the City's elimination of a public health or safety hazard from private property per Minn. Stat. §429.101. 4. Grant of Easement to City. Owners do hereby grant,bargain and convey unto the City, its successors and assigns, forever, a permanent easement including full and free right and authority to enter upon the Property and to maintain the Stormwater System constructed thereon("Easement"), in the event Owners fail to do so. The Easement shall continue forever as a permanent easement over,under and across the Property and the City shall have the right to make such use as is reasonably necessary and advisable in the maintenance of the Stormwater System, in the event Owners fail to abide by the 3 • maintenance terms set forth herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing,the Easement shall automatically terminate if the Stormwater System is removed from the Property. 5. Hold Harmless. Owners agree to indemnify and hold harmless the City and its agents and employees against any and all claims, demands, losses, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) arising out of or resulting from Owners or their respective agent's, employee's, and/or representative's negligent or intentional acts, or any violation of any safety law, regulation or code in the performance of this Agreement, without regard to any inspection or review made or not made by the City, its agents, employees or representatives or failure by the City, its agents, employees and representatives to take any other prudent precautions. In the event the City, upon the failure of the Owners to comply with any conditions of this Agreement, performs said conditions pursuant to its authority in this Agreement, City shall indemnify and hold harmless Owners, their respective agents, employees and representatives for City's own negligent acts in the performance of Owners' required work under this Agreement. 6. Costs of Enforcement. In the event Owners and/or City resorts to litigation to enforce the terms of this Agreement, the non-prevailing party(ies) shall reimburse the prevailing party(ies) for all reasonable litigation costs, including attorney's fees incurred by the prevailing party(ies) in such litigation. 7. Notice. All notices required under this Agreement shall either be personally delivered or be sent by certified or registered mail and addressed as follows: Owners The Lodge of New Hope LLC Dave Pokorney, Treasurer 1110 Yellow Brick Road Chaska,MN 55318 The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society 4800 West 57th Street Sioux Falls, SD 57108 City Kirk McDonald, City Manager City of New Hope 4401 Xylon Avenue North New Hope,MN 55428 kmcdonald@ci.new-hope.mn.us All notices given hereunder shall be deemed given upon delivery when personally delivered, sent via U.S. mail, certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or sent via nationally recognized overnight courier service, and properly addressed as provided herein. 4 8. Successors. All duties and obligations of Owners under this Agreement shall also be duties and obligations of Owners' respective successors and assigns. 9. Effective Date. This Agreement shall be binding and effective as of the date hereof. 10. Recording of this Agreement. Once this Agreement has been fully executed, it shall be delivered to the City Attorney for recording with the office of the Hennepin County Recorder's Office. 11. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. IN WITNESS WHEREOF,we have hereunto set our hands and seals. 5 SIGNATURE AND NOTARY PAGES FOR AGREEMENT AND EASEMENT TO MAINTAIN UNDERGROUND STORMWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM City of New Ho��e By: 6-1QQ P14 Kathi en Its:--Isay r By: ��1 \l�r 4C3 Kirk McDonald Its: City Manager STATE OF MINNESOTA ) ) ss. COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this /6 day of cia , 2018, by Kathi Hemken, and Kirk McDonald, the Mayor and City Manager, respe ively, of the City of New Hope, a Minnesota municipal corporation, on behalf of said municipal corporation. ..".j.,te:e,- 04:_rt_e__ Notary Public e,;,,i ; VALERIE J LEONE k- 11'� Notary Public-Minnesota f 4i..' My Commission Expires Jen 31,2020 �uw 6 • Owner The Lodge ew 11/$, C By: /i� _�.1LIJI ave Pokorn• Its: Treasurer STATE OF MINNESOTA ) s Rg BARBARAJ. EGLI SS. NOTARY PUBLIC•MINNESOTA COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) .__ ." My Comm.Exp.Jen.31,2021 The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this 9 day of , 2018, by David Pokorney, the Treasurer of The Lodge of New Hope LLC, a Minn a limited liability company, on behalf of said limited liability company. L-.6aAitA-k EEE. Notary Public 7 Owner The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society By: SA4 Its: eiC e,t,c c , l/ r Q STATE OFSO\ N\-\ 0- ) ss. COUNTY OF IMQNO ) The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this (u day of `--: uS^ , 2018, by "N`cems AS y V QI c the EX e -U w of The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, a North Dakota non-profit corporation, on behalf of said non-profit corporation. JaiHULS 14;,, 140- Y IC 'Y: )0Alau&A, Nary Public /4-1-023 DRAFTED BY: JENSEN SONDRALL PERSELLIN&WOODS,P.A. 8525 Edinbrook Crossing,#201 Brooklyn Park,MN 55443 (763) 424-8811 8 Exhibit A Underground Stormwater Treatment System See attached. P:\Attomey\SAS\1 Client Files\2 City of New Hope\99-21712 Good Samaritan PUD Subdivision\Agreement and Easement to Maintain Underground Stormwater System-v3.docx 9 v. flip f by - - , .`as)w ` Naeem ; I r - I V —.`rte- '"—'' _ u �;�+; — — ... .' e1 + e7,-sr —f fy9,o ,. . �1 t6 M7UIIXY YSSYgRY�a! �uouioue3 4 pUa ebw°iG_... ` '8 V Tg x I.,: d ;I ; k . I b Z ill gf I.= t lk \\Y\\\\\\\U\\\U\\\\ Z`�I O) 6 § b ;gy p. d —\\ 'h1 a . y, 4 1 ash .s.!P u \\ \ \\ \ 4 r - 111111 y 1 e 11,E ' A • --, f;�```` -,.,1. „.4•/.7.2.,,,:> _...,....._ „� 7�` ► `'�v .:. fl ' i :w '� 7. ,, 'S ' -M- :-;� r • ..,.t.., 1 \ 7 ` , •,. � i �• <<'t �..:+. `— \. rr ice. ^ +}r /'▪ \w \L l- I 0 U. $4,..„1:t , . ,,. if' ,,,-- 1 6,, g- \, ::,', '% ‘,..Ihs:..!____.!,---,......7 ill .!1 00.11 ,., 1 ,i i f F-44- 7,7 N j, \. y•• ' FE' k - it 1 ..1 11 __-` ;'l "A ,,,kf J L .i ,.l'•i s. w tik' { f C. ka ° a ,� Il, r ▪ ' - .-:st.,--:,. - .� Pi�3 •S I ill 11 II Sty :47---------S g__ - I I„ kl 4. h= _, �,��La :10,.X-e•I' I�11 �'. / !�- ''•-_, ,, 7-r- 1 , , ,,, _, _ / _ J. .'j r s' -1� � 1 111 mna CL lI % ; ,� / tel. +' S - 1 I ev I h;�� SII �' 1- \ 1 • ii 1,1,, \\\ 1 y; w _\ _ '. \ \ it it'''''';'/'' ''''''' • s — • ��}4j1 -1 7� ••A : - 2 1 . :h1 \ \ Y .?._C I I \\\ • -- \ \O I vim. I ti. I,I.., • r rr \ r _ 1 __ s \ ' "A'irg.. >\ 4... 'il 4c.> \\,,,, ' s , 1 ii OMISLIG I I 1