DEPARTMENT: Parks, Facilities, and Fleet Management
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Execute Encroachment Agreement With PFC Midstream Natural Gas Pipeline, L.P. And Xcel Energy For Veterans Memorial Greenway Phase I, County Project P00147
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize an encroachment agreement with PFC Midstream Natural Gas Pipeline, L.P. Xcel Energy for the encroachment of a private utility utilities easements for greenway trail construction for County Project (CP) P00147 in Inver Grove Heights.
SUMMARY
To enrich lives by providing high-quality recreation and education opportunities in harmony with natural resource preservation and stewardship, Dakota County Parks is proceeding with the Veterans Memorial Greenway.
The Veterans Memorial Greenway is a proposed regional trail and open-space corridor that will provide a link between Lebanon Hills Regional Park and the Mississippi River in central Dakota County. The five-mile corridor stretches east and west within Eagan and Inver Grove Heights, which follows the adopted Rich Valley Greenway master plan corridor. The Veterans Memorial Greenway will provide neighborhood access points connecting single-family residential neighborhoods, local park connections, and rural and undeveloped open space (Attachment: Project Location).
A portion of the Greenway will be constructed over a 50' Xcel Energy and 30' PFC Midstream Natural Gas Pipeline, L.P. existing private utility easement within the County's 100' easement with Flint Hills Resources. This came up late in the final design process, and the project team had to act quickly to get a framework of an encroachment agreement in place prior to construction activities in Spring of 2024.
The formal document (Attachment: Encroachment Map) is required to record the permanent encroachment of the greenway trail into the easement. The project does not require relocation or adjustment of any utilities.
Encroachment Agreements:
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