Edina City Council — Transcript
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Historical Right-of-Way Vacation and Documentation
Votes (1)
Formal Documentation of Minnehaha Avenue Right-of-Way Vacation (Tupa Park Easement)
The item detailed the history of Minnehaha Avenue in Edina, its removal between 1971 and 1974 for Minnesota Highway 100 expansion, and the subsequent discovery that no formal, recorded documentation existed for the vacation of its right-of-way. City staff, MnDOT, and land surveyors confirmed the practical vacation but not the legal record. To resolve this and ensure a clean legal description, particularly concerning an easement through Tupa Park, the city council adopted a resolution. A recommendation was also made to reaffirm the vacation due to the missing original records.
Notable Quotes (2)
City staff mindat staff and land surveyors have found references to the vacation or Public's right to use the road but unable ble to find a recorded copy of the formal documentation to resolve the matter and allow for a clean legal description of the land
prepared the city council earlier this month adopted a resolution vacating the right of-way easement that runs through Tupa Park but we never found a legal recorded document so it was recommended to go back in front of council reaffirm the the vacation we knew existed that we just didn't have documentation for
Ordinances & Resolutions (2)
Adopted by the city council to formally vacate an easement through Tupa Park, addressing missing historical documentation for the Minnehaha Avenue vacation.
Historical legal records for the original vacation of Minnehaha Avenue, which were found to be missing by city and MnDOT staff.