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ORDINANCE NO. 2004-8-6855
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE NEED FOR
ACQUIRING A PORTION OF TWO PROPERTIES BELONGING
TO MICHAEL SHELTON TAPSCOTT AND WIFE, LISA
TAPSCOTT, AND TO THE ESTATE OF WILIMINA GRAMSE
ULLERICH, TO BE USED BY THE CITY OF PADUCAH TO
CREATE A PUBLIC GREENWAY NATURE TRAIL, AND
AUTHORIZING THE CONDEMNATION OF SAME
WHEREAS, the City of Paducah desires to create a public `Greenway Nature Trail'
system to connect its Parks system; and
WHEREAS, the following described real property is needed by the City of Paducah,
Kentucky in furtherance of the public purpose of the City of Paducah to create a public `Greenway
Nature Trail'; and
WHEREAS, the City of Paducah has been unable to contract or agree with the
owners thereof for the acquisition or purchase of the real property sought to be condemned; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Paducah, Kentucky, do
hereby authorize the condemnation of the herein described real property pursuant to the Kentucky
Revised Statutes.
NOW, BE IT ORDAINED, by the City of Paducah, Kentucky, as follows:
Section 1. That the corporate counsel of the City of Paducah, Kentucky be and is
hereby ordered and directed to institute condemnation proceedings in the McCracken Circuit Court in
the name of the City of Paducah, Kentucky against Michael Shelton Tapscott and Lisa Tapscott, and
against the Estate of Wilimina Gramse Ullerich, and all other parties at interest to acquire the
necessary subject property owned by the aforesaid persons.
Section 2. The portions of the property to be acquired are in McCracken County,
Kentucky, and are more particularly described as being a portion of the property of Michael Shelton
Tapscott and Lisa Tapscott as described in deed dated November 8, 2001, in Deed Book 968, Page
536, McCracken County Court Clerk's Office, and a portion of the property of the Estate of
Wilimina Gramse Ullerich as described in deed dated August 18, 1949, in Deed Book 282, Page 34,
McCracken County Court Clerk's Office, and more particularly being approximately two hundred
feet in width running along and with the southerly property lines of those properties, with the legal
description of those portions to be determined by survey.
Section 3. This Ordinance shall be read on two separate dates and will become
effective upon summary publication pursuant to KRS 424.
William Paxton, Mayor
CITY CLERK
Introduced by the Board of Commissioners, July 27, 2004
Adopted by the Board of Commissioners, August 10, 2004
Recorded by Tammara S. Brock, City Clerk, August 10, 2004
Published by The Paducah Sun, August 16, 2004
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