Subject:
Title
Approval, Re: Contract for Sale and Purchase and Addendum for a Fee Simple Parcel and Utility Easements from Wheeler Farms, Inc. for the Wastewater Treatment and Water Treatment Facilities Relocation Project - District 3.
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Fiscal Impact:
$776,676.00 - Utility Services Department
Dept/Office:
Public Works Department / Land Acquisition Office / Utility Services Department
Requested Action:
Recommendation
It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners approve and authorize the Chair to execute the attached Contract for Sale and Purchase and Addendum.
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Summary Explanation and Background:
The subject properties are located in Sections 01 and 09, Townships 30G and 30 South, Range 38 East, southwest of Dottie Drive, and on the north side of Micco Road in Palm Bay.
When the Utilities Services Department began seeking a new location to construct new water and wastewater treatment facilities to comply with recently enacted State and Federal laws, the Department determined that a parcel owned by the Barefoot Bay Water and Sewer District, under Tax Parcel Number 30-38-08-00-1 (320 acres), located west of the current Barefoot Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the recently acquired parcels to the south, under Tax Parcel #30-38-09-25-A-1 and #30-38-09-25-*-A (80 acres), would be suitable for the development of the new treatment facilities, access, and infrastructure.
However, the only current access to the 320-acre future treatment facilities site is via an unpaved road known as Dottie Drive. Dottie Drive functions as a county maintenance roadway, which is leveled and adjacent to the Sottile Canal, making it subject to flooding. Additionally, this roadway was designed only for low-volume traffic. The proposed approach for the new treatment facilities is to have a dedicated access drive from Micco Road to the facility, and the recently acquired 80-acre property is part of the alignment of the proposed new access. The access drive will ...
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