Canterbury-Edgefield Step Update. Thank you to everyone for your patience. Please know that work is underway on the issue of the ownership of the Canterbury-Edgefield steps. I expect the City Attorneys Office to have the opinion completed soon. I met with the senior City Attorney assigned to the case on Wednesday and requested the opinion by October 24. Hopefully, it will be done. I was hoping to already have an opinion. As the matter is adversarial, the City Attorneys Office is understandably proceeding with caution. The issues include ownership, grant of easement, type of grant of easement and by whom/to whom, who built the stairs, who is responsible for maintenance of the stairs, and was the responsibility for the maintenance of the stairs ever transferred. Other issues include how the Kessler Park Conservation District may affect the standard to which the stairs must be maintained. And foremost, as always, is public safety. A distant second to public safety is money - who pays for what and how - and what to do if there is insufficient funding available. Charles Hatfield has done a great job finding some old records. Other records are not digitized and being searched by hand. All the documentation the City has is public and, as I have said, I will make available to any outside real-estate attorney who would like to render an opinion. Just message me. I appreciate everyones kind comments. Thanks, in advance.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:18:07 +0000
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