DEPARTMENT
Real Estate and Asset Management
REQUESTED ACTION title
Request approval of a Resolution authorizing the transfer of three (3) deeds for rights-of-way and limited access rights from Fulton County (Grantor) to the Georgia Department of Transportation (Grantee) for County-owned remnant parcels located at or near 0 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, 0 Oakcliff Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, and 0 Shirley Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, for the purpose of constructing roadway improvements; authorizing the Chairman to execute the deeds and related documents; authorizing the County Attorney to approve the deeds and related documents as to form and to make necessary modifications thereof prior to execution. Effective upon approval. (APPROVED UPON ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT AGENDA)
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REQUIREMENT FOR BOARD ACTION
O.C.G.A. ? 36-9-2 authorizes Fulton County to sell, grant, lease, rent, convey, or transfer any real property owned by the County. Fulton County Code ? 1-117 provides that the Board of Commissioners has exclusive jurisdiction and control over all property of the County, and O.C.G.A. ? 36-9-3(a)(3)(A) authorizes Fulton County to grant rights of way without a competitive process.
STRATEGIC PRIORITY AREA RELATED TO THIS ITEM
Open and Responsible Government
COMMISSION DISTRICTS AFFECTED
All Districts ?
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IS THIS A PURCHASING ITEM?
No
SUMMARY & BACKGROUND
Scope of Work: The Department of Real Estate and Asset Management - DREAM received a request from the Georgia Department of Transportation ("GDOT") to acquire rights-of-way and limited access rights to three (3) Fulton County properties. DREAM's research of the subject properties confirmed the subject properties are remnant rights-of -way parcels with no utility reflected by them not having any tax identification numbers.
Rights-of-way and limited access rights has been requested by GDOT from the parcels located at:...
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