04-13-2018, 06:18 PM
I don't speak legal-ese either, but my reading of it is that (there is additional background in this report):
-the region authorized temporary easements to allow construction to proceed in 2016 while they continued negotiations with the owner(s)
-those temporary easements expire 31-Dec-2018
-the region and the owners couldn't reach a settlement outside of the expropriation process
-so the region started the expropriation process in October of 2017
-the owners exercised their rights under the expropriation process to a hearing of necessity in November 2017
-that hearing was scheduled for April 2018
-the owners since withdrew their request for a hearing
-the region resumed the expropriation process
The "...possession of the required lands and interests in late Summer of 2018 so that the works to install vehicular and pedestrian access control gates and associated works, and completion of grading, landscaping and restoration, can all be completed before the end of Fall, 2018 which will facilitate the overall project time line."
-the region authorized temporary easements to allow construction to proceed in 2016 while they continued negotiations with the owner(s)
-those temporary easements expire 31-Dec-2018
-the region and the owners couldn't reach a settlement outside of the expropriation process
-so the region started the expropriation process in October of 2017
-the owners exercised their rights under the expropriation process to a hearing of necessity in November 2017
-that hearing was scheduled for April 2018
-the owners since withdrew their request for a hearing
-the region resumed the expropriation process
The "...possession of the required lands and interests in late Summer of 2018 so that the works to install vehicular and pedestrian access control gates and associated works, and completion of grading, landscaping and restoration, can all be completed before the end of Fall, 2018 which will facilitate the overall project time line."
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.