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AN ORDINANCE • CLOSING, VACATING AND DISCONTINUING A PORTION OF ALBEMARLE STREET WHEREAS, proper notice that Alexander B. Dotson would make application to the City Council of the City of Charlottesville, to have the hereinafter described street closed, vacated and discontinued was duly posted; and WHEREAS, all owners abutting said street have been duly notified; and WHEREAS, application was made to the City Council, and pursuant to the statutes in such cases made and provided, the Council appointed viewers who have reported that no inconvenience would result from such closure, vacation and discontinuance; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, that the said street located in said City, described as follows, is hereby closed, vacated and discontinued as a public thoroughfare of the City of Charlottes- ville, Virginia, said street not being needed for public use and travel: • That portion of Albemarle Street from its intersection with Dale Avenue and running in a southeasterly direction for a distance of 73.14 feet, more or less, and bounded on the west by Parcel 16 and on the east by the Southern Railway property as shown on City Real Property Tax Map 31. This portion lies immediately north of the portion of Albemarle Street vacated by ordinance adopted October 20, 1980. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the City of Charlottesville hereby reserves unto itself perpetual easements ten feet in width on either side of the centerlines of all water, sanitary sewer and storm sewer lines or mains shown on plat to be recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Charlottes- ville. These easements shall include the perpetual right of ingress and egress over the vacated area for the purpose of installing, maintaining, repairing or replacing such utility lines; and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that the City of Charlottesville hereby reserves unto itself a pedestrian easement to be shown on the above-mentioned plat to be recorded in the aforesaid Clerk's Office. This ordinance shall be effective upon recordation of the aforesaid plat by petitioner or his successors in interest. Approved by Council October 17, 1983 erk ot Council 83-7-32