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AN ORDINANCE CLOSING, VACATING AND DISCONTINUING A PORTION OF TAYLOR STREET WHEREAS, proper notice that Martha Jefferson Hospital would request the City Planning Commission to initiate street closing procedures to close a portion of Taylor Street was duly posted and advertised; WHEREAS, owners along the street proposed to be vacated have been duly notified; WHEREAS, pursuant to the statutes in such cases made and provided, the Council held a joint public hearing with the Planning Commission on June 14, 1988, and received comments from the City staff, the Planning Commission and the public; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission recommended closure of that portion of Taylor Street as described below; now, there- fore, • BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottes- ville, Virginia that the said portion of Taylor Street, located in said City, described as follows, is hereby closed, vacated and discontinued as a public thoroughfare of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, said portion of the street not being needed for public use and travel: That portion of Taylor Street from a point 416.60 feet west of Locust Avenue and continuing 127 feet west, with a width of 50 feet, to the intersection of Lexington Avenue. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (1) Martha Jefferson Hospital arranges at its expense the relocation of all City utilities within the portion of Taylor Street proposed for closure, including one high pressure gas main, two low pressure gas mains, two water mains, two sanitary sewer mains and two storm sewer mains, and (2) Martha Jefferson Hospital, by appropriate plat or other written instrument, approved by the City Attorney, grants a perpetual easement ten feet in width on either side of the centerline of all water, gas, sanitary or storm sewer mains to be relocated, including the perpetual right of ingress and egress over the property affected by the relocated lines. 41