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• <br />AN ORDINANCE <br />CLOSING, VACATING AND DISCONTINUING <br />PORTIONS OF ST. CHARLES AVENUE AND TAYLOR STREET <br />WHEREAS, proper notice that Martha Jefferson Hospital <br />would request the City Planning Commission to initiate <br />street closing procedures to close portions of St. Charles <br />Avenue and Taylor Street was duly posted and advertised; <br />WHEREAS, owners along the street proposed to be vacated <br />have been duly notified; <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to the statutes in such cases made and <br />provided, the Council held a joint public hearing with the <br />Planning Commission on March 8, 1988 and subsequently <br />continued on April 12, 1988, and received comments from the <br />City staff, the Planning Commission and the public; and <br />WHEREAS, the Planning Commission recommended closure of <br />those portions of St. Charles Avenue and Taylor Street as <br />described below; now, therefore, <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottes- <br />ville, Virginia that the said portions of St. Charles Avenue <br />and Taylor Street, located in said City, described as <br />follows, are hereby closed, vacated and discontinued as <br />• public thoroughfares of the City of Charlottesville, <br />Virginia, said portions of the streets not being needed for <br />public use and travel: <br />That portion of St. Charles Avenue between Taylor <br />and Sycamore Streets, a distance of 350 feet with <br />a width of 40 feet; and <br />That portion of Taylor Street beginning on the <br />west side of Locust Avenue and continuing west a <br />distance of 416.60 feet with a width of 50 feet. <br />PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that Martha Jefferson Hospital <br />arranges at its expense the relocation of all City utilities <br />within the portions of streets proposed for closure, <br />including one high pressure gas main, two low pressure gas <br />mains, two water mains, two sanitary sewer mains and two <br />storm sewer mains within Taylor Street, and two sanitary <br />sewer mains and a storm sewer main within St. Charles Avenue. <br />The City of Charlottesville also reserves unto itself a <br />perpetual easement ten feet in width on either side of the <br />centerline of all water, gas, sanitary or storm sewer mains <br />relocated from the area being vacated, including the <br />perpetual right of ingress and egress over the vacated area <br />for the purpose of installing, maintaining, repairing or <br />replacing such utility lines or mains. <br />0 <br />