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AN ORDINANCE CLOSING, VACATING AND DISCONTINUING • WOODROW STREET WHEREAS, proper notice was duly posted and advertised that Stadium Road Limited Partnership would request the City Planning Commission to initiate street closing procedures to close Woodrow Street, 30 feet in width, between Stadium Road and Jefferson Park Avenue, shown on City Real Estate Tax Map 16, running a distance of approximately 478 feet; WHEREAS, owners along the street proposed to be vacated have been duly notified; WHEREAS, a joint public hearing by the Planning Commission and City Council was held on September 10, 1996, and comments from the City staff, the Planning Commission and the public were made and heard; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission recommended closure of said portion of Woodrow Street with certain conditions; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia that Woodrow Street, described as follows, is hereby closed, vacated and discontinued as a public thoroughfare of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, said street not being needed for public use and travel: All of the Woodrow Street right-of-way, approximately 30 feet in • width, from its intersection with Stadium Road to its intersection with Jefferson Park Avenue, running a distance of approximately 478 feet, as shown on the attached sketch. PROVIDED, that the City of Charlottesville hereby reserves unto itself a perpetual easement ten feet in width on either side of the center line of any water, gas, sanitary or storm sewer mains presently located in the area being vacated, including the perpetual right of ingress and egress over the vacated area for the purpose of installing, maintaining, repairing or replacing such utility lines or mains; and PROVIDED FURTHER, that the following conditions are fulfilled: (1) The adjoining property owners, excluding the City of Charlottesville, shall provide for storm water connections to Jefferson Park Avenue from the east side of Woodrow Street as part of the Jefferson Park Avenue sidewalk construction. (2) All adjoining property owners, excluding the City, shall enter into a joint access and maintenance agreement with respect to the vacated area. Such agreement shall preclude the building of additional units on the vacated area. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Clerk of the Council shall send a copy of this ordinance with plat attached to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for recordation in the current street • closing book at such time that the City Attorney advises that the conditions have been fulfilled. Approved by Council November 4, 1996 OLVRK OF CITY COUNCIL