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• AN ORDINANCE CLOSING, VACATING AND DISCONTINUING A PORTION OF CASTALIA STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY WHEREAS, proper notice was duly posted and advertised that James and Angelina Dennis would request the City Planning Commission to initiate street closing procedures to close a portion of the unopened right-of-way of Castalia Street, approximately 50 feet in width and running a distance of approximately 267 feet between Montrose Avenue and Elliott Avenue, shown on the attached map drawn by the City Community Development Department; 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 July 8, 1997, 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 Castalia Street on the condition that the City retains a ten foot (10') easement for the purpose of allowing pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and possible installation of utility lines; now, therefore, • BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia that the above - referenced portion of the Castalia Street right-of-way, 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: That portion of the Castalia Street right-of-way, approximately 50 feet in width and running a distance of approximately 267 feet from Montrose Avenue and Elliott Avenue, shown on the attached map drawn by the City Community Development Department, and located on City Real Estate Tax Map 60 adjacent to Parcels 39, 40, 156, and 155. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the City of Charlottesville hereby reserves unto itself a perpetual easement ten feet in width: (1) 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 (2) for public pedestrian and bicycle traffic through the above-described portion of the Castalia Street right-of-way. Said pedestrian and bicycle easement shall be located five feet on each side of the original centerline of the Castalia Street right-of-way now being closed. 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. Approved by Council��y�Q, IiYL September 15, 1997 Jerk of City Colluncil