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AN ORDINANCE is CLOSING, VACATING AND DISCONTINUING A PORTION OF ROCKLAND AVENUE RIGHT-OF-WAY WHEREAS, proper notice was duly posted and advertised that Patricia Crawford would request the City Planning Commission to initiate street closing procedures to close a portion of the unopened right-of-way of Rockland Avenue, approximately 60 feet in width and running a distance of approximately 86 feet, east of Castalia Street, 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 April 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 Rockland Avenue; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia that the above -referenced portion of Rockland Avenue 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 Rockland Avenue right-of-way, approximately 60 feet in width and running a distance of approximately 86 feet, east of Castalia Street, shown on the attached map drawn by the City Community Development Department, and located on City Real Estate Tax Map 60 adjacent to Parcels 114, 115, and 120. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, 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. 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 May 19, 1997 C rk of City Council