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Approved by City Council on May 1, 2000 AN ORDINANCE • CLOSING, VACATING AND DISCONTINUING PORTIONS OF SADLER STREET AND AN ADJOINING ALLEY. WHEREAS, proper notice was duly posted and advertised that Keith Woodard would request the City Planning Commission to initiate street closing procedures to close a portion of Sadler Street east of 14" Street, N.W. and a portion of an adjoining alley, said Sadler Street right-of- way being approximately 30 feet in width and running a distance of approximately 151 feet from 14`" Street, N.W. to a 10 foot wide alley running approximately 200 feet south of Sadler Street, shown on the attached map drawn by the City Neighborhood Planning & Development Services Department; WHEREAS, owners along those portions of Sadler Street and the alley to be closed have been duly notified; WHEREAS, a joint public hearing by the Planning Commission and City Council was held on March 14, 2000, and comments from the City staff, the Planning Commission and the public were made and heard; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission recommended closure of the subject street right-of- way and the alley, with a recommendation to Council that the applicant pay fair market value for the closed right-of-way; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Virginia Code §15.2-2008 City staff and Keith Woodard have agreed to a purchase price of $15,000 for the subject right-of-way, conditioned on City Council approval; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia that a portion of the Sadler Street right-of-way, a dedicated but unopened street, and a portion of the adjoining 10 foot alley, described as follows, are hereby closed, vacated and discontinued as public thoroughfares of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, said street right-of-way and alley not being needed for public use and travel: Public right-of-way known as Sadler Street in the City of Charlottesville, approximately 30 feet in width and running a distance of approximately 151 feet east of 141" Street, N.W., and a portion of an adjoining 10 foot wide alley running approximately 200 feet south of the above -referenced Sadler Street right-of-way, shown on the attached map drawn by the City Community Development Department, and located on City Real Estate Tax Map 4 adjacent to Parcels 291, 292 and 302. 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.