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• AN ORDINANCE CLOSING, VACATING AND DISCONTINUING AN ALLEY OFF THIRD STREET, N.E. BETWEEN HIGH STREET AND EAST JEFFERSON STREET WHEREAS, proper notice was duly posted and advertised that Court Square, L.L.C. would request the City Planning Commission to initiate street closing procedures to close an alley off Third Street, N.E., said right-of-way being approximately 10 feet in width and running a distance of approximately 103 feet from Third Street, N.E. to its terminus, shown on the attached map drawn by the City's Neighborhood Development Services Department; WHEREAS, owners along this alley have been duly notified; WHEREAS, a joint public hearing by the Planning Commission and City Council was held on January 9, 2001, 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 alley with the recommendation that the approximate value of the alley right-of-way ($6,000) be requested from the ISpetitioners; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia that the alley off Third Street, N.E., running parallel to High Street and East Jefferson Street, described as follows, is hereby closed, vacated and discontinued as a public thoroughfare of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, said alley not being needed for public use and travel: An alley off Third Street, N.E. in the City of Charlottesville, approximately 10 feet in width, running parallel to High Street and East Jefferson Street, for a distance of approximately 103 feet from Third Street, N.E. to its terminus, shown on the attached map drawn by the Neighborhood Development Services Department, and located on City Real Estate Tax Map 33 adjacent to Parcels 204, 205 and 206. 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 February 20, 2001 erk of CIO Council