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RESOLUTION ABANDONING A PORTION OF AN ALLEY CONNECTING PRIMROSE STREET AND STALLINGS LANE
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WHEREAS, all of the property owners abutting upon a certain alley hereinafter described have filed with the City Council their petition requesting that the City enter into an agreement to close and abandon said alley under authority of Ark. Stats. Anno. ยง19-3817, which alley is described as follows:
An alley running North an South; the same being 10' wide connecting Primrose Street and Stallings Lane and more particularly described as beginning at a point 15 feet East of the NW corner of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of section 21, Township 14 North, Range 4 East; thence run East 200 feet for the point of beginning; thence run South 650 feet; thence East 10 feet; thence North 650 feet; thence West 10 feet to the point if beginning proper.
WHEREAS, the Council finds that, although platted, the alley has never been improved or open for public vehicular travel; that the entire length of said alley between Primrose Street and Stallings Lane is owned by your petitioners, both the East and West sides of said alley are under the same ownership; that there are public streets both North and South of said alley and within a reasonable distance therefrom which give adequate vehicular access over and across said property: that some of the owners of the property abutting on said alley have plans for improvements which are hindered by the existence of the alley and which, if put into effect, would inure to the benefit of the City in general.
IT IS, THEREFORE RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, that the Mayor and the City Clerk be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to enter into a written agreement with the owners of all the real estate abutting upon said alley to close and abandon said alley which is hereby declared to be not needed for highway purposes and as to which it is hereby found that the welfare of the City will be enhanced and promoted by the closing and abandoning of said alley. Further, that the agreement, after execution, may be properly recorded with the Circuit Clerk of this county, and in accordance with the law, title to the property so abandoned shall vest in the owners adjacent thereto.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of May, 1968.