File #: ORD-89:1288    Version: 1 Name: Alley abandonment between Block and Leggett Streets
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/17/1989 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 7/17/1989
Title: AN ORDINANCE TO VACATE A TWENTY FOOT ALLEY BETWEEN BLOCK STREET AND LIGGETT STREET
Indexes: Abandonment
Attachments: 1. Plat, 2. Utility letters
Related files: RES-89:1594, ABAN-033, ABAN-033, MIN-89:538
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AN ORDINANCE TO VACATE A TWENTY FOOT ALLEY BETWEEN BLOCK STREET AND LIGGETT STREET
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council for the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:     
 
WHEREAS,   the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission has recommended that the City Council for the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas vacate and abandon the 15 foot alley running East and West between Block Street and Liggett Street in the 1300 Block North of Aggie Road. Between Lot 2 of the Replat of Lots 7-44 in Block 1 of M. R. Carson's Addition- Plat recorded in Deed Record 48 at page 83 of the Records of Craighead County, Arkansas, and the 15 foot alley running East and West between Lot 4 and Lots 1 through 3 of the Records of Craighead County, Arkansas.
 
WHEREAS, after due notice as required by law, the council has at the time and place mentioned in the notice, heard all persons desiring to be heard on the question and has ascertained that the alley or the portion thereof, hereinbefore described as heretofore been dedicated to the public use as an alley herein described; has not been actually used by the public generally for a period at lease five (5) years subsequent to the filing of the plat; and that the public interest and welfare will not be adversely affected by the abandonment of such alley.  
 
SECTION 1:   The City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, hereby releases, vacates and abandons all of its rights, together with the rights of the public generally, in and to the alleys designated as follows:
The 15 foot alley running East and West in 1300 Block North of Aggie Road between Block and Liggett Streets, in Block 1 M. R. Carson's Addition to the Town of Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas and the 15 foot alley running East of Liggett Street in M. R. Carson's Addition to the Town of Jonesboro, Craighead, County, Arkansas, together with all easements.
 
SECTION 2:   A copy of the ordinance duly certified by the City Clerk shall be filed in the office of the Recorder of the County and recorded in the deed records of the County.
 
SECTION 3:   This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.
 
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 17th day of July, 1989.