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AN ORDINANCE VACATING A CERTAIN PORTION OF AN UNNAMED STREET RUNNING SOUTH FROM JOHNSON AVENUE PARALLEL AND ADJACENT TO THIRD AND FOURTH STREETS AND PROVIDING FOR THE EXECUTION OF QUITCLAIM DEED THERETO
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WHEREAS, The City Water & Light Plant of the City of Jonesboro, a municipal utility, is the owner of all property adjacent to an undesignated street which runs south from Johnson Avenue in Barritt’s Addition to the City of Jonesboro, which street although dedicated has not been used and is not now needed for use as a street for vehicular traffic, and does not afford access to any particular point but dead ends at the Frisco Railway; and
WHEREAS, it is desirable and necessary for future expansion of the facilities of the City Water & Light Plant that such street right-of-way be vacated and abandoned, all of which will be in the best interests of the City:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas that under the provisions of Ark. Stats. Annotated 19-2304, the City of Jonesboro does hereby vacate and abandon the following described portion of an unnamed dedicated street, to-wit:
A street 50 feet in width connecting with Johnson Avenue on its north end and running South to a dead end at the Frisco Railroad, on the East side being adjacent to Lot 13 of Block “1” of Barritt’s Addition to the City of Jonesboro and Block “2” of Portia Lumber Addition, and on the West side being adjacent to Lots 11, 12, 13, 14 and 1 of Block “2” of Barritt’s Addition to the City of Jonesboro
Which dedicated street has never been open to the public and is not required for corporate purposes.
Said property shall revert to the owner of the adjacent property and the Mayor and City Clerk are hereby authorized and directed to execute a Quitclaim Deed to said property to said property to this owner, if necessary.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 6th day of April, 1964.