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ORDINANCE TO VACATE AND ABANDON AN ALLEY IN KNIGHT’S FIRST ADDITION
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BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Jonesboro. Arkansas:
WHEREAS, a Petition was duly filed with the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas on the 20th day of July, 1959, asking the City Council to vacate and abandon an alley between the North Half and the South Half of Sharp’s Subdivision of Lot 15, Knight’s First Addition to the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, as shown by a plat of said Block as same appears in Deed Record 48, page 118 in the office of the Circuit Clerk at Jonesboro, Arkansas, designated as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the Southeast Corner of Lot 1 of Sharp’s Subdivision of the North Half of Lot 15, Knight’s First Addition to the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, thence South to the Northeast corner of Lot 1, Sharp’s Subdivision of the South Half of Lot 15, Knight’s First Addition, thence West to the Northwest corner of Lot 5, Sharp’s Subdivision of the South Half of Lot 15 of Knight’s First Addition, thence North to the Southwest corner of Lot 6 Sharp’s Subdivision of the North Half of Lot 15 of Knight’s First Addition, thence East to the point of beginning, being a strip of land ten feet North and South, and 300 feet East and West lying between Haven and Smith Streets, in the City of Jonesboro.
WHEREAS, after due notice as required by law, the City 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 hereinabove described has heretofore been dedicated to the public use as an alley; has not been actually used by the public generally for a period of five years prior to the filing of the petition for abandonment; and all owners of property abutting the alley to be vacated have filed with the City Council their written consent to such abandonment; and that public interest and welfare will not be adversely affected by the abandonment of such alley;
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