File #: ORD. 2021-357    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 12/14/2021 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/18/2022 Final action: 1/24/2022
Title: To close, to public travel, an unimproved portion of Hanover Avenue in the block bounded by Three Chopt Road and the City's corporate boundary with Henrico County, consisting of 6,219? square feet, and to designate and incorporate such portion of Hanover Avenue into Bandy Field Park. (1st District)
Patrons: Mayor Stoney
Attachments: 1. Ord. No. 2021-357, 2. Staff Report Hanover Ave Easement Vacation
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To close, to public travel, an unimproved portion of Hanover Avenue in the block bounded by Three Chopt Road and the City's corporate boundary with Henrico County, consisting of 6,219? square feet, and to designate and incorporate such portion of Hanover Avenue into Bandy Field Park. (1st District)
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WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 2014-028-35, adopted March 24, 2014, the City granted a conservation and open-space easement (hereinafter referred to as "the Conservation Easement") for the City-owned property generally known as Bandy Field Park to the Friends of Bandy Field, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 2020-R067, the Council requested, in part, that the Chief Administrative Officer cause the planned, but not constructed streets that are currently excluded from the Conservation Easement to be extinguished and incorporated into Bandy Field Park;
NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
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(a) pursuant to the authority granted to the City by section 2.03(b) of the Charter of the City of Richmond (2020), as amended, and notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 24, Article IV of the Code of the City of Richmond (2020), as amended, to the contrary, an unimproved portion of Hanover Avenue in the block bounded by Three Chopt Road and the City's corporate boundary with Henrico County, consisting of approximately 6,219 square feet, as shown enclosed with bold lines on a drawing prepared by the Department of Public Works, designated as DPW Drawing No. N-28975, dated October 8, 2021, and entitled "Proposed Closing to Public Use and Travel of Hanover Avenue between Three Chopt Road and City's Corporate Limits with Henrico County," a copy of which drawing is attached to this ordinance, is hereby closed to public travel as a right-of-way of the City of Richmond.
(b) Such street, as presently existing, is deemed to be no longer needed for the public convenience for use as a street, there existing a superseding public ne...

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