File #: ORD. 2022-048    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 2/28/2022 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/21/2022 Final action: 3/28/2022
Title: To close, to public use and travel, an alley in the block bounded by Bellemeade Road, Columbia Street, Afton Avenue, and Lynhaven Avenue, consisting of 11,145? square feet, upon certain terms and conditions.
Patrons: Mayor Stoney (By Request)
Attachments: 1. Ord. No. 2022-048, 2. Staff Report, 3. Plat
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To close, to public use and travel, an alley in the block bounded by Bellemeade Road, Columbia Street, Afton Avenue, and Lynhaven Avenue, consisting of 11,145? square feet, upon certain terms and conditions.
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THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
? 1. That an alley in the block bounded by Bellemeade Road, Columbia Street, Afton Avenue, and Lynhaven Avenue, consisting of approximately 11,145 square feet, is hereby closed to public use and travel as a right-of-way of the City of Richmond, as shown enclosed with bold lines on a drawing prepared by the Department of Public Works, designated as DPW Drawing No. N-28981, dated January 26, 2022, and entitled "Proposed Closing to Public Use and Travel of Public Alley Located in Block Bounded by Bellemeade Road, Columbia Street, Afton Avenue, and Lynhaven Avenue," hereinafter referred to as "the Drawing," a copy of which drawing is attached to this ordinance.
? 2. That this ordinance, as to the closing of the right-of-way identified above, shall be in force as provided in section 4.09 of the Charter of the City of Richmond (2020), as amended, and shall become effective only when, within 12 months from the day this ordinance is adopted:
(a) The applicant obtains consent to the closing from each of the owners of land, buildings or structures from whom consent is required under section 24-314 of the Code of the City of Richmond (2020), as amended, which consents shall be in writing, approved as to form by the City Attorney, and filed in the office of the City Clerk.
(b) The applicant makes arrangements satisfactory to public utility or public service corporations whose properties or facilities are in the right-of-way area to be closed either for the removal, relocation or abandonment thereof or for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair thereof, evidence of which shall be in writing, approved as to form by the City Attorney, and filed in the office of the City Clerk.
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