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STREET VACATION - ADJACENT TO YMCA (B)
Ordinance No. 0-08-57, Petition 107SVA-07PB
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, to vacate, abandon and close the right-of-ways, generally described as Northeast 13th Terrace and that portion of Northeast 22nd Avenue lying one foot west of a line between the Southeast corner of lot 14 and the Northeast corner of lot 29 and that portion of Northeast 21st Avenue lying one foot west of a line between the Southeast corner of lot 35 and the Northeast corner of lot 50, as per the plat of the third addition to Carol Estates, as more specifically described in this Ordinance; reserving a public and private utilities easement; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.
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The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STAFF REPORT
The purpose of this request is to vacate the right-of-way of Northeast 13th Terrace and that portion of Northeast 22nd Avenue lying one foot west of a line between the Southeast corner of lot 14 and the Northeast corner of lot 29 and that portion of Northeast 21st Avenue lying west of a line between the Southeast corner of lot 35 and the Northeast corner of lot 50, as per the plat of the third addition to Carol Estates. The City of Gainesville entered into a License Agreement with the North Central Florida Young Men's Christian Association, Inc. (YMCA) in August of 2002 for the use of the unimproved rights-of-way that loop through their property and separate two major sections of the property. The rights-of-way are not paved or maintained and are overgrown with vegetation. One of the stipulations of the agreement was that the City will initiate a petition to vacate the unimproved rights-of-way.
The rights-of-way to be vacated are 50-feet wide. Northeast 22nd Avenue is paved west from Northeast 15th Street to a point adjacent to Lots 15 and 28. Northeast...
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