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R-01-18 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A DEED OF CONVEYANCE TO THE PORTSMOUTH REDEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING AUTHORITY FOR THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE SHEA TERRACE SCHOOL. BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the City Manager be, and he hereby is, authorized to execute and deliver to the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority ("PRHA") a deed of conveyance for the following described property, commonly known as the Shea Terrace School: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, being described as follows: Beginning at the southeastern intersection of Ann Street, formerly Arlington Street with Constitution Avenue, formerly Sixth Avenue; thence South along Constitution Avenue, to and across Elizabeth Street, 385 feet; thence easterly to the line of the land formerly belonging to Mary Ann Hutchesom thence along the line of the land formerly to Mary Ann Hutcheson, S 83° 5' E to Jamestown Avenue, formerly Fifth Avenue and formerly called Virginia Avenue; thence northerly along Jamestown Avenue to and across Elizabeth Street to Ann Street; thence westerly along Ann Street to the point of beginning; said parcel of land is composed of Lots Numbered 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 in Block "G", and Lots Numbered 5,6 and 7 in Block "D", and a part of Elizabeth Street, as shown on the plat of "Shea Terrace", which said plat is duly recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia in Map Book I, at page 33, and is a part of the lands conveyed to Charles V. Shea and others by deed of Charles E. Nash, dated October 15, 1885, and duly recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake (formerly Norfolk County), Virginia in Deed Book 152, at page 215, and by deed of Charles E. Nash et ux to Charles V. Shea and others, dated September 23, 1890, and duly recorded in the aforementioned Clerk's Office in Deed Book 160, at page 158; the said portion of Elizabeth Street having been vacated by instrument duly recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth in Deed Book 87A, at page 323. TAX MAP 74 Parcel 85 and TAX MAP 194 UNNUMBERED. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager is authorized to execute and deliver such other instruments and assurances as may be needed to effect this property conveyance. The Manager may reserve such interests and impose such conditions as may be necessary to protect the City's interests, and he shall from time to time communicate to PRHA the desires of the City for the disposition and best and highest use of the subject property.