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AN ORDINANCE CLOSING A PORTION OF TROTTER STREET, HYMAN STREET. ~HY~ STREET (~PLATTED)~ DUNCAN STREET~ BAXTER STREET AND TWO PRIVATE LANES. WtIEREAS, the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, desires to vacate, close and discontinue the hereinafter described portion of Trotter Street, HI;man Street, Hyman Street (Unplatted), Duncan Street, Baxter Street and Two Private Lanes; and WHEREAS, by a resolution of this Council adopted on June 28, 1995, viewers were appointed pursuant to Section 15.1-364 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, to view the hereinafter described portion of said streets, lanes and report in writing whether in their opinion any, and if any, what inconvenience would result from discontinuing said portion of Trotter Street, Hyman Street, Hyman Stree~ (Unptatted), Duncan Street, Baxter street and Two Private Lanes; and WHEREAS, the said viewers have reported in writing that in their opinion, no inconvenience would result mn the closing and discontinuing of that portion of Trotter Street, Hyman Street, HI;man Street (Unplatted), Duncan Street, Baxter Street and Two Private Lanes. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the portion of said street and lanes hereinafter described be closed and vacated as public sureens and lanes. TROTTER STREET: That portion of Trotter Street south of Ballard Avenue and lying between the southern right of way line of Ballard Avenue (which right of way line is 70 feet south of the centerline of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad track , and the exnenslon across Trotter Street of the northerly line of the property conveyed no Portsmouth Redevelopmenn and Housing Authority by deed of Mamie Blanchard Pierce, et vmr, dated November 3, 1982 and recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, in Deed book 839, at page 620 HYMAN STP~EET: That portion of Hyman Street north of the south side of Duncan Street and lying between the south side of Duncan Street and south side of Ballard Avenue, being a portion of Hyman Street shown on the Plat of Hyman Ville, which plat ms recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake, Virginia, in Map Book 5, page 63.