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AN ORDINANCE CLOSING A PORTION OF ALLEY BETWEEN CHANNEL <br />AVENUE AND MARINER AVENUE. <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, Bennington Properties has made application to <br />vacate, close and discontinue the hereinafter described <br />portion of the alley between Channel Avenue and Mariner <br />Avenue; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, by resolution of this Council adopted January <br />12, 1988, viewers were appointed pursuant to Section <br />15.1-364, Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, to view the <br />hereinafter described portion of said street and to report in <br />writing whether in their opinion any, and if any what, <br />inconvenience would result from discontinuing said portion of <br />the alley between Channel Avenue and Mariner Avenue; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the said viewers have reported in writing that <br />in their opinion no inconvenience would result from closing <br />and discontinuing of said street. <br /> <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the- <br />City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the hereinafter described <br />portion of The alley between Channel Avenue and Mariner <br />Avenue be closed and vacated as a public street. <br /> <br />ALLEY BETWEEN CHANNEL AVENUE AND MARINER AVENUE <br /> <br /> Beginning at a point at the northwest <br />corner of lot 309, as shown on a certain map <br />entitled "Map of West Norfolk, according to <br />Grimes and Hargraves Survey", recorded in thq. <br />Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the <br />City of Chesapeake, Virginia, November 17, <br />1910, Plat Book 10, page 43, which said lot <br />joins a certain 20 foot alley extending from <br />Channel Avenue (formerly Fifth Avenue), and <br />from that point of beginning, easterly along <br />the southern side of said alley, at the <br />northern lot lines of the lots numbered 309, <br />409, 407, 405, 403, 401, and 308, a distance <br />of 340 feet to the westerly line of Mariner <br />Avenue (formerly Fourth Avenue), thence in a <br />northerly direction along the westerly line of <br />Mariner Avenue (formerly Fourth Avenue), a <br />distance of 20 feet, to a point at the <br />southeast corner of Lot 310, thence westerly <br />along the 'north side of said alley, at the <br />southern lot line of the lots numbered 310, <br />400, 402, 404, 406, 408, and 311, a distance <br />of 340 feet to the easterly line of Channel <br /> <br /> <br />