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AN ORDINANCE CLOSING A PORTION OF CHESTNUT STREET. WHEREAS, Robert L. Turner, Ltd., has made application vacate, close and discontinue the hereinafter-described portion of Chestnut Street; and to WHEREAS,'by resolution adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth on May 13, 1986, viewers were appointed pursuant to Section 15.1-364, Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, to view the hereinafter-described portion of said street and to report in writing whether in their opinion any, and if any what, inconvenience would result from discontinuing sa~d portion of Chestnut Street; and WHEREAS, the said viewers have reported in writing that in their opinion no inconvenience would result from the closing and discontinuing of said street. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City el- Portsmouth, Virginia, that the hereinafter-described portion of Chestnut Street be closed and vacated as a public street. Chestnut Street That certain strip or portion of Chestnut Street as the same is shown upon the Dlat of Brighton, duly of record, which said strip is bounded as follows: Beginning at the southwest intersection of Chestnut Street and Portsmouth Boulevard (formerly Gosport Road) as the same are presently constituted and from thence running along Portsmouth Boulevard N 78° 08' W a distanc~ of 36.17 feet to an iron pin at the intersection of Chestnut Street and Gosport Road as the same are shown in the Plat of Brighton; thence N 2° 50' 50" W along Chestnut Street (as the same is shown in the Plat of Brighton) a distance of 147.43 feet to an iron pin at the northeast corner of Lot 15' in Block 59 as shown on said plat of Brighton; thence S 87° 04' 07" E a distance.of 34.65 feet to a point in the w~sterly line of the right-of-way of Chestnut Street as the same is presently constituted~and thence S 2° 26' 35" W a distance of 153.06 feet to the point of beginning.