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1986 115 AN ORDINANCE CLOSING A PORTION OF THE FOLLOWING STREETS: SUMMIT AVENUE, CENTRE AVENUE, WILCOX AVENUE, DEWEY STREET, CEDAR AVENUE AND OLYMPIA AVENUE, ALL WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS FREDERICK MILITARY ACADEMY. WHEREAS, Frederick Foundation, Inc., has made application to vacate, close and discontinue the hereinafter-described portions of certain streets; and WHEREAS, by resolution adopted by this Council on August 26, 1986, viewers were appointed pursuant to Section 15.1-364, Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, to view the hereinafter-described portion of said streets and to report in writing whether in their opinion any, and if any what, inconvenience would result from discontinuing the said streets; and WHEREAS, the said viewers have reported in writing in their opinion no inconvenience would result from the closing and discontinuing of said street. that NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the hereinafter-described portions of said streets be closed and vacated as public streets. Summit Avenue From its point of intersection with Dewey Avenue (as shown on the Plat of Property of The Virginia Company as recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, in Map Book 1, Page 97) on the west, to a point 150 feet west of LaNsing Avenue on the east. Center Avenue From its point of intersection with Dewey Avenue, as shown on that plat as above described, on the west, to a point 125 feet west of Lansing Avenue, on the east. Wilcox Avenue From its point of intersection with Dewey Avenue, as shown on the plat above described, on the west, to its terminus on the east as shown on the Plat of I.O. Ivey, which plat is duly recorded in the Clerk's Office aforesaid in Map Book 1, Page 96, said point also being