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144 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO CONVEY PROPERTY TO PORTSMOUTH REDEVELOPMENT & HOUSING AUTHORITY (COURT STREET AT LONDON BOULEVARD). WHEREAS, the City owns longer necessary [or public to be excess property; and certain property which is no purposes and is, hereby, declared WHEREAS, Portsmouth Redevelopment & Housing Authority owns certain property adjacent thereto described as disposition parcel 47, Crawford Urban Renewal Project; and WHEREAS, Portsmouth Redevelopment & Housing Authority has made arrangements with Court Street Baptist Church to purchase said property subject to an approved landscape and use ~tan; and WHEREAS, the appraised value for the City-owned property is $575.00; and WHEREAS, Section 2.09(c) of the Charter of the City of Portsmouth provides that property may be sold to the Commonwealth of Virginia or a political subdivision thereof without advertisement and receipt of bids; and WHEREAS, Portsmouth Redevelopment & Housing Authority is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the ~ity Manager be, and he hereby is, authorized to convey the hereinafter-described property to Portsmouth Redevelopment & Housing Authority for the sum of $575.00, to-wit: Ail that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, bounded and described as follows: beginning at the southeastern intersection of Court Street and London Boulevard, thence along the southern boundary of London Boulevard north 87° 13' 12" east 58.61' to a point; thence south and parallel with Court Street north 3° 38' 34" west 21.31' to a point; thence west and parallel with London Boulevard north 87° 13' 12" west 58.61' to a point on the eastern boundary of Court Street; thence along the eastern boundary of Court Street north 3° 38' 34" west 21.31' to the point of beginning.