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20 <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ~NAGER TO CONVEY CITY <br />O~ED PROPERTY TO PORTSMOUTH REDEVELOP~ENT AND HOUSING <br />AUTHORITY (SOUTHSIDE BALLARD AVENUE). <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth owns certain here- <br />inafter-described real property on the south side of <br />Ballard Avenue in the Hattonsvilte Redevelopment Project, <br />which property is no longer required for public purposes <br />and is, hereby, declared to be excess property; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, Portsmouth Redevelopment & Housing Authority <br />has arranged for the exchange of said property for other <br />privately o~ned property in the Hattonsville Redevelopment <br />Project in order that said parcels may be consolidated for <br />development purposes; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, ~2.09 (c) of the Charter of the City of <br />Portsmouth provides that real property may be conveyed to <br />the Commonwealth of Virginia or a political subdivision <br />thereof without advertisement or receipt of bids; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority <br />is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia. <br /> <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the <br />City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the City Manager be, and <br />he hereby is, authorized to convey the 'hereinafter-described <br />property to Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority: <br /> <br /> Ail those certain lots, pieces or parcels <br />of land, with the buildings and improve~uents <br />thereon, situate, lying and being in the City <br />of Portsmouth, State of Virginia, known, numbered <br />and designated as part of Lots 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, <br />22 and 24, in Block B; part of Newbie Avenue <br />(now closed) and all of Lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 <br />and 12, in Block A, all as shown on the Plat of <br />"Washington Heights," which said plat is re~ <br />corded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court <br />of the City of Chesapeake, Virginia, in Map Book <br />19, page 90, and more particularly bo~anded and <br />described as follows, to-wit: <br /> <br /> BEGINNING at a point in the dividing line <br />bet%~een Lots 10 and 12, in Block B, as shown on <br />said plat, said point of beginning being 125 fee% <br />south of Baltard Avenue and 150 feet of Laigh Road; <br />thence running southeastwardly oarallel to Laigh <br />Road 175 feet to a ooint in the dividing line <br />between Lots 24 and 26, in Block B, as shown on <br />said plats; thence turning and running northeast- <br />ward!y along the dividing line between Lots 24 <br />and 26, zn Block B, as shown on said plat across <br /> <br /> <br />