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AN ORDINANCE CLOSING A PORTION OF THE FOLLOWING STREETS: LINDSAY AVENUE, G STREET, IVEY PLACE, PARADISE STREET, AND LEE STREET. WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, has made application to vacate, close and discontinue the hereinafter- described portion of certain streets; and WHEREAS, by a Resolution adopted by this Council on July 27, 1982, viewers were appointed pursuant to S15.1-364, Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, to view the hereinafter- described portions of said streets and to report in writing 'whether in their opinion any, and if any, what inconvenience would result from discontinuing said streets; and WHEREAS, the said viewers have reported in writing that in their opinion no inconvenience would result from the closing and discontinuing of said streets. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that those portions of the said streets hereinafter-described be' closed and vacated as public streets. PARADISE STREET Ail that portion of Paradise Street be- ginning at the west intersection of Paradise Street and Ivey Place as the same existed at the time of closure of Ivey Place by ordinance adopted December 1955 and extending in a west- erly direction to the southern boundary of the property acquired by the City of Portsmouth by deed of Jean McLean Davis recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Ports- mouth in Deed Book 797, page 571. LEE STREET Ail that portion of Lee Street beginning at the point of intersection of Lee Street and the southern boundary of Elliott Avenue and extending in a southerly direction to the southern boundary of property acquired by the City of Portsmouth from Jean McLean Davis recorded in Deed Book 797, page 571 in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth.