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AN ORDINANCE CLOSING A PORTION OF WALDRON AVENUE. WHEREAS, Town and Country Associates, Ltd., has made application to vacate and close a portion of Waldron Avenue; and WHEREAS, by resolution of this Council adopted July 13, 1982, viewers %~ere appointed pursuant to Section 15.1-364, Code of Virginia, 1950, as a~ended, to view the said portion of Wa!dron Avenue and to report in writing whether in their opinion any, and if any, what inconvenience would result from discontinuing the said street; and WHEREAS, said viewers have reported in writing that in their opinion, no inconvenience would result from the closing and discontinuing of said street; and WHEREAS, the said viewers have further recommended that the portion of Waldron Avenue to be closed should be extended to the western boundary of the property known as 2116 Greenwood Drive; and WHEP~EAS, the applicant, Town and Country Associates, Ltd., and J~es Mattox, the owner of property known as 2116 Greenwood Drive, have concurred in the expansion of the area of Waldron Avenue to be closed. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth~ Virginia, that the hereinafter-described portion of Watdron Avenue be closed and vacated as a public street. WALDRON AVENUE Beginning at a point on the southern boundary of Waldron Avenue, said point being 60 feet east of the southeastern intersection of Waldron Avenue and the platted but unimprov- ed street known as Fourth Street, said point also being the intersection of the southern boundary of Waldron Avenue and the western boundary of property known as 2116 Greenwood Drive; thence continuing along the southern boundary of Waldron Avenue in an easterly direction 55 feet to a point at which the southern boundary of Waldron Avenue inter- sects the property line of the property now or formerly owned by Town and Country Associates, Ltd.; thence in a northerly direction along the property line of Town and Country Associates, Ltd., 20 feet to the northern boundary of Waldron Avenue; thence in a westerly direction along the northern boundary of Waldron Avenue 55 feet to a point; thence in a southerly direction 20 feet to the southern boundary of Waldron Avenue, the point of beginning. (S-82-4)