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AN ORDINANCE CLOSING THE FOLLOWING STREETS: (1) A PORTION OF <br />MEANDER ROAD FROM T~E NORFOLK & PORTSMOUTH BELT LINE RAILROAD <br />NORTH OF ITS TEt~4INUS NEAR LONDON BOULEVARD; (2) A PORTION OF <br />GLASGOW STREET FROM THE NORFOLK & PORTSMOUTH BELT LINE RAIL- <br />ROAD WEST TO ITS TERMINUS NEAR KIRN AVENUE AND LONDON BOULEVARD; <br />(3) A PORTION OF LOMBARD STREET FROM KIRN AVENUE EAST APPROXI- <br />MATELY 260 FEET AND FROM KIRN AVENUE WEST APPROXIMATELY 420 FEET; <br />(4) A PORTION OF QUEEN STREET PROM VIRGINIA AVENUE WEST TO ITS <br />INTERSECTION WITH MT. VERNON AVENUE; AND (5) A PORTION OF KIRN <br />AVENUE FROM HIG~ STREET NORTH TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH LONDON <br />BOULEVARD° (S-76-11) · <br /> <br /> WHEREAS~ Portsmouth Redevelopment & Housing <br />Authority has made application to vacate~ close and discontinue <br />the hereinafter described portions of certain streets; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, by Resolution of this Council adopted <br />May 25, 1976, viewers were appointed pursuant to Section <br />15.1-364, Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended~ to view the <br />hereinafter described portion of said streets~ and to <br />report in writing whether in their opinion any, and if any, <br />what inconvenience would result from discontinuing the below <br />described streets; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS~ the said viewers have reported in writing <br />that in their opinion no inconvenience would result from the <br />closing and discontinuing of said streets. <br /> <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of <br />the City of Portsmouth~ Virginia~ that those portions of said <br />streets hereinafter described, be closed and vacated as public <br />streets: <br /> <br /> Ail those certain pieces or parcels of <br />land situate, lying and being in the Ci~ of <br />Portsmouth, Virginia and comprising those <br />portions of Kirn Avenue~ Queen Street~ Lombard <br />Street (formerly London Street), Glasgow <br />Street and Meander Road which are within an <br />area bounded on the north by the southern <br />right-of-way line of London Boulevard~ on <br />the east by the western right-of- <br />way line of Virginia Avenue and the <br />western line of the property owned <br />by the Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line <br />Railroad, said property line running <br />north O3°54'O1'' west from the northern <br />right-of-way line of High Street, and <br />the northern prolongation of the said <br /> <br /> <br />