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AN ORDINANCE CLOSING A PORTION OF NASRViL?.R AVE.~=JE LOCATED BETWEEN RANDOLPH STREET AND MT~ OLIVE CFi~ETERY (S-73-!7). WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, has made ap- plication to vacate, close and discontinue the h~reinafter des- cribed portion of Nashville Avenue; an~ WHEREAS, by resolution of t~s Council, adopted January 8~ 1974, viewers were appointed pursuant to Section 15.1-364 of the Code of Virginia (1950) as amende~ to view the hereinafter portions of the said street and to report'in w~iting whether in their opinion, any, and if any~ wha~ inconvenience would result from discontinuing the below d~scribed street; and WHEREAS, the said viewers have reported in writing that in their opinion no inconvenience would result from closing and discontinuing said street° NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAII~ED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that that portion of Nashville Avenue hereinafter described, be closed and vacated as a public' street. Ail that certain piece or parcel of land, lying and being in the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, and comprising that portion of Nashville Avenue described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the western right of way line of Nashville Avenue which is 95.66 feet north of the northwest inter- section of Nashville Avenue and Randolph Street; thence S 85~40' E a distance of 60.00 feet, mor~ or less, to a point in the eastern r~ght of way line of Nashville Ave- nue; thence northerly along t~e eastern right of way line of Nashville Avenue 174.42 feet¥.more or less to the southern boundary line of Mt. Olive Cemetery; thence N 79~22'14" E along said boundary line a distance of 60.36 feet to a point in the western right of way line of Nashville Avenue; thence southerly along said western right of way line a dis- tance of 181.04 feet to the point of begin- ning. Adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, at a meeting held February 26, 1974o Teste: City Clerk