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~ ORDINAI~CE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN <br />PROPERTY BY THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH UNDER EMINEI~T DOMAIN <br />PROCEEDt~GS PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 258 OF THE ACTS OF <br />ASSEMBLY OF 1958, SAID PROPERTY BEING NECESSARY FOR <br />I~IPROVEMEET OF A PORTION OF PORTSMOUTH BOULEVARD, <br />ROUTE 337~ PARCEL 094. <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth has found it to be <br />necessary to widen and otherwise improve a portion of Portsmouth <br />Boulevard, Route 337, under a Federal Urban Aid Program whereby it <br />is the responsibility of the said City to acquire all necessary <br />additional property; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth has not been able to <br />purchase certain property necessary to this project because the <br />owners thereof have refused to-sell the same to the City at the <br />price set by appraisers employed to value said property; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, <br />reasonably if the <br />possible. <br /> <br />advancement of the work will be delayed un- <br />said property is not made available as soon as <br /> <br /> NOW~ THEREFORE, be it ordained by the Council of the <br />City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the City Attorney is directed <br />to institute eminent domain proceedings, employing counsel for <br />that purpose, against the property hereinafter described, in <br />accordance with and pursuant to Section 23-f of the Charter of <br />the City of Portsmouth (Chapter 258 of the Acts of Assembly of <br />1958), and that the sum of $243.30 be deposited to the credit of <br />the court as provided by law to compensate the owners thereof: <br /> <br />(a) The owners of record are as follows: <br /> Nicholas P. Matthews and Thelma W. Matthews. <br />(b) The interest to be acquired is the fee simple <br /> estate in and to the property hereinafter described. <br />(c) The approximate area is 900 s~aare feet. <br />(d) The description of the property is as foltows= <br /> <br /> That certain parcel <br />of Portsmouth, Virginia, <br />as follows: <br /> <br />of land situate in the City <br />more particularly described <br /> <br /> That part of Lot No. 3, on a plat entitled "Ports- <br />mouth Heights, Norfolk County, Virginia", made by <br />S. W. Armistead, Co E., recorded in the Clerk's Of- <br />lice of the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake <br />(formerly Norfolk County), in Map Book 27, at page <br /> <br /> <br />