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AN ORDINANCE TO CLOSE PORTIONS OF SPENCER AV~UE, SERPELL AVENUE, WESLEY STREET, HILL AVENUE, COTTON STREET, STEWART AVENUE, DETROIT STREET. WOOD STREET, BOULEVARD, QUEBEC STREET, MONROE AVENUE, STEWART STREET, RODGERS AVENUE, ELIZABET~ STREET, JACKSON AVENUE ("B" AVENUE), CONLMERCE STREET~ PORTLAND STREET, NORTHWEST STREET, TWELFTH AVI~NUE. ELEVENTH AVENUE AND ~-ACARTHUR AVENUE TNEREIN DESCRIBED, WHICH ARE WITHIN THE PROPOSED RIGHT OF 'NAY OF THE ACCESS ROAD FOR THE SECOND ELIZABETH RIVER TUNNEL, PROVIDING FOR THE RELOCATION OR ACCON~ODATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES SITUATE THEREIN, AND PROVIDING FOR THE PROVISION BY THE ELIZABETH RIVER TUNT4EL DISTRICT OF CERTAIN OTHER ROAD WORK NECESSARY BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SAID ACCESS ROAD. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia: Section t: That the hereinafter described portions of the specified streets, which lie within the proposed right of way of the access road for the second Elizabeth River Tunnel or which must be dead-ended thereat ~o assure proper traffic control and safety, be, and the same are, hereby vacated and closed sub- ject ~o the conditions hereinafter expressed: (a) Spencer Avenue, from a point 100 feet south of the southern line of Carolina Avenue to the northern line of Southern Avenue. (b) Southern Avenue, from its eastern extremity to the center line of Page Street extended. (c) Serpeli Avenue, from the southern line of Carolins Avenue ~o the northern line of Southern Avenue. (d) Wesley Street, from the eastern line of Hill Avenue to its eastern extremity. (e) Hill Avenue, from the southern line of Wesley Street to Railroad Avenue, consisting of three disjointed segments. (f) Cotton Street. between Hill Avenue and Stewart Avenue. (g) Stewart Avenue, between Wesley Street and Detroit Street. (h) Detroit Street, from a point 54 feet east of the eastern line of Jackson Avenue to its eastern extremity. (i) Wood Street, between Jackson Avenue and Hill Avenue. (J) Boulevard, between Jackson Avenue and Hill Avenue. (k) Quebec Street, fr~m a point 175 feet west of the western line of Booker Btree~ to its western extremity.