95-26 Vacating a Street Clubview Drive

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r ORDINANCE NO. 95 — AN 5 —AN ORDINANCE VACATING A STREET - CLUBVIEW DRIVE - WHEREAS, a request has been received from the owners of properties abutting thereon requesting vacation by the City Council of the street known as Clubview Drive, said street being more particularly described as follows: SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND HEREBY MADE A PART HEREOF; and WHEREAS, said street is no longer useful to the public or to the City; and, WHEREAS, the public interest will be subserved by vacating said street and the public will be relieved from any further burden or responsibility for maintaining said street. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That the above described street be, and the same is hereby, vacated as a public street inasmuch as the same is no longer required for public use and the public interest will be subserved by such vacation, said street being shown on the plat thereof hereto attached and hereby made a part hereof. Section 2. That there is hereby reserved in, over, along and under the above-described street to the City of Decatur, Illinois, and to the public and to those utilities and companies as the case may be owning public service facilities, mains, sewers, telephone and electric or other public utilities, such property, rights of way and easements as are or may be necessary or desirable for continuing public service by means of such facilities and for the maintenance, renewal and reconstruction thereof with the right of ingress and egress for such purposes. Section 3. That the benefits which will be accrued to the owners of abutting properties by reason of the vacation aforesaid is determined to be, in the judgment of the Council, equal to the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000). Section 4. That the vacation herein provided for is made upon the express condition that there shall be paid to the City of Decatur, Illinois, by or on behalf of the owners of the properties