2021-11 Ordinance Vacating Public Right-of-Way North Mercer Street located North of West Eldorado Street

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STAFF REPORT Decatur City Plan Commission Hearing Date November 5, 2020 Case No. 20-42 Property Location North Mercer Street right-of-way north of West Eldorado Street Request Vacation of the sixty (60) foot Mercer Street right-of-way north of West Eldorado Street that abuts the petitioner's South property line. Petitioner Central IL Development Consortium Representative Chastain &Associates LLC BACKGROUND The petitioner is requesting vacation of a sixty (60) foot street right-of-way north of West Eldorado Street that abuts their South and West property lines. The vacation would enable Central IL Development Consortium and Mueller Company to control the Street ROW and utilize the area as part of the Mueller Company parking lot relocation project. The Street would be improved along with the rest of the property to the North and would serve as one of the entrances to the new Parking Lot. Surrounding Land Use and Zoning Direction Existing Land Use Zoning Comprehensive Plan Subject Property Street Right-of-Way M-1 Employment North Undeveloped M-1 Employment South Commercial B-2 Employment East Commercial M-1 Employment West Undeveloped M-1 Employment STAFF ANALYSIS The subject street right-of-way has a width of 60-feet and has a length of approximately 117-feet, with a total of 7,020-square feet. The petitioner owns the property on the north and west sides of the street to be vacated. Letters were sent to Ameren, Comcast Communications, and AT&T notifying the utility companies of the vacation proposal and no objections to the proposed right-of-way vacation with blanket utility easement were expressed. According to Paragraph 2.2.2 of the Administrative Policy & Procedure Manual: "All property owners with land abutting a piece of property which is under consideration for vacation shall be served proper notice prior to City Council action on the request." The only other adjacent property owner has been notified of the requested ROW vacation. Parallel parking and loading spaces will be provided along the east side of the vacated ROW to serve the adjacent building to the East. Also, Mueller will be providing the adjacent property owner Staff parking spaces in the new parking lot. A copy of the ingress/egress easement Plat for the benefit of the adjacent property owner is attached with this report and will be recorded after the ROW is vacated. The assessed value of surrounding vacant land was utilized to determine a market value per square foot to determine the land value for the Mercer St ROW. That land value is determined to