7195 VACATING A PORTION OF A STREET AND A PORTION OF TWO ALLEYS (RAILROAD AVENUE)

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'' ' ' � � 10332`74 r- � =� g��.939 �a�r 543 �r � _-� � ` ORD'INANCE NO. 7195 AN ORDINANCE VACATING A PORTION OF A STRE�T AND A PORTION OF TWO ALLEYS W'HEREAS, portions of Railroad Avenue have been vacated in such a manner as to leave the unvacated portion of said Avenue as described below isolated and abandoned as a. street for all practi.cal pu.rposes so that the unvacated portion is no longer nec�ssary or 3esirabl� for use as a Pu1�1ic street or_ way, and the portions of two public alleys , as described below, which intersect with the unvacated portion of said avenue are likewise isolated and abandoned as alley ways, and WHEREAS, the public interest will be subserved by vacating said pori�ions of said Avenue and said alleys , as described below, and the public urill be relieved from the further burden and responsibility for maintairiing the same. NOW THEREFURE, BE IT ORDAINFD BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section l. That the portion of Railroad Avenue and the portions of two public alleys intersecting with Railroad Avenue, said po-rtions of street and alyeys being legally described as : Commencing at the Northwest corner of Lot 5 in Block 2 of E. B. Dur.fee ' s 2nd Addition to the City of Decatur, as per Plat recorded in Book 22, Page 499 of the Records in the Recorder' s Office of_ Macon County, Illin.ois, thence West to the Northeast corner of Lot 6 in Block 2 of said Addition, thence South along the East lot lines of Lots E , 7 , 10 and 11 in Bloc;c 2 of said Additi.on to a point on the South right-of-v�ay line of P.ailroad Avenue, which point is 26 feet South of the Southeast corn�r of said Lot 11, thence East along the South right-of-way line of Railroad Avenue, 468 feet to a point 2G feet South of the Southeast corner of Lot 12 in Black 2 a� E. B. Dur.fc:e ' s 1st Addition to the City of Dccatur, as per P1�zt recorded in Bo�k 22, Page 4G1 of the Records