5907 VACATING A PORTION OF STREET - SOUTH MAIN STREET

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�j � �; J s _ . �� ORDINANCE NO. � ORDINANCE VACATING A PORTION OF STR�ET - SOUTH MAI1V STREET �REAS, a petition has been received from MARION B. JANES AND OTHERS, all of whom are the owners of all property abutting the reon, requesting vacation by the City Council of a portion of that certain street in the City of Decatur, Illinois, commonly known as South Main Street, said portion of said street being more particularly described as: Beginning at a point 145.7 feet East and 19.8 feet North of the Southwest corner of Lot 7 of the Subdivision o£ the NE 4 of NE 4 of Sect ion 22, Town ship I6 North, Range 2 East of the 3rd P.M. , as per Plat recorded in Book 22 pa ge 147 of the Records in the Recorder 's Office of Macon County, Ill�noi.s; thence NoYthwesterly 170.4 feet to a point on the southerly right-of-way line of the Illinois Central Railroad, 210 feet nor�theast of the southwest corner of said Lot 7, thence northeast along the R.O.W, line of the railroad 79.0 feet, thence southeasterly 234.2 feet to the point of beginning. and, ��EIERFAS, the Decatur City Plan Commission held a public hearing upon said petition on August 2, 1973, and did thereafter recommend to the Council that the prayer of said petition be granted and said por- tion of said street be vacated as requested; and, Wf-I�REAS, said portion of said street although originally laid out as a street within a subdivision of the City of Deca�ur, Illinois, upon the relocation and widening of South Main Street some years ago said por- tion of said street was abandoned for ,�se as a street by the City and since that time has not been opened or improved as a public street ; an d, Z+1F�REAS, said portion of said street is no longer useful to the pub- lic or to the City or to the owners os property abutting thereon as a street; and, WI-IEREAS, the public interest wi11 be subserved by vacating said por- tion of said street and the public will be relieved from any further bur- den or responsib ility for opening, improving or maintaining said portion of said street.