* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: The Council President
At the request of: The Administration (Department of Public Works)
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Sale of Property - An 85-Foot Wide Portion of Fort Avenue
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to sell, at either public or private sale, all its interest in a certain parcel of land known as the former bed of an 85-foot wide portion of Fort Avenue, extending from Fort McHenry National Monument, Northwesterly 130.3 feet, and no longer needed for public use; and providing for a special effective date.
Body
BY authority of
Article V - Comptroller
Section 5(b)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)
SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That, in accordance with Article V, § 5(b) of the City Charter, the City Comptroller may sell, at either public or private sale, all the interest of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore in a certain parcel of land known as the former bed of an 85-foot wide portion of Fort Avenue, extending from Fort McHenry National Monument, Northwesterly 130.3 feet, and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning for the same at the point formed by the intersection of the southwest side of Fort Avenue, 82.5 feet wide, and the former bed of the southeast side of Fort Avenue, as realigned and widened to a width of 167.5 feet, said point of beginning being distant 58.58 feet northwesterly measured along the southwest side of said Fort Avenue, 82.5 feet wide from the southeasternmost extremity thereof, and running thence binding on the southeast side of the former bed of said Fort Avenue, 167.5 feet wide, Southwesterly 85.0 feet to intersect the southwest side of the former bed of last said Fort Avenue; thence binding on the southwest side of the former bed of last said Fort Avenue, Northwesterly 130.3 feet to intersect the northwest side of the former bed of last said Fort Avenue; thence binding on the northwest side of the former bed of last said Fort Avenue, Northeasterly 85.0 feet to intersect the southwest side of Fort Avenue, as originally laid out 82.5 feet wide, and thence binding on the southwest side of last said Fort Avenue, Southeasterly 130.3 feet to the place of beginning.
Subject to a full width Perpetual Easement for all Municipal Utilities and Services, not to be abandoned, over the entire hereinabove described parcel of land.
This property being no longer needed for public use.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That no deed may pass under this Ordinance unless the deed has been approved by the City Solicitor.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted.
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