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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 - The Former Beds of Certain Streets and Alleys Lying Within the Area Bounded by North Avenue, Thomas Avenue, Presbury Street, and the CSX Transportation, Inc. Railroad Right-of-Way
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to sell, at either public or private sale, all its interest in certain parcels of land known as the former beds of certain streets and alleys lying within the area bounded by North Avenue, Thomas Avenue, Presbury Street, and the CSX Transportation, Inc. Railroad Right-of-Way 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 certain parcels of land known as the former beds of certain streets and alleys lying within the area bounded by North Avenue, Thomas Avenue, Presbury Street, and the CSX Transportation, Inc. Railroad Right-of-Way, and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning for Parcel No. 1 at the point formed by the intersection of the south side of a 10-foot alley, laid out in the rear of the properties known as Nos. 2527 through 2551/2553 W. North Avenue and the east side of the former bed of Whitmore Avenue, 66 feet wide, and running thence binding on the east side of the former bed of said Whitmore Avenue, Southerly 238.5 feet, more or less, to the southernmost extremity of the former bed of said Whitmore Avenue; thence binding on the southernmost extremity of the former bed of said Whitmore Avenue, Westerly 66.0 feet, to intersect the west side of the former bed of said Whitmore Avenue; thence binding on the west side of the former bed of said Whitmore Avenue, Northerly 238.5 feet, more or less, to intersect the line of the south side of said 10-foot alley, if projected westerly, and thence binding reversely on said line, so projected, Easterly 66.0 feet to the place of beginning.
Beginning for Parcel No. 2 at the point formed by the intersection of the north side of the former bed of a 10-foot alley, laid out in the rear of the properties known as Nos. 2601 through 2607 W. North Avenue, and the west side of Whitmore Avenue, 66 feet wide, said point of beginning being distant southerly 80.0 feet, more or less, measured along the west side of said Whitmore Avenue from the south side of North Avenue, 100 feet wide, and running thence binding on the west side of said Whitmore Avenue, Southerly 10.0 feet to intersect the south side of the former bed of said 10-foot alley; thence binding on the south side of the former bed of said 10-foot alley, Westerly 60.9 feet, more or less, to the westernmost extremity of the former bed of said 10-foot alley; thence binding on the westernmost extremity of the former bed of said 10-foot alley, Northerly 10.0 feet to intersect the north side of the former bed of said 10-foot alley, and thence binding on the north side of the former bed of said 10-foot alley, Easterly 60.9 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning.
Beginning for Parcel No. 3 at the point formed by the intersection of the east side of the former bed of Whitmore Avenue, 66 feet wide, and the north side of the former bed of Westwood Avenue, 33 feet wide, and running thence binding on the north side of the former bed of said Westwood Avenue, Easterly 95.0 feet, more or less, to intersect the line of the west side of a 20-foot alley, laid out in the rear of the properties known as Nos. 1801 through 1829 Whitmore Avenue, if projected southerly; thence binding on the line of the west side of said 20-foot alley, so projected, Southerly 33.0 feet, to intersect the south side of the former bed of said Westwood Avenue; thence binding on the south side of the former bed of said Westwood Avenue, Westerly 95.0 feet, more or less, to intersect the east side of the former bed of said Whitmore Avenue, and thence binding on the east side of the former bed of said Whitmore Avenue, Northerly 33.0 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.
These properties 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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