Baltimore City Council
File #: 12-0070    Version: 0 Name: City Streets - Closing - 15-Foot Alley
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 4/30/2012 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 6/18/2012
Enactment #: 12-31
Title: City Streets - Closing - 15-Foot Alley FOR the purpose of condemning and closing a 15-foot alley, laid out in the rear of the properties known as 4406 and 4410 Pall Mall Road, as shown on Plat 332-A-28A in the Office of the Department of General Services; and providing for a special effective date.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: City Streets - Closing, Closing, Streets
Attachments: 1. 12-0070 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. DGS - 12-0070.pdf, 3. Transportation - 12-0070.pdf, 4. HCD - 12-0070.pdf, 5. 12-0070 - 3rd Reader.pdf, 6. Planning - 12-0070.pdf

                     * 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 General Services)                                         

                     A BILL ENTITLED

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

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City Streets - Closing - 15-Foot Alley

 

FOR the purpose of condemning and closing a 15-foot alley, laid out in the rear of the properties known as 4406 and 4410 Pall Mall Road, as shown on Plat 332-A-28A in the Office of the Department of General Services; and providing for a special effective date.

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BY authority of

   Article I - General Provisions

   Section 4

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   Article II - General Powers

   Sections 2, 34, 35

   Baltimore City Charter

   (1996 Edition)

 

   SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Department of General Services shall proceed to condemn and close a 15-foot alley laid out in the rear of the properties known as 4406 and 4410 Pall Mall Road,, and more particularly described as follows:

 

Beginning for Parcel No. 1 at the point formed by the intersection of the northeast side of a 15-foot alley, laid out in the rear of the properties known as Nos. 4406 and 4410 Pall Mall Road and the northwest side of a 12-foot alley, laid out in the rear of the property known as Lot No. 1 of Block 3349 as referred to among the Real Property Records of the Property Location Section of the Department of General Services of the City of Baltimore through the property known as No. 2622 Loyola Northway, said point of beginning being distant southwesterly 148.9 feet, more or less, measured along the northwest side of said 12-foot alley from the southwest side of Pall Mall Road, 40 feet wide, and running thence binding on the northwest side of said 12-foot alley, Southwesterly 15.2 feet, more or less, to intersect the southwest side of said 15-foot alley; thence binding on the southwest side of said 15-foot alley, Northwesterly 160.0 feet, more or less, to the northwest outline of the property known as No. 4309/4311 Pimlico Road; thence by a straight line through the bed of said 15-foot alley, Northeasterly 15.6 feet, more or less, to intersect the northeast side of said 15-foot alley at the division line between the properties known as Nos. 4410 and 4422 Pall Mall Road, there

 

 

situated, and thence binding on the northeast side of said 15-foot alley, Southeasterly 162.1 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning.

 

As delineated on Plat 332-A-28A, prepared by the Survey Control Section and filed on April 9, 2012, in the Office of the Department of General Services.

 

   SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the proceedings for the condemnation and closing of the 15-foot alley and the rights of all interested parties shall be regulated by and in accordance with all applicable provisions of state and local law and with all applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Director of General Services and filed with the Department of Legislative Reference.

 

   SECTION 3.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That after the closing under this Ordinance, all subsurface structures and appurtenances now owned by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore continue to be the property of the Mayor and City Council, in fee simple, until their use has been abandoned by the Mayor and City Council. If any person wants to remove, alter, or interfere with them, that person must first obtain permission from the Mayor and City Council and, in the application for this permission, must agree to pay all costs and expenses, of every kind, arising out of the removal, alteration, or interference.

 

   SECTION 4.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That no building or structure of any kind (including but not limited to railroad tracks) may be constructed or erected in or on any part of the street closed under this Ordinance until all subsurface structures and appurtenances owned by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore have been abandoned by the Mayor and City Council or, at the expense of the person seeking to erect the building or structure, have been removed and relaid in accordance with the specifications and under the direction of the Director of General Services of Baltimore City.

 

   SECTION 5.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That after the closing under this Ordinance,  all subsurface structures and appurtenances owned by any person other than the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall be removed by and at the expense of their owners, promptly upon notice to do so from the Director of Public Works.

 

   SECTION 6.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That at all times after the closing under this Ordinance, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, acting by or through its authorized representatives, shall have access to the subject property and to all subsurface structures and appurtenances used by the Mayor and City Council, for the purpose of inspecting, maintaining, repairing, altering, relocating, or replacing any of them, without need to obtain permission from or pay compensation to the owner of the property.

 

   SECTION 7.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted.

 

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