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ORDINANCE NO. 426

AN ORDINANCE TO OFICIALLY CLOSE AND ABANDON
AN ALLEY BETWEEN ASTRID STREET AND ELK STREET
THE SAME BEING DESCRIBED IN THE BODY OF THIS
ORDINANCE.

WHEREAS, it is the desire and wish of all of the
property owners that own property adjoining the hereinafter

described alley that said alley be closed; and

WHEREAS, the property owners have signed a Petition
(said Petition is filed herewith and marked as Exhibit "A"),
requestifig that said alley be clased in that said property
owners feel that it would be to the best interest af the City

and said property owners that the same be closed in order that

said areas may be developed and utilized; and

WHEREAS, it is to the public welfare that said alley

be officially closed and abandoned.

SECTION 1. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE

CITY OF ATHENS, TENNESSEE, AS FOLLOWS:
That an alley be closed and abandoned, said alley being

described as follows:

Lying and being in the City of Athens, Tennessee,
and more particularly described as follows, to-wit:

BEGINNING for the bounds of said alley at a point
being the Northeast property corner of that parcel
of tand designated as parcel 46, F. M. Wofford
Addition and being described in property book 3-d,
page 452 of the land records of McMinn County.
THENCE; West, running and binding with the Northwest
property line of said parcel, a distance of one
hundred eighty feet to the intersection of said
property line and the Northeast right of way line

of Astrid Street; thence running Northwest being

on common course with the Northwest right of way -
line of Astrid Street to-a point being the Southwest
property corner of Lot 38 of the F. M. Wofford

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