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File #: 2008-0593    Version:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 7/15/2008 In control: Committee on Public Works
On agenda: Final action: 7/22/2008
Enactment date: 7/22/2008 Enactment #: 421
Effective date: 7/30/2008    
Title: Resolution vacating a portion of Vera Street in the 5th Ward, 6th Council District, of the City of Pittsburgh.
Indexes: VACATING A STREET
Attachments: 1. 2008-0593.doc
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Resolution vacating a portion of Vera Street in the 5th Ward, 6th Council District, of the City of Pittsburgh.

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WHEREAS, it appears by the petition and affidavit on file in the Office of the City Clerk that the owners of all the property fronting or abutting on the line of Vera Street in the 5th Ward, 6th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh, have petitioned the council of the City of Pittsburgh to enact a resolution for the vacation of same, and

WHEREAS, said petition contains inter-alia, an indemnification of the city from any claims and from the payment of any damages whatsoever resulting to any properties owned by the petitioners or by and persons whatsoever, abutting or non-abutting, for or by reason of said vacation; therefore

Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. That vacating a portion of Vera Street as described:
All that certain street, being a portion of Vera Street, 40.00 feet wide, to be vacated, situate in the 5th Ward, City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, more particularly bound and described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the northerly right of way line of Vera Street, 400.00 feet wide, at the line dividing lands now or formerly of the City of Pittsburgh and lands now or formerly of Larry M. Johnson and Barbara J. Johnson, thence from said point of beginning by a line through Vera Street S 38?° 53' 48” E a distance of 40.00 feet to a point on the southerly right of way line of Vera Street; thence by the southerly right of way line of Vera Street S 51° 06' 12” W a distance of 505.86 feet, more or less, to a point on the westerly terminus of Vera Street, thence by the westerly terminus of Vera Street N 22° 19' 48” W a distance of 41.73 feet to a point on the northerly right of way line of Vera Street; thence by the northerly right of way line of Vera Street N 51° 06” 12” E a distance of 493.93 feet, more or less, to a poi...

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