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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1991-06-24 91-261 ORDERCouncil Act ion Date YOK9p 7forthe Item No. 91-261Fem/SubjecC Directing City Engineer to DiscStreetResponsible Department: Engine ing Commentary: The adjacent property oxn s have previoufar the diiitinuance of the Enfield Street right-of-wbetween theirproperties and rhe easterly boundary of GField. As a alternative. they have requested that the City improve the right-of-way by installing a drainage System to prevent the occasional flooding of their property, and that trees be planted to provide a suitable buffer between their property and Garland Street Field. Since the right-ofway serves no useful purpose to the City. and since it has actually been legally discontinued by the failure of the City to maintain it as a public way. and whereas a diacont Incomes will cult in the reversion of one-half of the right-of-way to the Garland Street Field property with the remainder to revert to the abutting property a s , it i ended that the completion of the formal discontinuanceis the most practical way to remove the Enfield Street right-of-way from the Officlal City Map as an unaccepted street. mepmnas _v - Manager's Manager's Comments: %#fs 4P9 lmr rrv")ed �y��J 6Y li (egii on 617 -til 44 Associated Information: nh/ Budget Approval: N/A«Vara Legal Approval City SoGc;mr Introduced For pauses First Reading page _of_ ❑Refeval 91-261 AeeignW to Cousdor Bragg. June 24, 1991 CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.) (Drb , Directing City Engineer to Discontinue Enfield Street By the city Cassell Of V6 City of Amager. ORDERED, THAT. WHEREAS, a proposed 50 -foot wide right-of-way known as Enfield Street, extending south from Most Hope Avenue and located westerly of Howard Street was originally to be developed by the Interstate Land Company as part of a Subdivision is be knows a "Howard Street Manor'shown on a Plan prepared by Peter V. Cipolla, Engineer, dated July, 19298 a copy of said Plan on file in the office of the City Engineer; and WHEREAS, said Enfield Street was never constructed, accepted, or maintained as a public way; and WHEREAS, a petition from the adjacent land owners has requested discontinuance of said Enfield Street right-of-way; and WHEREAS, 23 M.R.S.A. 53028 provides that undeveloped town ways which have not been established and kept passable for the use of motor vehicles t the expense of the municipality for a period of 30 years prior to January 1, 1976 have been discontinued by abandonment; - NOW, THEREFORE, He It ORDERED, THAT the City Engineer, acting for and on behalf of the 'Municipal Officers, in accordance with 23 M.R.S.A. 13026 be and hereby is directed to discontinue said Enfield Street right-ofway, the location of the easterly line of which is located as follows: Beginning on the southerly right-of-way line of Hunt Hope Avenue at a point located 216.97 feet westerly erly from thewesterly right-of-way line of Howard Street, a measuredalong said southerly right-of-way line of Mount Rope Avenue; thence in asoutherly direction along the easterly right-of-way, line of Enfield Street for a distance of 832.04 feet to a point, being the southerly terminus of said Enfield Street; a" be it further ORDERED. THAT the City Engineer give beet practicable notice to all abutting property o and the Planning Board, giving the bounds u and adme mens of said right-of-way, together with a list of damages, if any, to be paid asresult of said discontinuance, and report his findings to the City Council for further action. i 91-261 ORDER 'Title, In city council June 26,1991 .Jinecting.citr .Enginaer.ta .disnontin"a Passed Enfield street ¢« ✓ Ausigmed to city merRCZa&.............htJ,.(Ca (� /councilman E � �a