ORDINANCE NO. 120480
Vacating Highland Avenue between
Independence Avenue/Boulevard and Missouri Avenue, Kansas City, Jackson County,
Missouri; and directing the City Clerk to record certain documents. (1646-V)
BE
IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. The
Council of Kansas City does hereby find and declare that on the 30th day of March,
2012, a petition was filed with the City Clerk of Kansas City by Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences for
the vacation of Highland Avenue from the south
line of Missouri Avenue to the north line of Independence Avenue/Boulevard,
both as now established, all in Section 33, Township 50 North, Range 33 West,
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, giving the distinct description
of the street to be vacated, and also the names of the persons and corporations
owning or claiming to own the property fronting thereon, and that due notice of
the pendency of said petition has been given in the newspaper doing the city
printing, and that the consent of the persons and corporations owning or
claiming to own three-fourths of the front feet of the property immediately
adjoining said street has been obtained in writing, that said consent has been
acknowledged as deeds are acknowledged, and was duly filed with the petition
for such vacation in the City Clerk's Office.
Section 2. That the
Council finds that the City Plan Commission has duly endorsed its approval of
this Ordinance hereon.
Section 3. That the
Council finds that no private rights will be unreasonably injured or endangered
by this vacation and that the public will suffer no unreasonable loss or inconvenience
thereby.
Section 4. That Highland Avenue from the south line of Missouri Avenue
to the north line of Independence Avenue/Boulevard, both as now established,
all in Section 33, Township 50 North, Range 33 West, Kansas City, Jackson
County, Missouri, be and the same is hereby vacated. However, the City
of Kansas City reserves an easement and the right to locate, construct and
maintain (or to authorize any franchised utility to locate, construct and
maintain) conduits, water, gas and sewer pipes, poles and wire, or any of them
over, under, along and across the above-described property. The City of Kansas
City shall have at all times the right to go upon the above-described property
to construct, maintain and repair the same; and nothing in this vacation action
shall be construed so as to grant any right to use the above-described property
in any manner as would interfere with the construction or reconstruction and
proper, safe and continuous maintenance of the aforesaid uses, and
specifically, there shall not be built thereon or thereover any structure,
fence or gate (except driveways, paved areas, grass, and shrubs) without first
securing the written approval of the Director of Public Works.
Section 5. That the
City Clerk of Kansas City, Missouri, be and she is hereby authorized and
directed to acknowledge this ordinance as deeds are acknowledged, and to cause
this ordinance and the consent of property owners hereinbefore referred to, to
be filed for record in the Recorder's Office in Jackson County, Missouri, however,
the ordinance shall not be recorded or
released for recording until (a) the Department of Public Works certifies that
any public streetlights within the right of way have been removed or put on
private meters, and (b) the Department of Parks and Recreation certifies that
an agreement has been entered into for the construction of a sidewalk on the
east side of The Paseo from Independence Avenue north to Missouri Avenue.
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Section 6. All
Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance are, in so
much as they conflict with this Ordinance, hereby repealed.
_____________________________________________
Approved
as to form and legality:
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M.
Margaret Sheahan Moran
Assistant City Attorney
Approved
by the City Plan Commission
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Diane
Binckley, Secretary
STATE OF MISSOURI )
)
ss.
COUNTY OF ________ )
On the _____ day of
___________________, 20___, before me, a Notary Public in and for said County,
personally appeared ____________________________________ to me known to be the
City Clerk of Kansas City, Missouri, in the above and foregoing ordinance mentioned,
and acknowledged the said ordinance to be the act and deed of said Kansas City,
duly passed by the Council of said City, and became effective as herein stated.
In Testimony Whereof,
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in Kansas City, Missouri, the day and year first above written.
My term expires
_________________________, 20____.
____________________________________
Notary
Public within and for
County, Missouri
IN RECORDER'S OFFICE
STATE OF MISSOURI )
) ss.
COUNTY OF _________ )
I, the undersigned,
Recorder of Deeds within and for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that
the foregoing instrument of writing was on the ______ day of _____________________,
A.D. 20____, at ________ o'clock _______ minutes M., duly filed for record in
this office, and with certificate of acknowledgment thereon endorsed, is
recorded in the records of this office in Book _______________________, at page
___________.
In Testimony Whereof,
I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said office at Kansas City, Missouri, this day and year last aforesaid.
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Recorder
By_________________________________
Deputy