Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, August 11, 1942 to December 30, 1946, lvc000005-422

Attached hereto, we return the original petition regarding vacation of Coolidge Street between South Fourth Street and Charleston Boulevard. At a special meeting of the Joint Planning Commission, November 6, 1945, in a motion duly made and carried, the Planning Commission recommends the vacation of this street provided: 1. Sufficient portion of Coolidge Street be retained to permit extension of present north-south alley in Block 21, South Addition, southerly to north right-of-way line of Charleston Boulevard, including a 10 ft. strip from the north portion of Charleston Boulevard for widening to 50 ft. north of the present center line, 2. That applicant convey to the City from all those lots under his ownership adjoining Charleston Boulevard and South Fifth Street, 10 ft. and 5 ft. respectively for proposed widening. 3. That applicant also convey to the City of Las Vegas the westerly portion of Block 22, as indicated on the sketch attached hereto, to be used for street purposes. And this Board by an Order adopted at its meeting held on the 22nd day of January, 1946, set the 7th day of March, 1946, at the hour of 2:00 P.M., at the Commissioners' Room in the War Memorial Building, located at the northwest corner of Fifth and Stewart Streets, Las Vegas, Nevada, as the time and place for public hearing on said Petition and Recommendation, and ordered the City Clerk to cause notice of said hearing to be posted as in said Order provided, which notice was to set forth the extent of the proposed vacation. And it appearing from the affidavit of Claud C. Sargent filed with the Clerk of this Board, that the Notice provided for in said Order, a copy of which is attached to said affidavit, was posted on the 31st day of January, 1946, in the manner prescribed by said Order. And this being the time fixed for the hearing of said Petition for the vacation and recommendation thereof, and this Board having heard evidence in support of said recommendation and Petition for vacation and being satisfied that the public will not be materially injured by said proposed vacation, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the following described portion of Coolidge Avenue, to-wit: Being a portion of Coolidge Avenue extending from the easterly line of Fourth Street to a line parallel to the center line of Charleston Boulevard as re-established for construction by the Nevada Highway Department and fifty (50) feet northwardly therefrom measured perpendicularly, excepting and excluding therefrom the area, twenty (20) feet in width, extending southwardly across said portion of Coolidge Avenue in the prolongation of the north-south alley in Block 21 of said South Addition to Charleston Boulevard, be, and the same is hereby vacated, upon delivery of properly executed instruments conveying to the City of Las Vegas those various strips of land enabling the widening of Fourth Street, Fifth Street and Charleston Boulevard in accordance with the recommendation of the letter of the Planning Commission dated November 7, 1945, relative thereto. Motion seconded by Commissioner Baskin, carried by the following vote: Commissioners Baskin, Bates, Clark, Corradetti and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. RESOLUTION—Re: Commissioner Clark introduced the following resolution and Police. Station Bonds moved its adoption: RESOLUTION WHEREAS, by resolution adopted by the Board of City Commissioners on November 21, 1945, the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal was designated as the newspaper in which the publication of the novice of sale on $140,000.00 Las Vegas Nevada, Police Station Bonds was to be made, and WHEREAS, the actual publication of the notice of sale was made for the required length of time in the Las Vegas Age, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed and published at Las Vegas, Nevada, NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved that the action of the City Officials in publishing the notice of sale on $140,000.00 Las Vegas, Nevada, Police Station Bonds in the Las Vegas Age is hereby ratified and confirmed. This resolution shall become effective and be in force immediately upon its adoption. ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 7th day of March, 1946. ATTEST: APPROVED: s/ Helen Scott Reed s/ E. W. Cragin City Clerk Mayor (SEAL)