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6u01 Y'GE ~$j A RESOLUTION ORDERING THE CLOSI G OF AN UNOPENED PORTION OF WEST MEADOWBROOK STREET WHEREAS, on the 201h day of November, 2000 the Lee County Commissioners directed the County Clerk to publish the Resolution of Intent of the County Commissioners to consider closing public roads in Lee County in the Sanford Herald newspaper once each week for three successive weeks, such resolution advising the public that a meeting would be conducted in the Lee County Government Center on January 2, 2001; and WHEREAS, the Lee County Commissioners, on the 201h day of November, 2000 ordered the County Clerk to notify all persons owning property abutting an unopened portion of West Meadowbrook Street; and WHEREAS, the County Clerk has advised the Lee County Commissioners that on the date directed she sent a letter to each of said abutting property owners advising them of the day, time, and place of the meeting, enclosing a copy of the Resolution of Intent and advising said abutting property owner that the question as to closing that unopened portion of West Meadowbrook Street would be acted upon at the January 2°d, 2001 meeting, said letters having been mailed by registered mail with return receipt requested; and WHEREAS, the County Clerk has advised the Lee County Commissioners that none of the letters so sent have been returned undelivered; and WHEREAS the County Clerk has published the resolution as directed in the Sanford Herald once a week for three consecutive weeks; and WTIEREAS, after full and complete consideration of the matter and after having granted full and complete opportunity for all interested persons to appear and register any objections that they might have with respect to the closing of said street; and WHEREAS, it now appears to the satisfaction of the Lee County Commissioners the closing of said street is not contrary to the public interest and that no individual owning property, either abutting the street or in the vicinity of said street or in the subdivision in which said street is located, will as a result of said closing, be thereby deprived of a reasonable means of ingress and egress to his property, and WHEREAS, the County of Lee reserves its right, title and interest in any utility improvement or easement within the street, if any; and WHEREAS, it appears to the satisfaction of the Lee County Commissioners that the closing of said street will be in the public interest. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Lee County Commissioners meeting in regular session that the unopened portion of West Meadowbrook Street, beginning at a point 242.5 feet south from the Pioneer Drive and West Meadowbrook Street intersection and extending south west approximately 700 feet is hereby ordered closed, and all right, title, and interest that may be vested in the public to said area for street purposes is here by released and quit-claimed to the abutting property owners in accordance with the provisions of Section 153A-241 of the General Statutes of North Carolina.