4768634 Resolution 20-419, “Closing of a Public Alley in Square 150, S.O. 13-10218, Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

20-419  

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

February 4, 2014

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to order the closing of a portion of the public alley in Square 150, bounded by Seaton Street, N.W., Florida Avenue, N.W., and 17^th Street, N.W., in Ward 1.

 

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Closing of a Public Alley in Square 150, S.O. 13-10218, Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

 

            Sec. 2.   (a) The Council has considered on first reading on January 7, 2014, and final reading on February 4, 2014, Bill 20-439, the Closing of a Public Alley in Square 150, S.O. 13-10218, Act of 2013, following mark-up by the Committee of the Whole. 

            (b) For reasons lost to history, the subject alley was never constructed and exists entirely beneath a house built in 1900.

            (c) The alley closing legislation will enable the homeowner to sell the house.  It is clear the alley will never be built.   

            (d)  The Advisory Neighborhood Commission (“ANC”) 1C, the ANC within which the public alley is located, supports the alley closing.

            (e) Approval of emergency legislation will allow the sale of the home to proceed expeditiously. 

 

            Sec. 3.   The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Closing of a Public Alley in Square 150, S.O. 13-10218, Emergency Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.

 

            Sec. 4.   This resolution shall take effect immediately.