6135655 Resolution 21-581, Closing of Public Streets and Dedication of Land for Street and Alley Purposes in and abutting Squares 3953, 3954, 4024, 4025, and Parcel 143/45, S.O. 14-20357, Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

21-581

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

July 12, 2016        

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to order the closing of a portion of 14th Street, N.E., adjacent to Squares 3954 and 4024 and Parcel 143/45, and to accept the dedication of portions of land in Squares 3953, 3954, 4024, and 4025  and Parcel 143/45 for public street and alley purposes, in Ward 5.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Closing of Public Streets and Dedication of Land for Street and Alley Purposes in and abutting Squares 3953, 3954, 4024, 4025, and Parcel 143/45, S.O. 14-20357, Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2. (a)  The portions of 14th Street, N.E., shown on the Surveyor’s plat filed under S.O. 14-20357, are unnecessary for street purposes. 

(b) On June 15, 2016 the Council’s Committee of the Whole held a public hearing on the closing of these portions of 14th Street, N.E.

(c) The Council is moving a separate measure to close these portions of 14th Street, N.E., as permanent legislation; however, because of the Council’s impending recess, no work would be able to begin until after a second reading in late September and congressional review thereafter.

(d) This emergency legislation is necessary to permit the project to proceed without unnecessary and undue delay.

 

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 Public Streets and Dedication of Land for Street and Alley Purposes in and abutting Squares 3953, 3954, 4024, 4025, and Parcel 143/45, S.O. 14-20357, Emergency Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.