O-53-118
ORDINANCE NO. 118
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AN ORDINANCE PERMANENTLY CLOSING AND VACATING
HIBISCUS STREET LYING NORTHERLY OF SUNNYSIDE
DRIVE AND SOUTHERLY OF HIGHLAND AVENUE, ALL
_ ACCORDING TO MAP OR PLAT OF SUNNYSIDE UNIT,
CLERMONT HEIGHTS, FILED FOR RECORD ON 3/11/26
AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 8, PAGES 66 and 67,
PUBLIC RECORDS OF LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDAi PRO-
VIDING FOR THE REVERSION OF SAID LANDS TO THE
ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNERS; PROVIDING FOR OTHER
MATTERS RELATING THERETO.
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V~EREAS, the State Road Department of the state of Florida,
a component agency of the State of Florida, has surveyed, located
and proposes to construct State Road 50, section 1107, through
Clermont, Florida, with said state road to be constructed over,
through and across said Hibiscus Street in an easterly to westerly
direction; and,
WHEREAS, the grade on said Sunnyside Drive is many feet
lower than the grade of Highland Avenue and the contour of the
land on which Hibiscus Street has been laid out on the above des-
cribed plat is such that the construction of State Road 50 over,
through and across Hibiscus Street would make it impossible for
those entering said Hibiscus Street from Highland Avenue to cross
said State Road 50 and drive on said Hibiscus Street to said Sunny-
side Drive and likewise because of the grade construction of State
Road 50 it would be impossible for cars to travel on said Hibiscus
Street from Sunnyside Drive to Highland Avenue after the construction
of said roadi and,
WHEREAS, said Hibiscus Street has been paved but there being
no homes located on the lots abutting Sunnyside ~ive or any portion
of the lots or blocks lying immediately North of Lake Sunnyside Drive
and South of said Highland Avenue; and, it is found necessary by
the State Road Department of Florida that said Hibiscus Street be
permanently closed and the traveling public be restricted from
using said street, and after due consideration by the City Council
of the City of Clermont said City Council finds the foregoing facts
to be true and that said street should be permanently closed and
abandoned and that the property lying within the boundaries of said
Hibiscus Street South of Highland Avenue and North of Sunnyside Drive-
should revert to and become the property, in equal portions, of the
owners of the property abutting said street on the easterly and
westerly boundaries thereof, LESS the right of way for said State
Road 50;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT, FLORIDA:
Section 1. That Hibiscus Street lying South of Higland Avenue
and North of Sunnyside Drive according to the map or plat of Sunny-
side Unit, Clermont-Heights, filed for record on 3/11/26 and recorded
in Plat Book 8, pages 66 and 67, public records of Lake County, Florida,
be and the same is hereby forever closed as a street in the City of
Clermont and that said street is hereby permanently Vacated and can-
celled on said plat and the general traveling public is hereby forever
restricted from the use of said Hibiscus Street as a general thorough-
fare or street within the City of Clermont, LESS that part thereof
over, through and across which State Road 50 will be constructed.
Section 2. That said Hibiscus Street lying within the boundaries
of Highland Avenue and Sunnyside Drive as more particularly set forth
in Section 1 hereinabove, having by this ordinance been hereby perm-
anently vacated and closed as a public street and cancelled on said
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plat of Sunnyside Unit, Clermont Heights, the easterly portion of
said street LESS right of way for state Road 50 shall revert ~o
and become the property of the abutting p:operty owners, t?-w~t:.
Lots land 38 of Block 7 according to sa~d plat of Sunnys~de Un~t,
Clermont Heights, with the owner or owners of Lot 1 acquiring and
having reverted to them the North half of East half of said Hibiscus
Street, LESS right of way for State Road 50i and, the owner or owners
of Lot 38 of said Block 7 shall have reverted to them and become the
owner or owners of the South half of East half of said Hibiscus
Street, LESS right of way for State Road 50; and, that the westerly
portion of said street, LESS right of way for State Road 50, shall
revert to and become the property of the abutting property owners,
to-wit: Lots land 49 of Block 9 according to said plat of Sunny-
side Unit, Clermont Heights, with the owner or owners of Lot 1
acquiring and having reverted to them the North half of West half
of said street LESS right of way for state Road 50; and, the owner
or owners of Lot 49 of said Block 9 shall have reverted to them and
become the owner or owners of the South half of West half of said
Hibiscus Street, LESS right of way for State Road 50i and, that from
this date on the respective owners, of the lots in the respective
blocks to which that portion of the easterly and westerly halves
less the right of way for State Road 50 have reverted to and become
the property of, are hereby placed in full possession, control and
ownership of said property with the right to sell¡ mortgage, lease
or otherwise dispose of said premises the same as if they could,
had they originally owned said lands and said lands had not been
laid out and platted on said map or plat as a street for the general
use of the traveling public and had not been so improved by paving.
Section 3, That a certified copy of this ordinance be filed
of record in the public records of Lake County, Florida, and that
h~reafter the tax assessor of the City of Clermont do, beginning
w~~h January 1, 1954, assess those portions of said Hibiscus Avenue
ly~ng South of Highland Avenue and North of Sunnyside Drive,less
r~ght. of way for State Road 50, as herein;;bove more specifically
descr~bed, to the owner or owners and the~r successors in title
thereto the same as if said Hibiscus Street had never been laid
out, platted and improved as a public street.
. Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon
~ts passage and approval by the Mayor in accordance with the Charter
and ordinances of the City of Clermont and the laws of the state of
Florida and t~at this ordinance is passed and the above and within
named street ~s hereby permanently closed and discontinued under and
by authority of Chapter 167.09, Florida Statutes 1951, and all amend-
ments thereto.
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PASSED by the City Council of the City of Clermont at its
regular meeting held on September 1, 1953.
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RECEIVED AND APPROVED by me this -L- day of September, 1953.
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NOTICE OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT,
FLORIDA I THE SAME BEIN3 ORDINANCE NO. 48
OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT I FLORIDA.
TO ALL WHOM IT /MY CONCERN:
YOU, and each of you, are hereby notified that on 1 September
1953 at 7:00 P.M. in the City Hall in the City of Clermont, the
City Council of the City of Clermont will consider and act upon a
proposed amendment to the Zoning ~dinance of the City of Clermont,
the s~~e beina Ordinance No. 48, changing the Zone of the following
desc!ibed property in the City of Clermont, Florida, to-wit:
(a) From a R-IA Single Family District to a R-2
Multiple Family District:
All lots in Oak View Subdivision, a subdivision
in the City of Clermont, according to plat thereof
duly filed for record on June 4, 1953, and recorded
in Plat Book l2, page 59, public records of Lake
County, Florida.
(b) To amend paragraph 15 of Section 5 of Ordinance
No. 48 to read as follows:
15. Laundry or Launderettes (employing more than
five people on premises).
(c) To amend Section 3 of ~dinance No. 48 by adding
an additional paragraph thereto, to be numbered
14 and to read as follows:
14. Funeral Homes.
ALL PERSONS interested will be heard.
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-i ty of Clermrmt
. I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the foregoinq Notice was published
~~ The ~lermont.Press, a newspaper of general circulation pub-
l~shed ~n the C~ty of Clermont in the issues of August 13 and 20
1953/ and a copy of this Notice was posted in a conspicuous Dlac~
on the within described premises and a copy was also posted on the
bulletin board in the City Hall in Clermont, Florida.
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