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R-59-076 R E S O L U T I O N WHEREAS, WILLIAM L. C. GROSS and wife, ELAINE M. GROSS, of Clermont, Lake County, Florida, are the owners in fee simple of the following described property in Clermont, Lake County, Florida, to-wit: Tract 52 of Section 18, Township 22 South, Range 26 East, as represented on the Map of the Property of Lake Highlands Company of Florida; and as also repre- sented on the Official Map of the City of Clermont, as a fractional part of the South 1040 feet of W 1 /2 of SW 1/4 of SE 1/4, of said Section 18, Township 22 South, Range 26 East, both maps having been duly filed and recorded in the Public Records of Lake County, Florida; and, Tract 51 of Section 18, Township 22 South, Range 26 East, as represented on the Map of the Property of Lake Highlands Company of Florida; and as also represented on the Official Map of the City of Clermont, as a fractional part of the South 1040 feet of E 1/2 of SW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of said Section 18, Township 22 South, Range 26 East, both maps having been filed and recorded in the Public Records of Lake County, Florida, LESS and EXCEPT therefrom Right- of-Way for State Road 25, U. S. 27 (formerly State Road 8-A, Federal Route 19), and LESS and EXCEPT fractional part of said Tract 51 lying East of said State Road 25. WHEREAS, Division Street lies North of and adjacent to the above described Tracts 51 and 52, and Bloxam Avenue, running North and South separates said Tracts 51 and 52 from each other and the center line of said Division Street is the common boundary between the 'town of Minneola and the City of Clermont, all as represented on the said Official Map of the City of Clermont, therefore, the South Half (S 1/2) of said Division Street lies within the City of Clermont; and, WHEREAS, in the Northwest corner of Tract 52 there appears an area 60 feet in width on the East end of a lake extending from Division Street to- wards but not to Galena Avenue, all as represented on said Official Map of Clermont, but said area is in no way designated as a street, alley, park, or other public place (said area does not appear on the Map of Edgewood Place as filed and recorded in the Public Records of Lake County, Florida, and said area does not appear on the aforedescribed Map of the Lake High- lands Company of Florida of said Tract 52) and same has never been used in any way by the public in general, or by the abutting property owners except as their private property, and same has never been considered by the City Council of the City of Clermont as a street, park or other public area. WHEREAS, this Council has determined that the Council (Commissioners) of the Town of Minneola has adopted a Resolution on November 4, 1959, closing the N 1/2 of Division Street (which is within said Town) lying East of Galena Avenue and West of Bloxam Avenue, and East of Bloxam Avenue and West of said State Road 25, in exchange fora 60 foot strip of land and paralleled to,/fa.bout 125 feet North of the present location of Division Street (same being the North 60 feet of Lots 3 and 6, Block 55, and the North 60 feet of Lot 3, Block 52, lying West of State Road 25); and, therefore, the S 1/2 of said Division Street is no longer necessary and same has never been graded, paved, imrpoved by this City or used by anyone as a public thorough- fare, and this Council finds the permanent closing, abandoning and vacating of S 1/2 of Division Street to be in the best interests of the general welfare of this City; and, WHEREAS, the aforedescribed area on the East end of the lake within said Tract 52 was apparently included in error in said Official Map and as said area has never been considered a part of the system of streets, graded, paved, improved or used by anyone as a public thoroughfare, but on the r ~~ contrary has been used as private property by the present adjoining property owners and their predecessors in title, therefore, the permanent closing, abandoning and vacating of said undesignated area to be in the best interests of the general welfare of this City; therefore, BE 1T RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Clermont that the City Clerk publish a Notice in the Clermont Press for two consecutive weeks beginning November 19, 1959, that this Council will at its Regular Meeting to be held on December 1, 1959, consider the passage of an Ordinance forever abandoning, closing and vacating the S 1 j2 of Division Street lying West of Bloxam Avenue and East of Galena Avenue and East of Bloxam Avenue and West of State Road 25, as well as the undesignated 60 foot area at the East end of the lake in said Tract 52 South of Division Street; and, that if said Ordinance is passed the area within said S 1 J2 of Division Street as above described, and the undesignated area at the East end of said lake shall revert to the owners of the abutting and adjacent property; and, that all expenses in connection with this Resolution, Notice and Ordinance be paid by said owners. ADOPTED by the City council at its Adjourned Regular Meeting held on November 17, 1959. \A A R1 i A v1i ,1.1AM L (, GR()SS and wit: (let mo I 1 L - aye County, Florida. the Grantors ; ��- ' a r.� �� �raa;i 01 II do/100 1.O0+ Dollar received ft mu the t )1,A, a M;im, n, ?1 Corporation, of Lake County, Florida the on this 1st /<.v I L� `•i e(� / co! �1�� bo. 's only �h<• real I� of December, 1959, convey to the t rl ant i property in the Town of Minneola, Lake dc's ribed as North 60 feet of Lots 3 and 6, B9<r k the North �n a feet of Lot 3, Block 52, as rep! he 01 AI �•�enttt. ; I MAP of the [OWN OF MINNEC,l�A. duly filed and r el orde(l in the Public Records of Lake (oumy, I R it and covenant that the property is free of all ercurnbran-_ e-. that Iawhil seism of and good right to convey that property are vested in tne Grantors, and that I The Grantors hereby fully warrant the title Io said :and and will defend the same against the lawful claims of all persons whoms It is hereby understood and agreed and stipulated between the grantors and grantee that if the lands hereby conveyed arc abandoned, or no longer used for street purposes by the To of Minneola. the said lands hereby conveticd shall revert back to the then owners in fee -,;rnp1e of said 1,»)ts 3 and 6, Ruck I i 55, and Lot 3, Block 52, respectively i1 Signed in the Presence of i t_ I - S.._ ,=,c- t -re II I I� TA 11 OF F 1J R1DA, ) L0I IN [Y u1= LAKE.