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BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL OF BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS Twenty-first (21st) Street South of Reynolds Street PETITION TO VACATE UNUSED AND UNOPENED STREET Come Robert L. Slaughter and Mary Slaughter, husband and wife, and Clyde Keene, by their attorney, Steve Bell, and pursuant to Act 17 of the Arkansas Acts of 1945, state for their petition to abandon a certain street for nonuse as follows: (1) That Petitioners Robert L. and Mary Slaughter are i� i the owners of the following described real property: Lot 6, Block 13 and all of Block 14 of the Fitzhugh Park Addition to the City of Batesville, Arkansas. That Petitioner Clyde Keene is the owner of the following des- cribed real property: Lot 5, Block 13 of the Fitzhugh Park Addition to the City of Batesville, Arkansas. (2) That said land described in paragraph 1 lies south of and immediately adjacent to Reynolds Street. (3) That as platted in the subdivision records of the i City of Batesville, Arkansas, Twenty-first (21st) Street, south `f of Reynolds Street, is a street having a fifty (5 0 ) foot right -of-! way. (4) That there has been no attempt to open this street !i or to use it for public purposes and such street has not been r' actually used by the public for a period in excess of twenty-five (25) years. (5) That the Petitioners are owners of all lands which abut the street hereinabove mentioned; that no other property owner other than Petitioners will in any way be affected by the jjvacation of such street. P fff (6) That the presence of the platted but unopened I1 street on Petitioners lands greatly hampers the development and use of such land without a corresponding benefit to anyone; that the public interest and welfare will not be adversely affected by the abandonment of such unopened street. i ,a