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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 100 OF THE DULUTH CITY CHARTER, 1912, AS AMENDED TO AUTHORIZE VACATION OF PUBLIC WAYS ON MOTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
The city of Duluth does ordain:
Section 1. That subsection (a) of section 100 of the Duluth City Charter, 1912, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 100. Vacation of highways; use of public highways by abutting property owners.
(a) The council may vacate any street, alley, public grounds, public way, or any part
thereof, on its own motion or on petition of a majority of the owners of land abutting on the street, alley, public grounds, public way, or part thereof to be vacated. The council shall have the exclusive power to vacate in whole or in part public Highways within the city, but only upon the petition of the person or persons who own a majority of the lineal frontage of the land abutting upon the portion of the highway proposed to be vacated;
(b) In the exercise of this power the council shall, by ordinance, provide that:
(1) The council shall refer petitions for vacation to the planning commission
for investigation, public hearing, report and recommendation to the council, without undue delay and within sixty days from the time of the initial filing of the petition;
(2) Before holding a public hearing on any petition the planning commission
shall give notice of the time, place and purpose of the hearing in such manner and form as the council may designate to the persons who own the land lying within a distance of 300 feet in a line beyond each end of the portion of the highway proposed to be vacated and to such other class or category of persons whom the council may designate in such ordinance;
(3) At the time and place set forth in the notice the interested persons shall be given
an opportunity to be heard;
(4) The planning commission shall take into consideration the matters ascertained
by its investigation in addition to the matters presented ...
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