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Section 2. The Council further Ends and establishes a zero dollar assessment for the street being vacated based on: ~a} Moss Street consists of partial blocks, is a dead-end street with no street connections to other streets. The street does not serve a transportation function of providing traffic circulation through the neighborhood as it does not, and cannot connect with other streets. fib} Moss Street is a liability to the City in that it incurs costs for maintenance, and will continue to do so as long as the City owns the street. ~c} The vacation of Moss Street is consistent with the FairmountlUniversity of Oregon Special Study, and it is in the public interest that the City facilitate the location of parking areas within the University of Oregon campus where such facilities will not intrude into the Fairmount Neighborhood. The University of Oregon is a public institution that provides public access to its grounds and facilities. With the vacation of Moss Street the public will continue to have access to the area. ~d} The University of Oregon has given many public benefits to the citizens of Eugene often without compensation. Specifically, the University of Oregon provided 4 eight-plea, multi-family housing structures (Amazon Housing} in 1996 and six single-fancily housing structures in 1997 to the City's Affordable Housing Landbank Program to facilitate the provision oflow-income housing. As other surplus housing structures become available, the University of Oregon will continue the practice of offering such housing structures to the City, fie} The vacation of Moss Street, the transfer of property to the City as noted in (d} above, and the public benefits provided by the University to all residents of the City are unique circumstances. The action to vacate Moss Street and the determination of a zero dollar assessment by the City Council is based on these unique circumstances and is not intended to, and does not set a precedent far future right-of way vacation requests. Section 3. The hearing was held on the 6t" day of April, 1998, at 7:30 p.m., Pacific Time, at the Council Chambers, City Hall, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, and all matters necessary to be done in the premises have been duly and regularly completed. Section 4, The herein above-described street right-of way is hereby vacated, subject to the retained public utility easement, and the street right-of way so vacated shall revert pursuant to the statutes of the State of Oregon. Section 5. The City Recorder is directed to file a certified copy of this Ordinance with the Recorder of Lane County, Oregon, together with a map or plat of said property, and a certified copy ORDINANCE - 2