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Section 2. The Council further finds and establishes a zero dollar assessment far the street being vacated based on: ~a} Columbia 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} Columbia 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} Under state law, the street being vacated will revert to the abutting property owners, the University of Oregon and Williams Bakery. Williams Bakery has entered into an agreement with the University of Oregon wherein it has agreed to convey its interest in the vacated street to the University of Oregon, without any charge, except that the University of Oregon will pay any assessment imposed by the City for Williams Bakery's portion of the vacated street, ~d} The vacation of Columbia Street is consistent with the FairmountltJniversity 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 Columbia Street the public will continue to have access to the area. fie} The University of Oregon has given many public benefits to the citizens of Eugene often without compensation. Specif tally, the University of Oregon provided 4 eight-plex, multi-family housing structures Amazon Housing} in 1996 and six single-family 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. ~f} The vacation of Columbia Street, the transfer of its interest to the University of Oregon by Williams Bakery, the transfer of property to the City as noted in fie} above, and the public benefits provided by the University to all residents of the City are unique circumstances. The action to vacate Columbia 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 for future right-of way vacation requests. ORDINANCE - ~