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A Petition was .received for the vacation of a Part of High Street as follows~ ? TITION VACATION To the Hon. Mayor and Common Council of the City of Eugene~ The undersigned petitioners, C.0. :Petorscn, J N MCKy and Will. l~n T. Culver represent and show as follows: That early in the year 1924, C.0~ Paterson, one of the undersigned peti~ tloners and J R ~cKy and William T. Culver, undersigned petitioners, and duly con- stituted officers representing the City of Eugene entered into certain verbal agree merits arising out of the des. ire .and~roposal of the.City of E~gene to deflect and change the course of High St'feet~ so as to connect t'he same with .the Municipal. Auto- mobile Park located between the Willamette ~lver and Sklnner's BUtte; that the proposed change involved the turning' of the course of High Street ia a northwest- erly direction on a curve at about the southeast corner of lot 4 in block l, in Eugene City as originally platted by E.F. Skinner in Lane County, Oregon, ~ow a part of the City of Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, and running thence on a 9~eve across a part of lot ~, in said block 1, and thence continuing on a curve to a .point o lot I in said block 1 and thence continuing on a straight line in a north- westerly direction across the remainder of said lot 1 and across First Avenue and thence onw.ard to the aforesaid Municipal Automobile Park; that it was agreed by and between the Parties above mentioned, among other things (1) that all that part of High Street which is hereinafter particularly described should be vacated, (2) that the following described portion of First Avenue East; Baglnnlng at the intersection of the South line of First Avenue East with the West line of High Street as~[atted and recorded in the original plat of the City of E~gene, Oregon, and ru~ning thence West along the South m~rgin of said First Avenue East 75.92 feet; thence North 60e~0~ West 157 feet more or less te the North lime of said First Avenue East, thence East. along the North lime of said Fl~t Avenue East ~95 feet to the said We~t ~ine of H1gh Street, theacb South ~.~eet to the place of beginning. should be vacated, and (3) that the whole of the alley which extended North and South through fractional block B in Eugene City as originally platted by Skinner in Lane County, Oregon, now a part of~ the City of Eugene, Lame County, Ore- gon, .~, should be vacated; that it was further agreed by the above mentioned - parties, among other thlngs, that R J McKy and William T. Culver should convey to the City of Euge.~e all that part of said loll in block I embraced within the Changed course of High Street as the same crosses said lot .1, and that it was. greed by the above mentioned pa~lee, among other things, that C.O, Paterson