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A ~'etltlon was received for the vacation of ~lrst Avenue East as follows: PETITION ~0t~ VACATION OM ?II,ST AV k~IUE EAST. To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of EUgene: The undersigned petitioners, J. 9.Mclfy and Wili l~n T. Culver, represent and show as follows: That early in the year 1924 the under signed potitioners and C.O. Peter- son and duly constituted officers representing the City of EUgene, entered into certain verbal agreements arising out of the desire and proposal of the City .of ~gene to deflect and change ithe course of High Street so as to connect the same width the Municiapl Automobile Park which is located between the Willamette ~l. ver and Skinner's Butte; that the Proposed change involved the turning of the course of High Street in a northwesterly direction on a curve beginning at about the southeast corner of lot 4 in block 1 in ~Age~e City as originally platted by E.~. Skinner in .Lame County, O~egon, now a part of the City of Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, and running thence on a curve across a part of lot 4 in said bloc!~ 1 and thence continuing on a curve to a point on ~lOt 1 in said block 1 and thence contln ulng on a straight line in a northwesterly d~rection across the remainder of said lot I and across t~lrst Avenue East and thence or~wa~d 'to the afore's~id Municipal Automobile Park; that it Was agreed by and between the-parties above mentioned a- mong other things (1) that all that part of I~lrst Avenue East which is hereinafter particularly described should be vacated,-(2) that the following particularly described part of High Street: That part ,of High Street as platted and recorded - in the origina! plat of. the. City of EUgene, Ore- gon, lying North of the-following described line; Beginning at the northwest corner of lot ~ of l~raottonal block"B~ of the Original Plat · Of the City of Eugene, Oregon, thence West 1 foot, thence northwesterly along a curve to the .. _ left whose radius is 162.~1 feet and which is , tangent at this point to a line 1* West of end parallel with the West lime of said I~$ 5, 150,64 feet more er less-~.toiits intersection with the ~ West lime of~ said High Street, which imtersee- ~ tiom is 44.05 feet south of the northeast corner of~Let 1, Bloo~ said original plat of the City· ef ~geme, Oregon, ~ should be vacated, ~d (3> that the whole of the alley which ex~e~des North ~d South through Fractional block B in ~eme, CitM a~ o~lgimallM platted b~ ~2. Sktnmer lm ~e County, Oregon, now a part ef the City of ~gene, Lame cowry, Oregon, should be vacated. That l~ was further agreed by the above mentioned parties, ~ong other thlngs~ that J.R. Me~¥ and Wllli~ T. Culver should convey to the City of Eugene, all +,hat part of s~ld lot 1 in block I which is embraced within the chan~ed course