7-9-2: APPLICATION FOR CLOSING EASEMENTS OR PUBLIC WAYS:
All applications for closing easements or public ways located within the corporate limits of the city shall be filed with the planning commission; and the applicant shall furnish the following information with the application at the time of filing:
   A.   A plot, plan or other representative sketch or drawing depicting distances and points of the compass and showing the location and area of the public way or easement;
   B.   The legal description of the public way or easement to be closed;
   C.   If an easement is being closed, the purpose for which the easement was originally given;
   D.   If the easement or public way was established by any instrument (other than a subdivision plat) filed in the office of the county clerk, a copy of such instrument duly certified by the county clerk;
   E.   If the easement or public way was established by statutory dedication pursuant to a recorded subdivision plat, the name of the subdivision and plat number;
   F.   If the applicant seeks to close a public way, the application shall state whether or not such public way has been open for public use within the five (5) year period immediately preceding the date of the filing of such application; if such public way has been open for public use within that period of time, the applicant shall furnish a list, certified by a bonded abstractor, containing the names and addresses of all owners of record, as shown by the current year's tax rolls in the office of the county treasurer, of property abutting the public way and such other owners of record whose property is within three hundred feet (300') in any direction from the public way sought to be closed; and
   G.   Such additional information as may be determined by the planning commission to be necessary for evaluating the application. (Ord. 2015-13, 8-18-2015)