In vacating any street or part thereof, or in changing the name of any street, the Council may include in one ordinance the change of name or the vacation or narrowing of more than one street, avenue or alley; but before vacating any street or partthereof or narrowing any street, the Council shall first pass a resolution declaring its intention so to do. The Mayor, regardless of his or her approval of said resolution, shall cause notice of such resolution to be served, in the manner that service of summons is required to be made in civil actions, upon all persons whose property abuts upon the portion of the street affected by the proposed vacation or narrowing, and by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City as to all persons who cannot be personally served. Said notice shall state the time and place at which objections to such change can be heard before the Board of Revision of Assessments. Upon the report by the Board of Revision of Assessments approving the proposed vacation or narrowing, the Council by ordinance may declare such vacation or narrowing which ordinance shall be subject to Sections 43A and 43B of this Charter. Such order of the Council vacating or narrowing a street or alley which has not been dedicated to public use by the proprietor, shall, to the extent to which it is vacated or narrowed, operate as a revocation of the acceptance thereof by the Council; but the right of way and easement therein of any lot owner shall not be impaired thereby.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)