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i958] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS I20I
payment for this project, state officials indicate that they can not agree to
restrict belt route truck traffic from using the street. However, representatives
of the cities of Champaign and IJrbana have agreed that the cities will endeavor
to impose and maintain reasonable restrictions on such traffic.
The Director of the Physical Plant Department, the Vice-President and
Comptroller, and the Legal Counsel recommend that the land owned by the
University be conveyed in a right-of-way easement to the state of Illinois.
I concur, and recommend that the following resolution be adopted:
Resolution
WHEREAS the authorities of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois,
of Champaign County, Illinois, and the State of Illinois have reached an agreement
to construct and maintain a public roadway extending from Neil Street in
the City of Champaign to Lincoln Avenue in the City of Urbana, which will
constitute an extension of Kirby and Florida Avenues in said cities, and the
following described land, title to which is now held by the University of Illinois,
will be needed by them for said purpose; and
WHEREAS the construction and maintenance of said proposed public roadway
will benefit the University of Illinois in various ways, and, in addition thereto,
the City of Champaign, in consideration of the granting by the University to the
State of Illinois acting by and through the Director of the Department of Public
Works and Buildings of said State of an easement of right-of-way over said land
needed for said public roadway and title to which is now held by the University
of Illinois, has agreed to vacate a portion of an existing public highway situated
between First and Fourth Streets in said City of Champaign and north of the
north line of said proposed new roadway, as the result of which the University
of Illinois as the present owner of the land adjacent to said portion of said
existing public street or highway which is to be vacated will become the owner
of said vacated portion thereof, and it is in the best interests of the University of
Illinois, and will be advantageous to it, therefore, to grant an easement of rightof-way
to the State of Illinois, acting by and through the Director of its Department
of Public Works and Buildings, over and across the following described
land so that said proposed public roadway, constituting an extension of Florida
and Kirby Avenues in the cities of Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, can be
constructed and maintained thereon:
Therefore, it is hereby resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University
of Illinois, that the Comptroller and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of
the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, be, and
they are hereby authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name
and in behalf of said public corporation, an instrument of conveyance in the
form of a grant of right-of-way easement, and other documents in connection
therewith, as they and the Legal Counsel of the University of Illinois may find
necessary or desirable, in order to effect a conveyance from said public corporation
to the State of Illinois, acting by and through the Director of its Department
of Public Works and Buildings, of a right-of-way easement for the purpose
of improving and extending Florida Avenue from Lincoln Avenue in the City of
Urbana, Illinois, to First Street in the City of Champaign and of extending
Florida Avenue from First Street to Neil Street in the City of Champaign so
as to connect with Kirby Avenue in said last mentioned city, over, upon, and
across the following described lands, viz.:
Tract A
Situated in the State of Illinois, the County of Champaign, and the City of
Champaign and being also parts of Section 13, Township 19 North, Range 8
East and Section 24, Township 19 North, Range 8 East of the 3rd Principal
Meridian, and being further bounded and described as follows: Beginning at
the intersection of the east line of the right-of-way of the Illinois Central
Railroad and the south line of said Section 13, said right-of-way line being south
°t the south line of Section 13 where the right-of-way of the Illinois Central
Railroad is 215 feet in width; thence west and along the south line of said
Section 13, a distance of 9.06 feet to a corner; thence north 6°-47' east, and
along the east right-of-way line of the Illinois Central Railroad, a distance of