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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. Vacating of Easement, Champaign

(26) T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends adoption of the following resolution for the vacation of easement for a private road ten feet wide north of privately owned property on the north side of Daniel Street between Sixth and Wright Streets, Champaign, a distance of 100 feet and connecting to Daniel Street a distance of 74.68 feet. The properties on which the University has the right of easement include two business establishments which presently permit patrons to use doors from the rear of their businesses resulting in considerable pedestrian traffic and littering through an adjacent University parking lot. In exchange for vacating this easement the owner of one of the establishments has agreed to construct an addition to his facilities in a manner that will restrict current pedestrian traffic flow through the University parking lot. The owner of the other establishment has agreed to maintain an existing fence and rear building exits in a manner that will also restrict such pedestrian traffic flow.

Resolution Authorizing Vacation of and Quit Claim of Interest in Easement Appurtenant to Property at 810 South Sixth Street, Champaign, Illinois

Whereas Delbert R. Enochs and Nellie McW. Enochs as owners of the South Half (S Vi) of the Southwest Quarter (SW W) (except the West 75 feet thereof) of Block 13 of J. S. Wright's Addition to the City of Champaign, situated in Champaign County, Illinois — across the North ten feet and the East ten feet of which there then was a private road extending from the West line of said tract to Daniel Street in the City of Champaign in said County and State — by Easement Grant dated August 25, 1926, and filed for record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Champaign County, Illinois, on September 29, 1926, in Book 204 on Page 201, as Document No. 205574, granted to Birdie A. Rhoads as owner of land adjoining the above-described premises on the West, unto the said grantee, her heirs, executors, and assigns, the full and free right for her, said grantee, and her tenants, servants, visitors, and licensees to pass and repass over and across said private roadway between the points above named for all purposes connected with the land of said grantee, to have and to hold said easement to said grantee, her heirs, executors, and assigns, as an appurtenance to the lands of said grantee for a period of 99 years from date; and Whereas T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public Corporation, holds title to the property at 810 South Sixth Street, Champaign, Illinois, which constitutes a portion of the property then owned by Birdie A. Rhoads; and Whereas it is deemed desirable for this Corporation to release and convey its interest in said easement area to the present owners of the land held by the original easement grantor upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Now, Therefore, Be It and It Hereby Is Resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public Corporation of the State of Illinois, that %ke Comptroller and Secretary of this Corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to enter into an agreement or agreements with all or part of the owners of the servient lands providing for the release and conveyance to such owners of this Corporation's interest in the easement area upon the following terms and conditions: In exchange for vacating this easement the owner of one of the major establishments shall agree to construct an addition to his facilities in a