Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 1204]

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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. T h e 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 W o r k s 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 W o r k s 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, a n d 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