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## TOWN OF KENTVILLE POLICY STATEMENT G73 STREET CLOSURE POLICY: PORTION OF CRESCENT AVE
## 1.0 PURPOSE
The purpose of this policy is to confirm the permanent closure of a portion of Crescent Ave, a Street within the Town of Kentville.
## 2.0 SCOPE
WHEREAS Section 315 of the Municipal Government Act allows Council by policy to permanently close any street or part of a street;
AND WHEREAS a small part of Crescent Avenue in the Town of Kentville is being altered and is intended to be closed to public use;
AND WHEREAS the remainder of Crescent Avenue remains open to vehicular and pedestrian traffic;
AND WHEREAS the part of Crescent Avenue that remains open meets all the municipal standards;
AND WHEREAS the part of the street to be closed has been determined by the Town Engineer to be surplus;
AND WHEREAS the part of the street to be closed is worth less than $50,000.00;
BE IT RESOLVED BY POLICY THAT a portion of the street known as Crescent Avenue as described hereafter be closed and all rights of public user in the lands theretofore used for the purpose of a public street are forever extinguished. THE PORTION of the street to be closed to public use is bounded and described as follows:
ALL the land now or formerly belonging to the estate of William Redden north and east of Pleasant Avenue and described as follows:
COMMENCING at Harry Redden's now or formerly northwest corner running East on said Harry Redden north line two hundred and twenty feet or until it strikes land now or formerly of estate of the late T. L. Dodge;
THENCE running Northeasterly along said Dodge land one hundred and forty-five feet or until it strikes the south line now or formerly of the Dominion Atlantic Railway;
THENCE running Westerly along the said railway until it strikes the now or formerly W. H Chipman land;
THENCE running on the west side of the Mill Brook and the different courses as described in the deed from C. H. Rand to said William Redden until it strikes the north side of Main Street;
THENCE crossing the said street on the west side of the bridge and following the west side of said Mill Brook and the different courses as described in the deed from Thomas Hancock to said William Redden until it strikes the now or formerly J. W. Margeson land;
THENCE crossing the said Mill Brook and thence easterly until it strikes the west line of the Mill Brook Road;
THENCE running Northerly along the west side of said Mill Brook Road until it strikes the old mill property now or formerly occupied by the said John Redden;
THENCE West about twenty-four feet to the east side of said Mill Brook and following the said Mill Brook on the east side along its different courses and crossing said Main Street and running along said John Redden west line until it strikes the northeast corner of lands now or formerly of Richard Harris formerly called the D. N. Slack place;
THENCE on said Harris' east line seventy-five feet or until it strikes the north side of said Pleasant Avenue;
THENCE Easterly and Southerly along said Pleasant Avenue to the place of beginning;
SAVING AND EXCEPTING all land north and west of the south and east bank of Mill Brook;
AND ALSO SAVING AND EXCEPTING all land south of the north side of Main Street;
AND ALSO SAVING AND EXCEPTING all those lots of land described in the following deeds recorded in the Kings County Registry of Deeds:
1. Deed dated December 20, 1912 and recorded on December 31, 1912 in Book 106, at Page 725, as Document no.: 452;
2. Deed dated April 1, 1915 and recorded on April 27, 1915 in Book 113, at Page 158, as Document no.: 88;
3. Deed dated June 16, 1916 and recorded on June 24, 1916 in Book 115, at Page 620, as Document no.: 352;
4. Deed dated November 1919 and recorded on July 21, 1920 in Book 128, at Page 617, as Document no.: 290;
5. Deed dated September 12, 1922 and recorded on September 16, 1922 in Book 136, at Page 673, as Document no.: 250;
6. Deed dated November 16, 1922 and recorded on July 21, 1932 in Book 152, at Page 107;
## Town of Kentville, Policy G: Street Closure Policy: A portion of Crescent Ave
7. Deed dated April 23, 1926 and recorded on June 19, 1926 in Book 145, at Page 453;
BEING AND INTENDED TO BE a portion of a public street now known as Crescent Avenue (formerly known as Pleasant Avenue Extension) in Town of Kentville and being a public street vested in Town of Kentville pursuant to the Municipal Government Act, SNS 1998, c. 18, s. 308.
FURTHER BEING AND INTENDED TO BE Lot K as shown on Plan of Subdivision of Lot GK, in a Consolidation of Lot G, Lands of Glooscap Curling Club of Kentville, Nova Scotia, and Lot K Lands of the Town of Kentville, at 17/19 Crescent Avenue, Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia, P.I.D. 55255525 and 55417588, prepared by Dylan M. Mossman, NSLS #677, dated December 17, 2019, and DWG. NO. 190222-04.
Clerk's Annotation For Official Policy Book
Date of Passage of Current Policy:
Date of filing with the Minister of Transportation and Public Works:
February 24, 2020
March 10, 2020
I certify that this Policy was adopted by Council as indicated above.
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ally Kui
Clerk
Date: March 10,2020
Copy: Minister of Transportation and Public Works