The City shall have exclusive control of all alleys, streets,
gutters, and sidewalks situated within the City, and the power to
lay out, establish, open, alter, extend, widen, straighten, abandon,
close, lower, grade, narrow, care for, supervise, maintain, and improve
any public street, alley, avenue, boulevard, or public thoroughfare
and for any such purposes to acquire the necessary lands and to appropriate
the same under the power of eminent domain. The City shall also have
the power to name or rename, vacate and abandon and sell and convey
in fee that portion of any street, alley, avenue, boulevard, or other
public thoroughfare or public grounds, and to convey in fee the same
in exchange for other lands, over which any street, alley, avenue,
boulevard, or public thoroughfare may be laid out, established, and
opened; and the City's right to sell and dispose of in fee any part
of a street, alley, avenue, boulevard or public thoroughfare so vacated
and abandoned, or the City's right to convey same in exchange for
other lands to be used in laying out, opening, widening, and straightening
any street, shall never be questioned in any of the Courts of this
State. The procedure for closing streets and alleys shall be in conformity
with due process of law and shall be particularly prescribed and provided
for by ordinance passed in the usual manner by the City Council.
[Ordinance 1473-23 adopted 5/16/2023]
