No street or town way shall be laid out, widened, altered, or discontinued unless a committee of the City Council, at least seven days before the hearing in relation thereto, shall give notice in writing to the several owners of all land over which the street or town way is proposed to be laid out, widened, altered or discontinued of the intention of the City Council to act upon such laying out, altering or discontinuing of the same and shall in such notice appoint a time and place for meeting and hearing all persons interested therein. Such notice shall be served by leaving the same at the usual place of abode of the owners of the land over which such way is proposed to be laid out or altered or delivering the same to such owner in person or to his tenant or authorized agent. If the owner has no such place of abode within the City and no tenant or authorized agent therein known to the committee, or if, being a resident within the City, he is not known as such to the committee, such notice shall be posted up in some public place within the City at least seven days before the time of hearing.
A. 
At the time and place appointed, and after notice given as provided in § 243-13, the committee shall meet and hear all parties interested who may claim to be heard and, if requested, shall proceed to view the premises. It shall report to the City Council whether the common convenience and necessity require that such street or town way should be laid out, altered or discontinued. If it decides that the same ought to be laid out, widened or discontinued, it shall report the boundaries and measurements of the street or town way as proposed to be laid out, widened or discontinued; the cost of constructing such streets or town ways; the names of the owners of all lands included therein and sustaining damage by laying out, widening, altering or discontinuing the same, with the amount of damage proper and reasonable to be awarded to each of the owners; and the names of all persons who may have claimed before the committee to be heard by the City Council in relation thereto.
B. 
After the report has been made to the City Council, if the same shall be in favor of laying out, altering or discontinuing the street or town way in question, it shall remain in the City Clerk's office for the term of at least seven days before the Council proceeds to act thereon.
After receiving the committee's report and in case it is in favor of the proposed laying out, alteration or discontinuance, if any parties interested shall have claimed before the committee, or within the limited term of seven days shall have signified to the City Clerk that they claim to be so heard, the City Council shall meet in convention to hear the parties and may proceed to adjudicate upon the subject matter of the report and if it sees fit may order that such street or town way be laid out, widened, altered or discontinued and may award to all persons sustaining damage thereby such compensation as the Council shall adjudge to be reasonable.
In case the City Council lays out, widens or alters any street or town way, it shall be the duty of the City Council to cause permanent landmarks and bounds of such street or town way to be established, in order that the exact limits thereof may be ascertained and perpetuated.
A. 
Required. Application for widening or straightening any county way within the City shall be made to the City Council in writing.
B. 
Referral to committee; hearing. Every application to the City Council for any purpose mentioned in Subsection A shall, unless the Council rejects the same, be referred to a committee, which shall appoint a time and place for meeting and hearing all parties interested therein and shall give notice thereof by causing a copy of such application, or an abstract containing the substance thereof, to be published in some newspaper published by the City, to be selected by the committee, three weeks successively, the last publication to be at least 14 days before the time appointed for such hearing. Two or more copies of such application or abstract shall be posted in public places in the City at least 14 days before the time of the hearing. In all other respects, the same proceedings are to be had upon such application as are provided for by this article in relation to town ways.
No street or town way shall be altered in its grade in such a manner as to damage any person in the convenient use and enjoyment of his interests in any real estate, unless the City Council shall first cause the like proceedings to be had with regard to notice, hearing, report and determination thereon as are provided in this article in the case of laying out town ways.
The provisions of this article shall not apply to the laying out and grading of streets under an act of the legislature approved May 11, 1853.