CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS
ECONOMIC AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Planning and Economic Development Division
REQUEST FOR VACATION
Utility Easement of Public Right of Way
(please Type)
To: The Mayor and City Council Date: _________________________________
Members of the City Plan Commission
The undersigned, ________________________________________________________, hereby request the
vacation of the following: __________ EASEMENT VACATION ____________ ROW VACATION
legally described as follows
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Located at: ____________________________________________________________________________
Address and phone number of petitioner/owner Address and phone number of representative
(Fax number, e-mail address) (Fax number, e-mail address)
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PETITIONER REQUIREMENTS:
1. Plat of area proposed for vacation.
2. All appropriate utility companies and franchise holders will be contacted regarding the requested
vacation. Please provide copies of the utility company responses.
3. All property owners with land abutting the property to be vacated shall be served proper notice by
letter delivered by certified mail. Please provide copies of documentation.
UTILITY EASEMENTS ONLY
4. If compensation is required (due to the individual nature of each request) an approved recent
appraisal, at the expense of the owner, will be required.
PUBLIC PROPERTY/ROW VACATIONS ONLY
4. Compensation shall be required based upon an approved recent appraisal at the expense of the
petitioner. Whenever any appraisal indicates compensation to be pain in excess of $2000, a second
appraisal (at the expense of the City) will be commissioned; the higher appraisal of the two will be
utilized to determine compensation paid to the City.
5. All requests for property vacation should be submitted to the Plan Commission for public hearing.
Signature of Petitioner ________________________________________________
