HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 17 - Walker PlaceMEMOTO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: BRUNO RUMBELOW, CITY MANAGER
MEETING DATE: OCTOBER 6, 2020
SUBJECT: FIVE FOOT WIDE UTILITY EASEMENT ABANDONME-IT3212
WALKER PLACE
RECOMMENDATION: City Council consider adopting an ordinance abandoning a five-foot
portion of a 15 -foot wide utility easement on Lot 4, Block 1, Walker Farms,
and take any necessary action.
FUNDING SOURCE:
BACKGROUND: The property owner located at 3212 Walker Place has requested that the
City abandon five feet of a 15-footwide utility easement. The public
franchise utility companies have agreed to the abandonment. The utility
easement was originally dedicated from the Walker Farms plat in
September 2000.
Staff recommends approval.
ORDINANCE NO. 2020-048
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, ABANDONING AND VACATING A
PORTION OF A 15 FOOT UTILITY ON LOT 4, BLOCK 1,
WALKER FARMS CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS AS
HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED
WHEREAS, Lot 4, Block 1, Walker Farms of Grapevine located at 3212 Walker
Place, City of Grapevine, Tarrant County, Texas has requested that 5 feet of a 15 foot
Utility Easement of said lot, as herein after described, be abandoned and vacated; and
WHEREAS, this easement was originally dedicated to the City as a 15 foot Utility
Easement on the plat of Lot 4, Block 1, Walker Farms according to Cabinet A, Slide 6344;
and
WHEREAS, the applicant has received signatures from all public franchise utility
companies and the portion of the easement is not needed for public use and will not be
needed in the future for public use; and
WHEREAS, abandoning and vacating the said portion of the easement will relieve
the City of Grapevine, Texas from the cost and expense of maintaining said property; and
WHEREAS, all constitutional and statutory prerequisites for the approval of this
ordinance have been met, including but not limited to the Open Meetings Act; and
WHEREAS, the City Council deems the adoption of this ordinance to be in the best
interests of the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS:
Section 1. That the above premises are found to be true and correct and are
incorporated into the body of this ordinance as if copied in their entirety.
Section 2. That the 705 square feet Utility Easement located on Lot 4, Block 1,
Walker Farms in "Exhibit 1" and "Exhibit 2", attached hereto and incorporated herein forall
purposes, is hereby abandoned and vacated for public use and the same is hereby
abandoned and vacated insofar as all public right, title, interest in and to said right of way
is concerned.
Section 3. That the terms and provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed to be
severable, and that if the validity of any section, subsection, word, sentence or phrase
shall be held to be invalid, it shall not affect the remaining part of this ordinance.
Section 4. The fact that the easement is no longer needed by the public for public
usage and would create a hardship or burden upon the City of Grapevine to keep open
and maintain such easement creates an urgency and an emergency for the immediate
preservation of the public health, safety, and general welfare which requires that this
ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage and it is accordingly so
ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS on this the day of 6t" October, 2020.
APPROVED:
William D. Tate
Mayor
ATTEST:
Tara Brooks
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
Ordinance No. 2020-048 2
Exhibit 1
FIELD NOTES
Dated: September 18, 2020
SITUATED in the State of Texas, County of Tarrant and City of Grapevine, being part of
Lot 4, Block 1 of Walker Farms an addition to the City of Grapevine as recorded in
Cabinet A, Slide 6344 of the Plat Records of Tarrant County, said premises being more
particularly described as follows;
BEGINNING at a point for corner marking the northeast corner of said premises, said
corner bears South 00°02'07" East, 10.00 feet from the northeast corner of said Lot 4,
said corner being on the east line of said Lot 4;
THENCE with the east line of said premises and said Lot, South 00°02'07" East, 5.00
feet to a point for corner marking the southeast corner of said premises;
THENCE departing said east line and with the south line of said premises, South
89057'53" West, 141.11 feet to a point for corner marking the southwest corner of said
premises and being in the west line of said Lot;
THENCE with the west line of said premises and said Lot, North 00°02'07" West, 5.00
feet to a point for corner making the northwest corner of said premises;
THENCE departing said west line and with the north line of said premises, North
89°57'53" East, 141.11 feet to the point of beginning and containing 705 square feet of
land.
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