HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 096 ORDINANCE NO. ~
AN ORDINANCE OF ThE CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS, ABANDONING
PORTIONS OF FUQUA ROAD AND GRIFFIN ROAD (ALSO KNOWN AS CAMEY ROAD)
IN FAVOR OF THE ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNER, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
~.~CEINES CORPORATION, FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF
FORTY-SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY-SIX DOLLARS AND TWENTY-FIVE
CENTS ($46,746.25); PROVIDING THAT SUCh ABANDONMENT SHALL BE ALL
THE INTEREST WHICH T~[E CITY ~Y LEGALLY AND LAWFULLY ABANDON; PRO-
VIDING THAT SAID ORDINANCE SHALL CONSTITUTE A QUIT CLAIM DEED THAT
MAY BE RECORDED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHE~REAS, the City of The Colony has determined that the following
portions of Fuqua Road and Griffin Road (also known as Camey Road),
both of which constitute streets and rights-of-ways owned in fee or
used by easement, are no longer needed for public purposes and should
be abandoned; and
WHEREAS, International Business Machines Corporation, the owner
of the abutting property on either side of such streets, desires
that such streets be abandoned in favor of it for and in consideration
of the payment of the fair market value of the land and improvements
therein contained as determined by an appraisal obtained by the City;
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF THE COLONY,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the hereafter described portions of Fuqua Road
and Griffin Road (also known as Camey Road) within the limits of
the City of The Colony are no longer needed or necessary for public
purposes ss streets or rights-of-way and should be abandoned in favor
of the abutting property owner, International Business Machines Cor-
portation. The portions of said roads being abandoned herein are
described as follows, to-wit:
SECTION 2. The above described portions of Fuqua Road and
Griffin Road (also known as Camey Road) be, and the same are hereby,
abandoned in favor of International Business Machines Corporation, the
owner of the abutting property, for and in consideration of the sum
of Forty-Six Thousand Seven Bundred and Forty-Six Dollars and 5'wenty-
Five Cents ($46,746.25), said amount being the fair market value of
the land and improvements thereon as determined by an appraisal obtained
by the City.
SECTION 3. That this abandonment ordinance shall constitute a
quit claim deed in favor of International Business Machines Corpor-
ation, the owner of the abutting property on either side of the
described portions of said roads, and a certified copy of the same
may be filed in the Deed Records of Denton County, Texas, to indicate
such abandonment.
SECTION 4. That the abandonment provided for herein shall ex-
tend only to the public right, title and interest in and to sai~
portions of Fuqua Road and Griffin Road (also known as Camey Road)
as such public right, title and interest may exist in fee or by
prescriptive right, shall include all of the said public right,
title and interest of the City of The Colony, and shall be construed
to extend only to the interest that the governing body of the City
of The Colony may legally and lawfully abandon.
SECTION 5. The provisions of this ordinance are severable, and
should any section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase hereof be
declared unconstitutional or void, such declaration shall not effect
any of the remaining portions hereof.
SECTION 6. This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and
after its passage and the publication of the caption as the law and
charter in such cases provide.
THIS ORDINANCE WAS READ IN AN OPEN ~ETING OE THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS, ON THE C~/ DAY OF ~'~z2~_.,
1980. ~
THIS ORDINANCE WAS PASSED ON SECOND tLEADING ON THE ~ DAY
OF ~ 1980
APPROVED:
FUQUA ROAD AND A PORTION OF CAMEY ROAD
Being all of the right-of-way of two public roads situated
in the B.B.B. & C.R.R. Co. Surveys, Abstract Nos. 172, 173,
and. 174, Denton County, Texas whose centerline is more
particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at the point of intersection of
the East line of the 50 foot Lone Star Gas
Co. easement with the common abstract line
of the B.B.B. & C.R.R. Co. Survey, Abstract
Nos. 172 and 173, being in the center of
the public road commonly known as Camey
Road or Griffin Road;
THENCE South 89° 44' 13" East, along the
center of said road a distance of 662.5
feet to the Northeast corner of the B.B.B.
& C.R.R. Co. Survey, Abstract No. 173;
THENCE South 0° 12' 14" East, along the
center of a public road commonly known as
Fuqua Road and the common abstract line of
the B.B.B. & C.R.R. Co. Surveys, Abstract~
Nos. 173 and 174, a distance of 3545.10
feet to a point in the Northwest R.O.W.
line of Texas State Highway No. 121.
Together with all of the rightlof-way on either side of the
center line of said roads, a width of 40 feet more or less,
but including all of said right-of-way regardless of its
width.