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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.