HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 84ORDINANCE NO. 84
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS, ANNEXING
THE HERINAFTER DESCRIBED TERRITORY TO THE CITY OF THE COLONY.
DENTON CONTY, TEXAS, AND EXTENDING THE BOUNDARY LIMITS OF SAID
CITY SO AS TO INCLUDE SAID PROPERTY WITHIN SAID CITY LIMITS AND
GRANTING ALL PRIVILEGES OF OTHER CITIZENS AND BINDING ALL
INHABITANTS BY ALL THE ACTS, ORDINANCE AND REGULATIONS OF SAID
CITY: PROVIDNG FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE EXTRATERRITORIAL
JURISDICTION OF THE CITY; PROVIDING SEVERABILITY: AND PROVIDING
FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF SAID ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, the City of The Colony Staff has heretofore
proposed the annexation of all the property hereinafter
described, requesting the City Council to annex said territories
and extend the corporate limits of said City; and,
WHEREAS, after holding public hearing under the provisions
of Article 970a of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas; and,
WHEREAS, the following described land is adjoining the
present City Limits of the City of The Colony, and the members
of the City Council of the City of The Colony have concluded
that said area should be annexed and made a part of the City
of The Colony, Texas:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the following described territory be,
and the same is hereby annexed to the City of The Colony, Denton,
County, Texas, and the boundary limits of the City of The Colony
be, and the same are hereby extended to include the following
described territory within the City Limits of the City of The
Colony, and the same hereafter shall be included within the
territorial limits of said City, and the inhabitants therefore
hereafter shall be entitled to all rights and privileges of
other citizens of the City of The Colony; and shall be bound
by the acts, ordinances, resolutions and regulations of said
City. That the territory to be so annexed is more particularly
described as follows, to -wit:
All that certain lot, tract, or parcel of land, lying in
the County of Denton, State of Texas, and being a part
of a certain First Tract of 156.5 acre tract of land as
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conveyed by deed dated September 7, 1950, from
John A Griffin and wife, Jennie Griffin, to John A.
Griffin, Jr. and wife, Dorothy Griffin_, Trustee, as
shown of record in Volume 375, page 256, of the Deed
Records of Denton County, Texas; being out of the
]BBB & CRR Co. Survey, A-172, and being more particularly
described as follows:
BEGINNING at a steel pin in the North boundary
line of an East and West public road whose width is 40
feet, and being North, 20 feet from, and South, 89
degrees, 10 min. East, 295.19 feet from, the Southwest
corner of the past mentioned John A. Griffin, Jr.
156.5 acre tract; same being the Southeast corner of a
two acre tract, now in the name of J.Y. Eberhart and
wife, Vera Eberhart;
THENCE North, 295.19 feet to a steel pin for
the Northeast corner of the above mentioned Eberhart two
acre tract;
THENCE South 89 degrees, 10 min. East, 76.4 feet,
to a steel pin for corner;
THENCE South 01 degree, 02 min., 54 seconds West,
295.16 feet, to a steel pin for corner in North boundary
line of an East and West public road whose width is
40 feet;
THENCE North 89 degrees, 10 min. West, 71.00 feet,
to point of beginning, and containing .499 of an acre
of land.
SECTION 2. That it is not the intention of the City of
The Colony to annex any territory not legally subject to being
annexed by said City, and should any portion of the above des-
cribed territory not be subject to legal annexation by the City
of The Colony, such fact will not prevent the City from annexing
such territory which is above described and is subject to legal
annexations by the City, and it is the intention of the City
of The Colony to annex only such territory as may be legally
annexed by it within the limits of the above described area.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect immedia-
tely from and after its passage and the publication of the
caption as the law and charter in such cases provide.
DULY PASSED ON FIRST READING BY THE CITYCOUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS ON �(_ DAY OF 1979•
FINALLY PASSED ON SECOND READING ON THE DAY OF
1950.
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APPROVED:
DULY RECORDED:
APPROVED AS TO LEGALITY
OF THE FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY