HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 221 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS, ANNEXING
THE HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED TERRITORY TO THE CITY OF THE COLONY,
DENTON COUNTY, 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, ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS
OF SAID CITY; PROVIDING FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE EXTRATERRITORIAL
JURISDICTION OF THE CITY; PROVIDING AN EMERGENCY CLAUSE; PROVIDING
SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF SAID
ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, the City of The Colony has heretofore received
a petition from the owner of all the property hereinafter
described, requesting it 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
thereof 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 tract and parcel of land situated in
the M. Hunt Survey, Abstract Number 642, Denton County, Texas,
and being part of a tract of land described in a deed from
Raymond Reeves to B. B. Owen, ~ecorded in Volume 539, Page
378 of the Deed Records of Denton County, Texas, and being
more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at an iron pin at the Southwest Corner of the
W. D. Duffield Survey, Abstract #361, same being in the
East line of said Hunt Survey in the center of an abandoned
East-West road, said beginning point being North 19.0
feet from a 22" elm tree;
THENCE South 82° 04' 16" West, along or near the center-
line of a road (road abandoned for most of distance)
passing at 492.6' feet, the East line of a public road
and continuing on said course and passing at 862.0 feet,
more or less, the West line of said public road as it
bends toward the south and continuing on said course
along or near the centerline of an abandoned road, a
total distance of 2,636.75 feet to a 2" ±ron pipe four]d
for a corner;
THENCE North 00° 40' 40" West, along or near a fence
line, 1,013.73 feet to a 2' pipe set for a corner;
THENCE North 89° 19' 20" East, 2,618.71 feet to a steel pin
set in a North-South public road, same being the East boundary
line of said Hunt Survey, same being the West boundary line
of said Duffield Survey;
THENCE South 00° 25' 15" East, 680.94 feet to the PLACE OF
BEGINNING and containing in all 50.90 acres of land, of which
.90 acres is contained in said public road, leaving a net
acreage of 50.00 acres 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-described terri-
tory 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 annexation 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 is is hereby officially found and determined
that a case of emergency or urgent public necessity exists which
requires the holding of a meeting at which this ordinance is passed
such emergency or urgent public necessity being that the land
is needed as a site for a proposed school facility for children
from the City of The Colony, and that said meeting was open to
the public, and that this ordinance was passed in accordance with
Section 3.10 of the Home Rule Charter.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall take effect immediately
from and after its passage as the law and charter in such cases
provide.
DULY PASSED THE CITY CO LO THE CITY Or THE COLONY,
TEXAS, ON THE ~~ DaY OF~~~ , 1982.
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APPROVED:
GENE POBLARD~ ~YOR
ATTEST:
JJ [CE CARROLL, CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ROBERT L. DILLARD III, CITY
ATTORNEY