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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 042761K - Land Acquisition - H.W. Allen - Section 77 Block A - 04/27/1961RE S OLUT ION DLr / tt k) WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock and the State of Texas, by and through the State Highway Commission, have entered into a contract as empowered and authorized by Art. 6673-b, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, providing for the location, construction and maintenance of that part of the State Highway system, which has heretofore been designated as Loop 289 by the State Highway Commission; and, WHEREAS, under the terms of the contract the procurement and acquisition of the necessary land needed for road right of way purposes is the obligation of the City of Lubbock; and, WHEREAS, the State Highway Commission has deemed it necessary in order to make certain highway improvements in connection with said "Loop 289" situated in and adjacent to the City of Lubbock and to the end that this purpose be accomplished, the necessity of which is hereby confirmed by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock, it is necessary that fee simple title to the land hereinafter described be acquired by the City of Lubbock in fulfillment and satisfaction of its contractual obligations to the State of Texas; and, WHEREAS H. W. Allen and wife, Olga Carter Allen own or have some character interest in land needed for the location, construc- tion and maintenance of said Loop 289, and the value and total damages to the owners for the fee simple title to said land have been appraised in the amount of $l „600.00 and the Commission finds said amount to be fair and equitable; NOW THEREFORE: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: THAT the fee simple title to the following described land situated in Lubbock County, Texas, be acquired by the City of Lubbock for and on behalf of the State of Texas for the purpose of opening, constructing and maintaining in conjunction with the State Highway Commission, said "Loop 289" as a designated part of the State Highway System, which land is more particularly described as follows: 0.145 of one acre of land, being out of and a part of that certain 78 acre tract in the North J� of Section 77, Block A, which title was conveyed to H. W. Allen and Olga Carter Allen by deeds recorded in Volume 169, Page 210 Volume 222, Page 177 and Volume 317, Page 30, Deed Records of Lubbock Count Texas and by an affidavit recorded in Volume 324, Page 146, Deed Records of Lubbock County, Texas. Said 0.145 of one acre is more particularly describ by metes and bounds as follows: A strip of land 40.0 feet in width, lying 20.0 feet East and 20.0 feet West of the following described centerline: BEGINNING at a point in the South right-of-way line of a proposed freeway, said point being 1940.7 feet South and 690.0 feet West from the Northeast corner of said Section 77; �i THENCE S 0°17' E, 158.2 feet to a point in the South boundary line of said H. W. Allen tract, being also the North boundary line of the I�Virginia Russell Pack tract, said point being 2098.8 feet South and S 89°40' vi, 690.0 feet from the Northeast corner of said Section 77. THAT the owners of said land be offered, through the Right of Way Department, the amount appraised as the value and total damages for the fee simple title and acquisition of said land for the purposes herein stated, for the use and benefit of the City of Lubbock and State of Texas, and unless accepted forthwith the City Attorney is hereby authorized and i.nstruc� ted to institute condemnation proceedings to acquire the fee simple title to said land as hereinabove described for highway purposes. Approved and passed by unanimous vote of the Commission this 27th i day of April , 19-61 4 i, aa. DAVID C. CASEY, Mayo a� � ATTEST: I&- 4191kee 02 Lav is Lowe, Cit Secretary -Treasurer i � i