HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 121158F - Land Acquisition - Southwestern Industrial Products Co - Smithlawn Addition - 12/11/1958RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock and the State of Texas, by and through.
the State Highway Commission, Wave entered into a contract as empowered
and authorised 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 High-
way.-Commission;
ighway. CommisSion; and,
WHEREAS, under the terms of the contract the procurement and acquisiti
of the necessary land needed for road right of way purposes is the obligation of
City of Lubbock; and,
WHEREAS, the. State Highway Commission has deemed it necessary in orde
to make certain hghway improvements in connection with said "Loop 289" situate
in and adjacent to' the City of Lubbock and to the end that this purpose be accom-
plished, 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, Southwestern Industrial Products Company, J. L. Leaverton,
President, and Chippewa 14oldin Inc. , Don lliams, President, 309 Howard
Street, , hi pewa, Wisconsin, and Jack D. Wz ams,
own.or. av some character inter est.in-A-and needed for the location, construction
and maintenance of said Loop 289, and the value and total damages 'to the owners
for the fee simple title to said 1and have been appraised in the amount of
$ 21,000_00 and, the dommission finds said amount to be fair and
equitable; NOW THEREFORE: '
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE 'CITY COMMISSION OF THE CI -TY OF LUBBOCK:`
THAT the fee simple title to the follo de sC:r#,bed land situated ; in Lub-
bock County, Texas, be ;acquired by the 10ity of. Lttbb"k 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:
All of Lots 5 and 6, Block 12, Smithlawn Addition to the
City of Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas '
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THAT the owners of said land be offered, through -the Right of Way Depart-
ment, 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 instructed 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 11th
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day of December 1958
LENNIS BAKER, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Lavenia Lowe, City Secretar�r-Treasurer
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