HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 061460F - ROW Offer - Cox & Lacy - Loop 289 Improvements, Section 18 Block A - 06_14_1960 RESOLUTION
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 Sam H. Corx, Jr. and Pars. Nettie Phillips Lacy
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 $ 300.00 and the Commission finds said amount to be fair
and equitable; NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION 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:
0.084 of one acre, same being out of and a part of a certain one acre tract
out of the east one half of Section 18, Block A, which one acre tract was
conveyed to Sang H. Cox, Jr. , by deed dated 1 Feb. '58, of record in voll 688,
page 513, Deed Records of Lubbock County, Texas , which 0.084 of one acre is
more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the southwest right-of-way line of the present
US HV. 84, said point being 2949 feet north and 265.0 feet west of the
southeast corner of Section 18 ; THENCE south, 23.9 feet; THENCE N 61,04, V ,
139.5 feet ; THENCE north, 35.8 feet to the southwest right-of-way line of
said US•,Hwy. 84; THENCE S 56*57' E, 145.7 feet to the place of beginning.
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 instruc-
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 14th
day of June 1960 ,
DAVID 0. CASEY, May w
ATTEST:
Lav nia Lowe, ity Secr tart'-Treasurer