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RESOLUTION
3 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.
.1� . 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 ad-
jacent to the City of Lubbock and to the end that this purpose be accomplished, the
necessity of which is hereby confirmed by the City Council 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 obliga-
tions to the State of Texas; and,
WHEREAS, W. E. Armstrong and wife, Zelma Louise Armstrong
own or have some character interest in land 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 land have been appraised in the amount of $1,450.00
and the Council finds said amount to be fair and equitable; NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL 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:
2.640 acres of land, same being a part of and out of the Southeast one quarter of
Section 1, Block J-S which land was conveyed to W. E. Armstrong by deed dated
December 10, 1948, of records in Volume 377, Page 234, Deed Records of Lubbock
County, Texas which 2.640 acres of land is more particularly described by metes and
bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at the point of intersection of the Northwesterly right of way line of
Loop 289 and the East boundary line of said Section 1, said point being 1882.4 feet
North of the Southeast corner of said Section 1;
THENCE South 530 03' West 500.0 feet along the said Northwesterly right of way line
of Loop 289 to a point; ,
THENCE North 361 57' West 230.0 feet to a point;
THENCE North 531 03' East 500.0 feet along a line parallel to and 230.0 feet North-
westerly from said Northwesterly right of way line;
THENCE South 361 57' East 230.0 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 instructed to institute condemnation proceedings
to acquire the fee simple title to said land as herein above described for highway
purposes.
Approved and passed by unanimous vote of the Council this 25th
day of March 19 65
MAX TID ORE, Mayor
ATTEST: Form Approved
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LAVENIA OWE, -City-.Se .etary-Treasurer