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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 2016-R0375 - Accept Easement In Crest Hill Addition For Nortwest Water Reclamation Project - 10/27/2016Resolution No.2016-R0375 Item No.6.11 October 27.2016 RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: THAT the City Council hereby accepts on behalf of the City of Lubbock an Easement as described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, located in Tract C. Crest Hill Addition, Lubbock, Lubbock County. Texas, for the Northwest Water Reclamation Project,and related documents. Said Easement is attached hereto and incorporated in this resolution as if fully set forth herein and shall be included in the minutes of the City Council. THAT the consideration for the Easement shall be $2,109.00 and that closing costs shall also be paid in connection with the purchase of the property,said payments approved herein. Passed bythe City Council on _ October 27.2016 . DANIEL M.POPE,MAYOR ATTEST: tJicL^, Rebecca Garza,City Secretary APPROVED AM'O CONTENT: .Wood branklin.P.E.,Director of Public Works /Pti^^/J>e^-t£^ Dave Booher.Riuht-of-Wav Auent APPROVED AS TO FORM: 1--.---J— Rvan Brooke.Assistant City Attorney RES.Easement-Tract C Crest Hill Addition 10.11.16 C7/4G- Resolution No.2016-R0375 2016044773 9 PGS EASE iin^iniMhMHLfwnwtiiiii EASEMENT STATEOF TEXAS § § KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT: COUNTYOF LUBBOCK § GRANTOR,HUB CITY INVESTMENTS I,LTD.,a Texas limited partnership,with street address of 833 E.40th Street,Lubbock,TX 79404,for a valuable consideration,to it paid by The City of Lubbock,Texas (the "Grantee")with offices at 1625 13th Street,Lubbock,Texas 79401,the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged,has granted and does by these presents grant unto Grantee the following described perpetual exclusive easement, servitude and right-of-way,as described herein (hereinafter called the "Easement")through, over,under,upon,across and within the lands,described in Exhibit A (hereinafter called the "Lands"or "Easement Lands")situated in Lubbock County,Texas. Pipelines and Equipment Grantor hereby grants to Grantee a perpetual exclusive Easement together with the right to install,survey,construct,reconstruct,install,operate,inspect,maintain,alter,relocate, replace,repair,and remove (hereinafter called "Permitted Uses")pipelines,conduits,drain (blow-off)valves,valve boxes,meters,meter boxes,vents,manholes,manhole covers,corrosion monitoring test stations,pipeline markers,fence gates,impressed current deep well anode stations with power supplies,flow meters,system communication lines and splice boxes, roadways,and all other equipment and facilities related thereto,or any part thereof (hereinafter collectively called the "Pipeline System"),for and/or related to the transportation of water,waste water and effluent through,under,upon,over,across and within the Lands.Such perpetual exclusive Easement shall be as described herein and on Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein,and hereby made a part hereof by reference to describe the Easement and the Lands. For Ten Dollars ($10.00)and other good and valuable consideration,the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged,this Easement is specifically made by Grantor and accepted by Grantee subject to the following terms,covenants,obligations and conditions: 1.Grantee may use and occupy the Easement for purposes incidental and/or related to the Permitted Uses,including but not limited to:(a)the right to perform all Permitted Uses related to the Pipeline System;(b)the right (for men,material,and equipment)of unimpaired ingress and egress and regress,entry and access in,to,through, on,over,under and across said Easement granted herein,with the right to ingress and egress and regress to and from and access on and along said Easement,for any and all purposes necessary and or incident to the Permitted Uses;and(c)the right to locate the Pipeline System through,over,under,upon,across and within the Easement for the purpose of water/waste water/effluent transportation. Final Easement 2. Grantee covenants and agrees that its use of the Easement and its operations conducted thereon shall, to the best of Grantee's ability, at all times comply with all applicable local, state and federal laws, orders, rules, regulations, standards, licensing, permitting and other legal requirements including, without limitation, all environmental laws, orders, rules, regulations, standards, licensing and permitting (the "Legal Requirements"'). Grantee agrees to construct the Pipeline System in a prudent manner and with due care for Grantor's property, business and operations. In the event it is discovered that Grantee is in violation of any portion of the Legal Requirements, Grantee agrees to commence, upon receipt of written notice of such violation, the process of curing such violation so that Grantee will be in compliance with this subparagraph. 3. The Easement granted herein shall be for the transportation of water, waste water, and/or effluent regardless of source, and shall continue in full force and effect unless Grantee should abandon the Pipeline System as identified herein. The rights granted to Grantee herein may be abandoned solely by a formal resolution of its governing body that authorizes the abandonment of the Pipeline System. Any such abandonment will not be effective until it is evidenced by notice in writing, signed by the Grantee's official representative, and filed of record in the county where the Lands are located. 4. The Easement Term is hereby defined as the period of time beginning with the granting of the Easement and continuing until such time that the Easement is abandoned by Grantee. 5. Grantor and Grantee agree that during Permitted Uses related to the Pipeline System, any and all trees, dirt, raw materials, timber, spoil piles, excess dirt, wood, bushes, shrubs and brush, and other debris materials resulting from site preparation cleared from the Easement shall, be removed by Grantee from Lands and from Grantor9s property. 6. Grantee shall keep the Easement in good order, condition and repair following any work related to Permitted Uses on the Pipeline System. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, although the Grantee may reconstruct any roadway crossed by Grantee in exercising its rights hereunder, Grantee assumes no maintenance for any road reconstructed as a result of Grantee's use of the Easement and Grantee expressly waives same, which waiver is acknowledged by Grantor. 7. Grantee shall be responsible for obtaining all permits necessary to construct and operate the Pipeline System on the Easement. Without limiting the foregoing, and to the extent required, Grantee will secure and maintain any and all environmental permits required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality covering the Easement. 8. During construction of the Pipeline System, Grantee shall provide reasonable access to Grantor's property. Within the Easement, Grantee shall have the right to cut fences and install gates to enable Permitted Uses for the Pipeline System. Final Easement 2 9. This grant of Easement shall not preclude the right of Grantor to cultivate,, use, and enjoy the Lands for any purposes which will not constitute an interference with the Easement, rights and privileges herein granted to Grantee., or endanger any of Zp Grantee's property at the sole discretion of the Grantee. 10. Grantee shall exercise due care and diligence in the use of the rights and privileges herein granted to it. In case of abandonment of said Easement as provided in 3 above, the title and interest herein granted shall end, cease, and terminate, and title to the Easement, pipeline, equipment and facilities shall revert to the then owner of the Lands. If. Grantor warrants and represents that the title to the Lands described herein are vested in the Grantor, free and clear of any liens and/or encumbrances. Grantor shall provide to Grantee an executed release from any lien holder, tenant, lessee, or other party having an interest in the Lands. 12. Grantor shall procure and have recorded without cost to Grantee all assurances of title and affidavits which the Grantor may be advised by Grantee are necessary and proper to show in Grantor title sufficient to grant the above easement free and clear of encumbrances other than those encumbrances expressly defined herein. Abstracts or certificates of title or title insurance may be procured by the Grantee at its expense. The expense of recording this Easement shall be borne by Grantor. Grantee agrees to cooperate and aid Grantor, if necessary, to obtain any curative documents needed. 13. Grantee shall have the right to use Grantor's property located immediately adjacent to the Easement for the following: A. detouring around natural impediments within the Easement; or B. the construction, maintenance, repair and removal of the Pipeline System within the Easement. 14. "Grantee"' when used in this instrument, shall include The City of Lubbock's officers, agents, servants, employees, representatives, contractors, independent contractors, subcontractors, and/or their equipment or vehicles. 15. Words of any gender used in this agreement shall be held and construed to include any other gender, and words in the singular number shall be held to include the plural, and vice versa, unless the context requires otherwise. 16. It is understood and agreed that this Easement is not a conveyance of the fee estate for any of the Lands covered hereunder, but is only an easement through, over, under, upon, across and within the Lands. Final Easement 3 17. The provisions of this Easement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the respective parties hereto. 18. This Easement contains the final and complete expression of the parties with respect to any matter mentioned herein. No prior agreement or understanding pertaining to any such matter shall be effective. This Easement may be modified in writing only, signed by the parties in interest at the time of the modification. 19. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Easement shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision hereof, and this Easement shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions had never been contained herein. 20. Any notices or demands provided to be given herein by the parties shall be in writing and mailed by certified or registered mail to the other party at the address set forth above. Any notice or demand shall be deemed to have been received the earlier of five (5) days after the date of mailing or the date of actual delivery as shown by the addressee's certification or registry receipt. 21. Neither party shall be liable to the other party or any of such party's affiliates in any action or claim, including without any limitation, any action or claim for loss of profit, loss of product, loss of use, or for indirect, consequential, punitive, exemplary, special or other similar types of damages, regardless of how caused and regardless of the underlying theory of recovery, and even if caused by the sole or concurrent negligence of the responsible party. A. To the extent that Grantor owns any portion of any mineral estate, leasehold estate and/or royalty interest of any kind or character under the Lands defined herein, Grantor surrenders and releases its surface drilling rights and all other rights of surface use of the Easement and Lands incident to the production of oil, gas, hydrocarbons, minerals, wind energy, and water production subject to the following exception and limitation: i) Grantor reserves and excepts from this release and retains for itself, its successors and its successors- i n-i nterest, all rights to explore for, to drill and produce oil, gas and other hydrocarbons underlying or situated beneath the Easement and Lands by any means whatsoever, including wells directionally drilled from surface location on nearby lands so long as no surface operations are performed on the Easement and so long as such operations will not interfere with or endanger the operations or integrity of the Pipeline System and Permitted Uses. ii) Grantor shall include the surface use restrictions and covenants provided herein in any subsequent lease or conveyance of the oil, gas and/or mineral estate, wind rights or interests and water rights or interests. Final Easement 4 22. Grantee shall have the right to approve the location and means of future third -party pipelines which will cross Grantee's pipeline system and come within the Easement. Grantee will not withhold reasonable crossing requests, but will act in a manner to protect the Grantee's Pipeline System and Grantee's Easement. 23. Unless determined by an outside engineer to be impractical due to the existence of rock or material elevation change, all ditching shall be in accordance with the "double ditch" method whereby the top twelve inches (12") of soil (the "Top Soil") shall be removed from the Pipeline System trench (the "Trench"") and stored in a pile that is segregated from all other material and debris, and the remaining soil (the "Bottom Soil") shall be removed from the Trench and stored in a pile that is segregated from the Top Soil. When the Trench is refilled after the Pipeline System has been laid and the Pipeline Equipment installed, the Bottom Soil shall be placed in the trench first leaving room to fill the uppermost twelve inches (12") of the Trench to be filled with Top Soil. Top Soil shall be used to fill the remainder of the Trench. Any Bottom Soil remaining after filling the Trench shall be removed from the Easement and disposed of off of the property of Grantor. As stated above, single ditching shall be allowed in all areas where "double ditching" is impractical (as determined by an outside engineer) due to the existence of rock or material elevation change. 24. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as a waiver by the Grantee of immunity qf any kind or type, including without limitation, waiver of immunity ftom liability and immunityfrom suit, and the Grantee shall retain all such immunities, except as may be otherwise waivedpursuant to applicable laws qf the United States or State of Texas. 25. City Bank of Lubbock, Texas, holder of a lien of record against the above - described property, joins in this easement for the sole purpose of showing its assent thereto and that it has no objections to the granting of said Easement, and it hereby releases its liens upon those portions of the property which are embraced within the bounds of the Easement. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said Easement unto Grantee, its successors and assigns for so long as the same shall be used for the purposes aforesaid subject to the terms and conditions hereof. [ Signatures of the Parties on Next Page I Final Easement 5 Resolution No. 2016-RO375 EXECUTEDthis 11 dayof 4vlv�l —, 2016 ("Effective Date"). LIENHOLDER: -A-'krj4 ­­ A5�- effflffi .. 1. �, �; 4 e-Zly &I-tk By - Printed Name: -04a-j2�4 M. nv-ru� T i t I e: GRANTOR: HUB CITY INVESTMENTS 1, LTD., a Texas limited partnership By:_ -40 - 4 Printed""'A'A"e.: ' -64VIA 6. Title.- X" GRANTEE: The City of Lubbock By: Name: Daniel M. Pope Title:, MAYOR ATTEST: b a Gair-z"a,-City S&t&A�v y r I..'j-Acknowledgements ofthe Parties on Next Pagel AP ROVED �TO C d�­a ,�,�NTENT: , *0-" — Final Easement 6 APPROVED AS TO FORM: OA� V IF� I I-PrAl Ryan J. Bigbee, Attorney STATE OF TEXAS § COUNTY OF LUBBOCK § This �ns" Ment was acknowledged before me on 2016, by 0 ores,. 1, drol vz �fei title] of HUB CITY INVESTMENTS 1, LTD., a Texas limited �artnership, on behalf of said partnership. RENEU Skiff H MY COMMISSION EXPIRES ?4A MarCh 26, 2017 STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF LUBBOCK N?drk ,nlic, St t T Printe Nagne: My commission expires: This instrument was acknowledged before me on —W)ka�, , 2016, by DAN POPE on behalf of the City of Lubbock, a Texas Home Rule Corporation on behalf of said Texas Home Rule Corporation. yp P& / JENNIFER SOWDER CLEMENTS fa f m4nll N01alY P11W, SWO Of Tex ENT' Notary State exas as NOWY IN 12497068-3 ",] t My Commbsion EVm %28-2020 Printed Vme. tki U T, N,4,K- ONO My commission expires: Qo 1-7,1 7-a ZA Final Easement 7 LIENHOLDER ACKNOWLEDGMENT THE STATE OF § THE COUNTY OF L4( § That . ...... duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of X-A—S —, for and in consideration of the sum of TEN AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($10.00) paid in cash, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged and confessed, being a lien holder on the property described herein, does hereby consent and agree to the foregoing Dedication and does hereby subordinate its rights in the above described property to the above dedication, as shown on the attached plat. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said � 4� has caused these presents to be slgp�d by its duly a % th *Zkd , ffficer at r I County, I .' a 1 12 on -1w[k%'- 0 AP RENELL SMITH MY COMMISSION EXPIRES March 26,2017 Tit 5 -11tst luilluoill VVHS "CK11TUMM"M e d I�J�) M �� S a! A: h t. By: Printed Name: Title: bgore me o *11- 2011,ob y of q a" " L IL;; %,apa%., Ly L VilU 11 bLULCU. I—) 14101 Wk., If, k4d. RENELL SMITH N MY COMMISSION EXPIRES March 26,2017 000C 'Z -Ij 1�6-Tub ate of Texas Final Easement 8 Exhibit A Legal Description of the Perpetual Exclusive Easement METES AND BOUNDS DESCRIPTION of a 0.609 acre parcel, more or less, being a portion of the South 30.00 feet of Tract "C", Crest Hill, an addition to the City of Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, according to the map, plat, and/or dedication deed thereof recorded in Volume 1214, Page 378, Deed Records, Lubbock County, Texas (DR.LCT), being further described as follows: BEGINNING at the 1/2" iron rod with cap set at the Southwest corner of said Tract "C", Crest Hill, and at the Southeast comer of a 622.59 acre tract described in County Clerk File Number 2010003402, Official Public Records, Lubbock County, Texas, and in the North line of a 307.315 acre tract described in Volume 4116, Page 119, Real Property Records, Lubbock County, Texas (RPRLCT), and in the common line 'of Section 14, Block JS, Lubbock County, Texas, and Section 13, Block A, Lubbock County, Texas, for the Southwest comer of this parcel; THENCE N. 02000'12" E. along the common line of said Tract "C", Crest Hill and said 622.59 acre tract a distance of 30.00 feet to a Y2"' iron rod with cap set for the Northwest comer of this parcel; THENCE S. 88012'23" E. a distance of 859.74 feet to a Y2" iron rod with cap set for the Northeast corner of this parcel; THENCE S. 29045'40" E. a distance of 35.45 feet to a Y2" iron rod with cap set in the South line of said Tract "C", Crest Hill, and in the North line of a 286.15 acre tract described in Volume 370, Page 55, DRLCT, and in the common line of said Section 2, Block D-4, Lubbock County, Texas, and Section 12, Block A, Lubbock County, Texas, for the Southeast corner of this parcel; THENCE N. 88015'13" W. along the common line of said Tract "C", Crest Hill, and said 286.15 acre tract and said Section 2, Block D-4, and said Section 12, Block A, at 71.09 feet pass the Northwest comer of said 286.15 acre tract and the Northeast comer of a 307.315 acre tract described in Volume 4116, Page 119, RPRLCT, continuing along the common line of said Tract "C", Crest Hill, and said 307.315 acre tract and said Section 2, Block D-4, and Section 12, Block A, for a total distance of 747.85 feet to a Y2" iron rod with cap found at the common comer of said Sections 12 and 13, Block A, and said Section 14, Block JS, and said Section 2, Block D-4. for a corner of this parcel; THENCE N. 87050'40" W. along the common line of said Tract "C", Crest Hill and said 307.315 acre tract and said Section 13, Block A, and said Section 14, Block JS, a distance of 130.55 feet to the Point of Beginning. FILED AND RECORDED OFF-ICIAL PUBLIC RECORDS Final Easement 9 Kelly Pinion Count Clerk Lubbock County, TEX4S 12/08/2016 02:48 PM FEE: $58.00 2016044773