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RESOLUTION
Resolution #2532
March 12, 1987
Agenda Item #16
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Lubbock, Texas, a Home Rule
Municipality located in Lubbock County, Texas, passed Resolution #2510 on
January 22, 1987; and
WHEREAS, said Resolution #2510 authorized the Right -of -Way Department
of the City of Lubbock to purchase a tract of land for public park purposes
for the sum of $31,700, and instructed the City Attorney of said City of
Lubbock to institute condemnation (eminent domain) proceedings to acquire
the fee simple title to said land if it could not be acquired by purchase;
and
WHEREAS, the property whose acquisition was authorized in Resolution
#2510 was incorrectly described in Resolution #2510; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Lubbock, Texas, has
determined and does hereby determine that the public needs, safety and
welfare still demand and create a public necessity for the acquisition of
additional land for public park purposes as when Resolution #2510 was
passed, and this City Council still finds it in the public interest to
proceed with the acquisition of lands as needed for such public purposes as
aforesaid; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Lubbock desires to amend or
modify the legal description of the property described in Resolution #2510
to more accurately reflect the Council's true intentions; NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1. THAT the fee simple title to the following described
tract of land located in Lubbock County, Texas, be acquired in lieu of the
property described in Resolution #2510 for the public purposes and
municipal purposes set forth in the preamble hereof, to -wit:
BEGINNING at a point which is 1295.56 feet West and 2020.83
feet North of the Southeast corner of Section 79, Block A,
Lubbock County, Texas;
THENCE South 89°57'46" West a distance of 351.67 feet to a
point;
THENCE South 012'14" East a distance of 32.8 feet to a point,
said point being in the Northeast right-of-way line of U.S.
Highway 87 (Amarillo Highway);
THENCE South 27005'14" East along the right-of-way line of
said Highway 87 a distance of 234.75 feet to a point;
THENCE South 23003'44" East continuing along the right-of-way
line of said Highway 87 a distance of 624.79 feet to a point,
said point being in the west line of MacKenzie State Park;
THENCE North along the West line of said MacKenzie Park a
distance of 816.94 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING.
SECTION 2. THAT the owners of said tract, being T. C. McLain and T.
0. Wilkins, again BE offered through the Right -Of -Way Department of the
City of Lubbock the amount of $31,700, which is the amount appraised as the
value and total damages for the fee simple title and acquisition of said
real estate hereinabove described, for the use and benefit of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, for the purposes herein stated, an unless accepted
forthwith, the City Attorney of said City of Lubbock is hereby authorized
and instructed to institute condemnation (eminent domain) proceedings to
acquire the fee simple title to said land as hereinabove described for
public purposes and municipal purposes.
Passed by the City Council this 12th day of March , 1987.
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. C. McM NN, MAYOR
ATTEST:
Ranett`a.._Boyd, City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
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Ed Bucy, Right- -Way Agent
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
arold Willard, Assistant City Attorney
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