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OR 27 Authorizes disannexation of land from City limitsAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS ORDINANCE NO. 27 WHEREAS, there now exists within the corporate limits of the City of Coppell, Dallas County, Texas, a city organized and operating under the General Laws of the State of Texas, certain territory to the extent of ten (10) acres or more, which territory is contiguous to and adjoins the lines of said City of Coppell; and WHEREAS, such territory has fewer than one occupied r~sidence or business structure for every two acres of such t~rritory and fewer than three occupied residences or business ssructures on any one acre of such territory, and the said City of Coppell desires to discontinue said territory as a part of the City of Coppell; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS: Section 1. That the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, hereby finds that the following described uninhabitated territory contains ten (10) acres or more which is contiguous to and adjoining the lines of the City of Coppell, Texas, and has fewer than one occupied residence or business structure for every two acres of such territory and fewer than three occupied residences or business structures on any one acres of such territory, to-wit: Tract 1 All that certain territory lying in the City of Coppell, Dallas County, Texas lying west of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River and north of Sandy Lake Road more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the east line of the D. Myers Survey Abstract No. 886 and the northeast bank of Denton Creek; said point also being in the present City Limits of the City of Coppell, Texas. Thence easterly with the meanderings of the northeast bank of Denton Creek and the present City Limits of Cx)ppell, Texas to a point in the north right of way line of Sandy Lake Road the same being the north right of way line of old U. S. Highway 77; Thence west with the north fight of way line of old U. S. Highway 77 to a point in the southeast line of a 130 feet width right of way line, conveyed deed dated October 17, 1956. Thence northeast along the southeast line of a 130 feet width right of way line to the point of beginning. Section 2. That the tract of land hereinabove des- cribed in Section No. i of this Ordinance be, and the same is h~reby discontinued as a part of the City of Coppell, Texas, a:~d said territory is hereby disannexed from said City, so that the same shall no longer be a part thereof. Section 3. That upon passage of this ordinance the C.ty of Coppell shall no longer exercise jurisdiction or con- t:'ol over the above described territory. Section 4. The fact that said territory is no longer n.~cessary or proper as a part of the territory of the City of C,~ppell, Texas, and should be, therefore, disannexed, creates an urgency and an emergency which in the interest of the public w~lfare, requires that this ordinance shall take effect im- m~diately from and after its passage, and it is accordingly so ordained. DULY PASSED by the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, on this theist. day of Feb. , 1966. ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: 'Cit~ Secreta~ Attorney