RE 04-15-86 RESOLUTION NO. 041586
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, PROVIDING THAT
THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS ENDORSES THE
DESIGN CONFIGURATIN OF STATE HIGHWAY 121
PLANNING COMMITTEE; AND PROVIDING COMMEN-
DATION TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN
THE PREPARATION OF THE DESIGN CONFIGURATION
WHEREAS, State Highway 221 traverses or is adjacent to the
cities of Coppell, Texas, Flower Mound, Texas and Grapevine,
Texas; and
WHEREAS, the State Department of Highways and Public
Transportation has indicated that it plans to upgrade current
State Highway 121 to freeway status; and
WHEREAS, the cities of Coppell, Flower Mound, and Grapevine,
as sister cities, recognize the need to provide equal and adequate
access to each respective city; and
WHEREAS, in an attempt to analyze each city's needs, and to
develop a plan that would provide access agreeable to each city,
Coppell, Flower Mound and Grapevine created the State Highway
121 Planning Committee consisting of the City Manager of each city,
the City Engineer of each city, a representative of each City
Council, and the Chairman of each city's Planning and Zoning
Commission to analyze and develop a design configuration that
would accommodate each city and a design configuration upon which
each city would agree; and
WHEREAS, in a cooperative effort the State Highway 121
Planning Committee developed the design configuration more par-
ticularly described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto and made a
part hereof and which design configuration was uninamously
accepted by all members of such committee; and
WHEREAS, the cities of Coppell, Flower Mound, and Grapevine
now desire to revise their respective master thoroughfare plans
to accommodate a common intersection and access points along the
proposed freeway; and
WHEREAS, the cities of Coppell, Flower Mound, and Grapevine
have agreed to and support the design configuration more
particularly described on Exhibit "A";
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF COPPELL,
TEXAS:
Section 1o That the City of Coppell, Texas hereby endorses
and supports the design configuration described on Exhibit "A"
and hereby respectfully requests that the State Department of
Highways and Public Transportation adopt the design configuration
described on Exhibit "A" as the official plan of the State of
Texas for that portion of State Highway 121 described on Exhibit
Section 2. That the City Of Coppell, Texas commends the
State Highway 121 Planning Committee, the work of Mr. Bob
Yielding, and the work of its sister cities for the cooperation,
conception and preparation of the design configuration presented
on Exhibit "A".
Section 3. That this resolution shall take effect from and
after its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED B~Y~THE CITY C~N~F THE CITY OF
COPPELL, TEXAS on this /~- day of · , 1986.
APPROVED:
Mayor ~/
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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