OR 330 Abandons easement AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 330
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, ABANDONING A 20 FOOT
EASEMENT IN FAVOR OF THE ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNER; PROVIDING THAT SUCH
ABANDONMENT SHALL BE ALL THE INTEREST THE CITY MAY LEGALLY AND
LAWFULLY ABANDON; PROVIDING THAT SUCH ORDINANCE SHALL CONSTITUTE A
QUITCLAIM DEED THAT MAY BE RECORDED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF DALLAS
COUNTY, TEXAS; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, has determined that
the City has no further need for the certain easement hereinafter described and that
the City's interest therein should be abandoned; and
WHEREAS, Wiseco Land Development, Corp., the owner of the property on which
said easement exists, desires that such easement be abandoned; and
WHEREAS, the City has determined that the City has no need for such portion
of said easement and that the cost of keeping such easement is in excess of the fair
market value of the City's interest in the portion of easement being abandoned; NOW,
THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That the hereinafter described portion of easement within the limits of the City
of Coppell, Texas, is no longer needed or necessary for City public purposes as an
easement and should be abandoned in favor of the owner of the property burdened with
said easement, to wit: Wiseco Land Development, Corp. The easement being abandoned
is described as follows:
BEING a 20 foot wide strip of land situated in the Alfred Logsdon Survey,
Abstract No. 783 in Dallas County, Texas, said strip of land also being
part of a 20 foot wide utility easement to the City of Coppell as recorded
in Volume 79074, Page 0081 of the Deed Records of Dallas County, Texas,
said easement crossing a 283.667 acre tract and a 20 acre tract of land
described as Tract A-2 and Tract C as conveyed to M. Douglas Adkins,
Trustee, by deed from Good Financial Corp., dated September 27, 1976
and recorded in Volume 76188, Page 2355 of the Deed Records of Dallas
County, Texas, said strip of land being 10.00 feet either side of the
following described centerline;
COMMENCING at a point in the south line of the said Adkins Tract C,
said point being N. 88° 55' 00" W., 10.00 feet from the southeast corner
of the said Adkins Tract C; Thence N. 1° 05' 00" E., 390.00 feet to the
POINT OF BEGINNING of section of easement to be abandoned;
THENCE N. 1° 05' 00" E., 1150.00 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE N. 86~ 35' 00" E., 450.00 feet to the end of said centerline and
containing 0.73 acres (32,000 square feet) of land.
SECTION 2.
The City of Coppell, Texas, hereby abandons all its right, title, and interest in
and to said portion of easement as above described and abandons all such interest the
City may have in said portion of easement in favor of Wiseco Land Development, Corp.,
the owner of the property burdened by said easement.
SECTION 3.
That the abandonment of the City's interest in said easement shall constitute a
quitclaim deed in favor of Wiseco Land Development, Corp., the owner of the property
burdened by said easement, and a certified copy of this ordinance may be filed in the
Deed Records of Dallas County, Texas, to indicate such abandonment.
SECTION 4.
The abandonment provided for herein shall extend only to the public right, title,
and interest of the City of Coppell, Texas, in and to said portion easement, and shah
be construed to extend only to the interest that the governing body of the City of
Coppell, Texas, may legally and lawfully abandon.
SECTION 5.
The provisions of this ordinance are severable, and should any section, paragraph,
sentence, clause or purchase thereof be declared unconstitutional or void, such
declaration shall not effect any of the remaining portions hereof.
SECTION 6.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage as the
law in such cases provides.
DULY PASSED by the City Council of the City of Coppel], Texas, this the
~ day of I'l~/~__~-,'~.~ ~ 1985.
APPROVED:
ATTEST:
CITY SECRE~RY
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CO85-0618
CERTIFICATE OF CITY SECRETARY
THE STATE OF TEXAS
CITY OF COPPELL
I, the undersigned, City Secretary of the City of Coppell, Texas, a municipal
corporation, in performance of the functions of my office, hereby certify that the
attached ordinance is a full, true and correct copoy of Ordinance No. ~_~g,~c?- as
the same appears of record in the Official Ordinance Book of the City, having been
adopted by the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas on the t~7_~'~-~'day of
~.~//L~LC~ 19 J~ , and that I am the lawful possessor and have legal custody
of s~ch record.
WITN~ MY fl~D AND SEAL OF OFFICE at my office in Coppell, Texas this
the
-day of
Dorothy Tim ons
City Secretly, Coppell, Texas
(seal)