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RE.SOLUTION NO. 1397
<br />WHERFAS, it has been called to the attention of the City
<br />Council of the City of Paris, that in the plat of Johnson's
<br />Woods Subdivision Plat 3, as shown by said Plat, recorded in
<br />Book 5, Page 43, Plat Records, Lamar County, Texas, that a
<br />street designated Allen Street, which begins in the West
<br />Boundary Line of 31st Street, S. E. and runs West to the West
<br />Boundary Line of the Johnson's Woods Subdivision, a distance
<br />of approximately 120.45 feet, being adjacent to the South
<br />Boundary Line of Lot 11, Block A, and adjacent to the North
<br />Boundary Line of Lot l, Block H, each of which are in said
<br />Subdivision, was dedicated as shown in the Plat so filed; and,
<br />WHFREAS, it has been called to the attention of the City
<br />Council of the City of Paris that Allen Street, as shown on
<br />said Plat, has never been used as a street and that provisions
<br />were not made for a connection to said street at the West
<br />Boundary Line of Johnson's Woods Subdivision, when the
<br />Preliminary Plat of the 2nd Installment of Merry-Glen Addition
<br />was approved by the City Council on January 8, 1968, without
<br />requiring a continuation of Allen Street; and,
<br />WHER EAS, the City of Paris, nor the citizens thereof, have
<br />no need for said portion of Al1en Street as a public way and,
<br />therefore, should not be burdened with the maintenance of the
<br />same, but that an easement for drainage and utilities should be
<br />retained by the City of Paris; NOW, THEREFORE,
<br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS,
<br />PARIS, TEXAS, That the Mayor of the City of Paris, B. M. Felty,
<br />be, and he is hereby authorized to execute a quit claim deed
<br />to the North 1/2 of Allen Street, from the West Boundary Line
<br />of 31st Street, S. E. to the West Boundaxy Line of Johnson's
<br />Woods Subdivision, to J. W. Harrison, the present owner of
<br />Lot 11, Block A, Johnson's Woods Subdivision, and the South 1/2
<br />of Al1en Street, from the West Boundary Line of 31st Street,
<br />S. E. to the West Boundary Line of Johnson's Woods Subdivision,
<br />to J. W. Harrison, C. L. Walker, Mary Helen Harrison, Patricia
<br />Slayton and Laura Ann Stokes, the present owners of Lot 1,
<br />Block H, Johnson's Woocls Subdivision, and that an easement for
<br />dxainage and utilities should be retained by the City of Paris
<br />by having the Grantees of the quit claim deeds herein described
<br />execute drainage and utility easements describing that portion
<br />of Allen Street being closed which is needed for utilities and
<br />drainage.
<br />Passed and adopted this llth day of January, 1971.
<br />~B. &_Felty, Mayor
<br />ATTFST :
<br />H. C. Gre`ene, City Clerk
<br />APP O VED,~~ ~ FORM :
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<br />T. . Haynes ity Attorney
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