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WHEREAS, the City Council, having received the recommendation of the Planning & Zoning Commission, hereby determines that it is in the best interest of the citizens and the City of Paris to abandon the aforesaid alleyway, reserving thereto drainage and utility easements coterminous with the original boundaries of the aforesaid alley and subj ect to the rights and the interests of the City of Paris in preserving and utilizing the aforesaid easements; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all things approved. Section 2. That an unnamed twenty (20) foot alley, beginning at the west boundary line of 13th Street N.W. going west to the east boundary line of 14th Street N.W. located between Bonham Street (U.S. Hwy 82) and Maple Avenue in City Block 189, described in Exhibit A, attached hereto, is found to be of no use as an alley to the City of Paris or its citizens, but is of use and necessary to the City of Paris and its citizens for drainage and utility easement purposes; therefore, such alley is hereby abandoned, with the City of Paris retaining drainage and utility easements thereon. Section 3. That the drainage and utility easements hereby reserved and preserved from abandonment shall extend the length and breadth of the current alleyway so abandoned and shall be coterminous with the original boundaries of said alleyway, the same being twenty (20) feet wide and beginning at the west boundary line of 13th Street N.W. going west to the east boundary of 14th Street N. W. between Bonham Street (U. S. Hwy 82) and Maple Avenue in City Block 189. Section 4. That the drainage and utility easements so reserved by the City of Paris shall be held unto the City of Paris in full and fee ownership, with the right and privilege at any and all times to enter said premises, or any part thereof, for the purposes of maintaining, constructing, reconstructing, relocating, or otherwise performing work or service upon or in the utility facilities placed and located therein, and provided further, that no beneficiary or subsequent owner ofthe alleyway abandoned herein shall erect or place any building, driveway, or other permanent structure on the perpetual easements reserved herein, and such person or persons shall not otherwise use the aforesaid easement premises in a way that would interfere with the construction, maintenance, repair, inspection, or operation of the utilities or other facilities placed in the aforesaid easements. Section 5. That any document reflecting the City's relinquishment of use of the alley abandoned herein shall include, or shall be interpreted to include, the easements and the appurtenances thereto preserved by the City of Paris as reflected in this ordinance, and the abandonment of said alleyway is hereby conditioned upon the preservation of said easements and the rights and interests reserved unto the City of Paris hereto. Section 6. That this ordinance shall become effective on March 1, 2002.