11&12 Alley Closing PH & Ordā
March 27, 2002
TO HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL: ~"jt~Y 08 2002
WE, the undersigned owners of property adjacent to the fifteen (15) fodC~~~c~~of
the S. J. Wright Addition to the City of Paris, running east and west beginning at the west oundary
line of 18th Street SW west to the east boundary line of 19th Street SW located between Bonham
Street (US Hwy 82) and West Kaufman Street, do hereby petirion the City of Paris to close the same.
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ADDRESS
P. O. Box 844
Paris, TX 75461-844
P. O. Box 11
Paris, TX 75461-011
PROPERTY
Lots 1-2
1805 Bonham
Lots 3-4
1825 Bonham
Management "A" Trust
& Betty Smith
B. & Rebecca Flowers
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P. O. Box 844
Paris, TX 75461-544
1840 E. Washington
Paris, TX 75460
715 34th NE
Paris, TX 75460
3760 Dawn Dr.
Paris, TX 75460
P. O. Box 604
iFaris, T3: 75461-664
3760 Dawn Dr.
Paris, TX 75460
1771 Bonham St.
Paris, TX 75460
Lots 5-8
1843, 1875 Bonham
Pt. of Lots 9& 10
115 19th St. SW
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1842 W. Kaufman
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J:\Attorney\ALICE\ORDWORK\CiJRRENT\AIIey Closing 18th SW to 19th SW Ord.wpd
June 3, 2002
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS,
PARIS, TEXAS, ABANDONING AN UNNAMED FIFTEEN (15) FOOT
ALLEY BEGINNING AT THE WEST BOUNDARY LINE OF 18TH STREET
S.W. GOING WEST TO THE EAST BOUNDARY LINE OF 19TH STREET
S.W., LOCATED BETWEEN BONHAM STREET (U.S. HWY 82) AND W.
KAUFMAN STREET; DECLARING NO NECESSITY OR NEED OF SAID
ALLEY FOR CITY USE OTHER THAN FOR DRAINAGE AND UTILITY
EASEMENTS, WHICH ARE EXPRESSLY RETAINED BY THE CITY OF
PARIS; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO
THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF JULY
1, 2002.
WHEREAS, it has been brought to the attention of the City Council of the City of Paris
that a fifteen (15) foot alley beginning at the west boundary line of 18th Street S.W., west to the
east boundary line of 19th Street S.W., located between Bonham Street (U.S. Hwy 82) and W.
Kaufman Street, is of no use as an alley to the City of Paris or to its citizens, but is of use and
necessary to the City of Paris and its citizens for drainage and utility easement purposes, and the
City Council so finds; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Paris has received a petition from adj acent
property owners requesting that the fifteen (15) foot alley be abandoned from 18th Street S.W.
to 19th Street S.W., located between Bonham Street (U.S. Hwy 82) and Maple Avenue; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council, following receipt of said petition, adopted Resolution No.
2002-090 on May 13, 2002, referring the matter of said proposed alley abandonment to the
Planning & Zoning Commission of the City of Paris for the Commission's review and
recommendation to the City Council for final action; and,
WHEREAS, the Planning & Zoning Commission did, at 5:30 p.m. on the 3rd day of
June, 2002, conduct a public hearing to allow interested citizens and members of the public to
comment for and against the proposal to abandon the aforesaid alley; and,
WHEREAS, following the public hearing conducted by the Planning & Zoning
Commission, the Commission, having reviewed the proposed abandonment, recommended to
the City Council of the City of Paris that the City abandon the aforesaid alleyway, preserving
and reserving thereto drainage and utility easements coterminous with and extending under the
surface of the alleyway proposed for abandonment; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Paris likewise conducted a public hearing
on the 6th day of June, 2002, to receive comments from citizens and members of the general
public for and against the proposal to abandon the aforesaid alleyway; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council, having received the recommendation of the Planning and
Zoning Commission, hereby determines that it is in the best interests 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 the unnamed fifteen (15) foot alley beginning at the west boundary line
of 18th Street S.W., westto the east boundary line of 19th Street S.W., located between Bonham
Street (U. S. Hwy 82) and W. Kaufman Street, 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 fifteen (15) feet
wide and beginning at the west boundary line of 18th Street S.W., going west to the east
boundary line of 19th Street S.W. between Bonham Street (U.S. Hwy 82) and W. Kaufman
Street in Block 4 of the S. J. Wright Addition.
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 of the 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 July 1, 2002.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 6th day of June, 2002.
Michael J. Pfiester, Mayor
ATTEST:
Mattie Cunningham, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Stephanie H. Harris, Asst. City Attorney
F,xuTUTT a
DESCRIPTION OF ALLEY TO BE CLOSED
SITUATED within the corporate limits of the City of Paris, County of
Lamar, and State of Texas, being a part of the Asa Jarman Survey, being a fifteen
(15) foot alley located in Block 4 of the S. J. Wright Addition to the City of Paris
from the west boundary line of 18th Street S.W. and the east boundary line of
19th Street S.W. between Bonham Street (U.S. Hwy 82) and W. Kaufman Street,
and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at the southeast corner of Lot 1, Block 4, S. J. Wright
Addition, being in the west boundary line of 18th Street S.W.;
THENCE West along the south boundary lines of Lots 1 through 8 a
distance of approximately 400 feet to a point being the southwest corner of said
Lot 8, in the east boundary line of 19th Street S.W.;
THENCE South along the east boundary line of 19th Street S.W. a
distance of 15 feet to the northwest corner of Lot 9-B in said Block 4;
THENCE East along the north boundary lines of Lots 9-B through 16 a
distance of approximately 400 feet to a point being the northeast corner of said
Lot 16;
THENCE North along the west boundary line of 18th Street S.W. a
distance of 15 feet to the place of beginning and containing 6,000 square feet,
more or less.