Ord 2935 1/21/1975 f
ORDINANCE NO. 1915'
AN ORDINANCE RELEASING AND ABANDONING
CERTAIN EASEMENTS IN PORTIONS OF FOUNTAIN
STREET, WALKER AVENUE AND VIRGINIA STREET
AND IN THE ALLEY IN BLOCK 8 OF THE SOUTH
PARK ADDITION TO THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS.
WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 1451 dated December 8th, 1947,
the Board of Aldermen closed and abandoned certain portions of
streets and alleys in the South Park Addition to the City of
Wichita Falls, reserving an easement for a drainage ditch and
an easement for all utilities located in said streets and alleys
at that time; and,
WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 1457 dated March 8th, 1948, the
Board of Aldermen amended Ordinance No. 1451, thereby reserving
an easement for a drainage ditch and an easement for all util-
ities located in such abandoned streets and alleys at that time
and for all public utilities that may thereafter be placed in
said streets and alleys; and,
WHEREAS, the Board of Aldermen deems it desirable to
release certain of the easements which were reserved in the
two ordinances described above.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, THAT:
All of the easements which were reserved in Ordinances
Number 1451 and Number 1457 , which lie within the boundaries
of that certain tract of land containing 3. 244 acres, more or
less, described in Exhibit A, attached hereto, are hereby re-
leased and abandoned, save and except the three following ease-
ments, which shall remain in full force and effect, to-wit:
a. A ten foot wide utility easement located within
the closed portion of Fountain Street, the center line of such
easement being parallel to and forty three feet south of the
South property line of Block 5 of the South Park Addition.
b. An easement within the closed portion of Virginia
Street, for the operation and maintenance of two 30" storm sewer
or drainage pipes in the location where they now exist, together
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with the right in the future to replace such pipes.
c. A utility easement twenty feet wide, lying
parallel and contiguous to the east right-of-way line of Old
Jacksboro Highway and the West line of the tract of land des-
cribed in Exhibit A.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 21st day of January, 1975.
M A Y O
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
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Field Notes describing a tract of land out of Blocks 8, 10, and 11, South Park Addition
to the City of Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas and parts of the streets and alleys
in said subdivision abandoned by City Ord. No. 1451, being all the residue of that
certain tract conveyed by Safeway Stores, Inc. to Bruce M. Steed and Thad U. Steed in
the deed recorded in Vol. 837, Pg. 233, Deed Records of Wichita County, Texas, and
being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the West right-of-way line of Kentucky Avenue for the Northeast
corner of that certain tract conveyed to Texas Electric Service Company in the deed
recorded in Vol. 586, Pg. 238, Deed Records of Wichita County, Texas, and the Southeast
corner of the tract herein described, a brass and concrete monument marked "TESCO FORT
WORTH" found in place for the Southeast corner of Lot 1, Block 11, South Park Addition
bears SOUTH 50-0/10 feet, and another TESCO monument bears S 59 Deg. 45' E 0-42/100 feet;
THENCE departing the WEST line of Kentucky Ave. with the North line of said TESCO tract,
WEST, crossing Lots 1 through 6, Block 11, crossing Virginia Avenue (closed by City
Ord. No. 1451), and crossing a part of Lot 1, Block 10, all in South Park Add'n. , a
total distance of 372-55/100 feet to a point in the curved East right-of-way line of
Virginia Street (Old Jacksboro Highway) , a 90 foot wide street, a galvanized Boat Spike
bears East 1-25/100 feet;
THENCE Northeasterly with the East right-of-way line of Virginia Street and with the
arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 2825-0/10 feet a distance of 147-25/100
feet to its point of tangency;
THENCE continuing with said East right-of-way line N 7 Deg. 44' E, at 60-25/100 feet
passing an X cut in a concrete driveway, and continuing in all 185-25/100 feet to a
galvanized Boat Spike set for the Westerly Northwest corner of the tract herein described;
THENCE departing the East right-of-way line of Virginia Street EAST 182-15/100 feet
to a point for an ell corner in the North line of the tract herein described, a set
galvanizdd=Bbdt=Bp -e'bears-WEHT" 4)/1G'=foot: nd-4 bett_-3/8-'-:,-`2-tte l-=tod°-found_; ii 4alac =
bears NORTH-0-3/10 foot;--.
THENCE NORTH 165-0/10 feet to a point in the North line of Fountain Street (closed by
City Ord. No. 1451) for the Easterly Northwest corner of the tract herein described, a
set 5/8" steel rod bears WEST 0-4/10 foot;
THENCE with the North line of abandoned Fountain Street EAST 149-6/10 feet to a 3/8"
steel rod set in the West right-of-way line of Kentucky Avenue for the Northeast
corner of this tract;
THENCE with the West line of Kentucky Avenue SOUTH 495-0/10 feet to the place of
beginning, containing in all 3-244/1000 acres of land, more or less.
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