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<br />• <br /> <br />December 14, 1982 <br />• <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: John Joerns, Jerry Hodge, Knox Askins <br />FROM: Betty T. tAaters <br />SUBJECT: Old La Porte Road <br />In recent weeks I have had several conferences with <br />Mr. J. H. Badders, Principal Right-of-way agent for Gullett <br />and Associates, Inc. His reason for calling on me in the be- <br />ginning was a search to establish abandonment of Old La Porte <br />Road. He had searched Harris County Records and found no <br />record of the road ever having been abandoned. <br />This is the series of events I conveyed to him: <br />• <br />In 1976, the City of Lomax was preparing to install a <br />sewer line and went to the County to get proper permits to <br />place the line along Old La Porte Road. The County informed <br />us the road had never been carried on their road log since it <br />was a state highway. City Attorney Walter Queen and I spent <br />several days reading minute's of the Commissioners Court to be <br />sure the road had never been officially abandoned. There was <br />nothing. We then went to the State Highway Department; they <br />traced the road and its repairs for several years but found <br />no official dedication and no abandonment. <br />We found Old La Porte Road on maps back as far as 1918, <br />and found that in 1931 the new State Highway 225 was built and <br />opened to traffic. The County began to maintain the right-of- <br />way until 225 was officially completed and then they only main- <br />tained the section from 26th Street west approximately 900 feet <br />for those citizens who lived along that area. Harris County <br />stopped maintaining that section of Old La Porte Road in 1968 <br />and the street was maintained by the City of Lomax from 26th <br />Street was approximately 1000 feet and from Houston Avenue <br />east a distance of 500 feet. <br />Enterprise Products Company is proposing to lay two six-. <br />inch pipelines 20 feet inside the Old La Porte Road right-of-way, <br />from the Wanda Petroleum meter site to Houston Avenue where the <br />line will turn north across the S.P. tracks, SH225, and out of <br />our City limits line will travel east. <br />• <br />I am attaching the letter requesting a permit from Gullett <br />and Associates and a map. <br />~~:~~ <br />Betty ~ taaters Lr <br />BT*.~/cb <br />r. ,., ,., <br /> <br />,~~ <br />