1989-05-01 Special Called Meeting

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ORDINANCE N0. 1642 AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE TO INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS TO ANNEX CERTAIN TERRITORY; CALLING TWO (2) PUBLIC HEARINGS AT WHICH ALL INTERESTED PARTIES SHALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD; PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF SUCH HEARINGS BY THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section 1. The City Council of the City of La Porte hereby declares its intention to institute annexation proceedings, to annex the following described territory to the City of La Porte by the passage of an ordinance of annexation extending the general corporate limits of the City of La Porte for all purposes to include within such territory all of the following described territory now situated within the exclusive extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of La Porte. As used herein, the term extraterritorial jurisdiction shall have the same meaning ascribed to it as is ascribed to it in the Municipal Annexation Act of 1963, compiled as Chapter 43, Texas Local Government Code: The boundaries of the tract of land comprising the area proposed to be annexed (hereinafter Annexation Area), are as follows, to-wit: BEGINNING at a point in the William M. Jones Survey, Abstract No. 482, Harris County, Texas, within the city limits of La Porte, Texas, said point being Copperweld (C.W.) rod stamped 2682, at the intersection of the South right-of-way line of Fairmont Parkway, and the West right-of-way line of Baypark Road (100.00 feet wide) as recorded under File Number E717339, Film Code 138-02-1094 of the Harris County Official Public Records of Real Property (H.C.O.P.R.R.P.); THENCE southerly along the said West right-of-way line of Baypark Road to a point for the Northeast corner of a 60.792 acre tract of land conveyed to Quaker Oats Chemicals, Inc. per the deed recorded under File Number H406373, Film Code 011-97- 2240 of the H.C.O.P.R.R.P.; THENCE, South 02°27'59" East, 1476.25 feet along a line common to said 60.792 acre tract and said West right-of-way line of Baypark Road, to a C.W. rod stamped 2826 found for the Southeast corner of said 60.792 acre tract and being in the North right-of-way line of a railroad easement (50.00 feet wide), also being in the South line of a drainage easement (40.00 feet wide) as recorded under File Number E233742, Film Code 108-12-1079, of the H.C.O.P.R.R.P.; THENCE, South 87°31'40" West, along a line common to said , 60.792 acre tract, the North right-of-way line of said railroad easement, and the South line of said drainage easement, at 1593.89 feet passing a point for the Southeast corner of Friendswood Development Company Water Well Site Site Number 11 as recorded under File Number E233742, Film Code 108-12-1079 of the H.C.O.P.R.R.P., at 1694.38 feet passing a point for the Southwest corner of said Water Well Site Number 11, in all a total distance of 1794.38 feet, to a point for corner, said point being a 5/8" iron rod in the East right-of-way line of Big Island Slough, as recorded in Volume 4860, Page 268, of the Harris County Deed Records (H.C.D.R.);