1984-06-13 Workshop Meeting followed by Special Called City Council Meeting

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• ~C • l ~` f MEMORANDUM December 14, 1982 TO: John~Joerns, Jerry Hodge, Knox Askins FROM: Betty T. Waters SUBJECT: Old La Porte Road In recent weeks I have had several conferences with Mr. J. H. Badders, Principal Right-of-way agent for Gullett and Associates, Inc. His reason for calling on me in the be- ginning was a search to establish abandonment of Old La Porte Road. He had searched Harris County Records and found no record of the road ever having been abandoned. This is the series of events I conveyed to him: In 1976, the City of Lomax was preparing to install a sewer line and went to the County to get proper permits to place the line along Old La Porte Road. The County informed us the road had never been carried on their road log since it was a state highway. City Attorney Walter Queen and T spent several days reading minutes of the Commissioners Court to be sure the road had never been officially abandoned. There was nothing. We then went to the State Highway Department; they traced the road and its repairs for several years but found no official dedication and no abandonment. We found Old La Porte Road on maps back as far as 1918, and found that in 1931 the new State Highway 225 was built and opened to traffic. The County began to maintain the right-of- way until 225 was officially completed and then they only~main- tained the section from 26th Street west approximately 900 feet for those citizens who lived along that area:. Harris County stopped maintaining that section of Old La Porte Road in 1968 and the street was maintained by the City of Lomax from 26th Street was approximately 1000 feet and from Houston Avenue east a distance of 500 feet. Enterprise Products Company is proposing to lay two sixes inch pipelines 20 feet inside the Old La Porte,. Road right-of-way, from the Wanda Petroleum meter site to Houston Avenue where the line will turn north across the S.P. tracks, SH225, and out of our City limits line will travel east. I am attaching the letter requesting a permit from Gullett and Associates and a map. Gt/~ta~ Betty [caters l.6 BTW/cb ~ ~, Fnc~. .... ~ ..