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ORDINANCE NO. 7 lJ
AN ORDINANCE VACATING~ ABANDONING AND CLOSING THAT PORTION OF
SAN JACINTO AVENUE AND PARK AVENUE ~YING CONTIGUOUS TO LOT
SIXTEEN (16) ~ BLOCK FIFTY (50) ~ SYLVAN BEACH FIRST SUBDIVISION ~
HARRIS COUNTY~ TEXAS~ SAID PORTION TO BE ABANDONED BEING
PARTICULARLY DESCRmED BY METES AND BOUNDS.
WHEREAS~ the City Commission of the City of La Porte
has been requested by the record owner of Lot Sixteen (16)~
Block Fifty (50)~ Sylvan Beach First Subdivision~ Harris County~
Texas~ to vacate~ abandon~ and permanently close that certain
portion of San Jacinto Avenue and Park Avenue~ contiguous to
said Lot Sixteen (16)~ Block Fifty (50)~ Sylvan Beach First
~~ Subdivision~ as more fully hereinafter described by metes and
bounds; and
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WHEREAS~ that certain portion of said San Jacinto Ave-
nue and said Park Avenue~ hereinafter described, although presently
a part of a dedicated right-of-way of said public streets within
the City of La Porte, has never been actually physically opened
or used as a public road, street, or for any other purposes; and
WHEREAS, the hereinafter ,.idescribed portion of the
dedicated rights-of-way of San Jacin'to Avenue and Park Avenue is
not now needed as part of the said rights-of-way, and will not
be so needed in the future; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of La Porte
has determined, and does hereby find, determine and declare,
that the hereinafter described portion of San Jacinto Avenue
and Park Avenue is not suitable, needed or beneficial to the
public as a public road or street, and that the closing of the
hereinafter described portion of said streets would be for the
protection of the public and for the public benefit, and that
said portion of said stFeets should be vacated, abandoned : '
and permanently closed;
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NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, THAT:
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Section 1.
Under and by virtue of the power granted
to the City of La Porte under its Home Rule Charter and Chapter
13, Title 28, Article 1175, of the Revised Civil Statutes of
the State of Texas, 1925, that portion of San Jacinto Avenue
and Park Avenue shown as the shaded area on the City Engineer's
plat attached hereto, incorporated by reference herein, and
made a part hereof for all purposes, as 'Exhibit A", which portion
of said streets is more particularly described by metes and
bounds as follows, to~wit:
BEGINNING at the most easterly corner of Lot 16,
Block 50,- Sylvan Beach First Subdivision, an addition
to the Town of'La Porte, Johnson Hunter Survey, A-35,
Harris County"Texas, as recorded in Volume 3, Page 72
of the Map Records of Harris County, Texas;
THENCE, North ~60 East, with an easterly projection
of the Squth line of Lot 16, Block 50, Sylvan Beach
First Subdivision, a distance of 0.21' to a point
for corner in the southerly projection of the West
line of San Jacinto Avenue;
THENCE North 270 15' West along the southerly pro-
jection of the West line of San Jacinto Avenue, a
distance of 88.62' to a point of curve of a curve
having a Radius of 15' and a central angle of 1260
45' ;
THENCE in a Northwesterly direction along said curve
having a radius of 15' and a central angle of 1260
45' a distance of 33.18' to a point of tangency in
an easterly projection of the North line of Lot 16,
Block 50, Sylv~n Beach First Subdivision;
THENCE South 260 West along the easterly projection
of the North line of Lot 16, Block 50, Sylvan Beach
First Subdivision, a distance of 0.94' to the most
northerly corner of said Lot 16, Block 50, Sylvan
Beach First Subdivision;
THENCE in a southeasterly direction along the East
line of Lot 16, Block 50, being a curve having a
radius of 255' and a central angle of a 0 20' 48"
for a distance of 103.91' to the point of beginning;
is hereby permanently, vacated, abandoned and closed by the City
of La Porte.
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage and approval.
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PASSED AND APPROVED, this the
00 tober, 1965.
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ATTEST:
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City Clerk rof the C1ty~or' La Porte
APPROVED:
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City Engineer
City Attorney