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'1t. ~'. .',. .' '. . . ORDINANCE NO. 892 AN ORDINANCE VACATING, ABANDONING AND CLOSING A PORTION OF PARK AVENUE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: WHERBAS, the City Commission of the City of La Porte has been requested by the record owners of all of the property abutting the hereinafter described portion of Park Avenue, to vacate, abandon, and permanently close said portion of Park Avenue; 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 Park Avenue is not suit- able, needed, or beneficial to the public as a public road or street, and that the closing of the hereinafter described portion of Park Avenue is for the protection of the public and for the public interest and benefit, and that the herein- after described portion of said Park Avenue should be vacated, abandoned, and permanently closed: Section 1. Under and by virtue of the power granted to the City of La Porte under its Home Rule Charter and Chap. 13, Title 28, Art..1175, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, 1925, the hereinafter described portion of Park Avenue is hereby permanently vacated, abandoned, and closed by the City of La Porte, to-wit: Being all that portion of the East 40 feet of Park Avenue, W. B. Lowrance Subdivision of the Johnson Hunter League, A-35, La Porte, Harris County, Texas, as recorded in Volume 85, at pages 596 and 597 of the Deed Records of Harris County, Texas, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a 3/411 iron rod in the East right-of-way line of Park Avenue; said point being the Southeast corner of that East 40 feet of Park Avenue as vacated and abandoned by the Harris County Commissioners Court on August 26, 1968, and recorded in the minutes of said court at Volume 68, Page 7; THENCh South, along the East right-of-way line of Park Avenue, and being the West line of the Frank Bonner Howard 3.95 acre Tract No.3, as recorded in Volume 3319, Page 7, of the Harris County Deed Records, a distance of 656.16 feet to the Southwest corner of "