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ORDINANCE NO.2023-3925 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, DECLARING CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY LOCATED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF SPENCER HIGHWAY AND THIRTEENTH STREET AND BEING A 0.057 ACRE TRACT OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, BEING OUT OF LOT 24, BLOCK 719, TOWN OF LA PORTE, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, AS SURPLUS PROPERTY THAT IS NOT INDEPENDENTLY DEVELOPABLE; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL DOCUMENTS NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH THE SALE OF SAID REAL PROPERTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW, TO THE ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNER; FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. WHEREAS, the City of La Porte, Texas, is the owner of real property located near the intersection of Spencer Highway and Thirteenth Street and being a 0.057 acre tract of land, more or less, being out of Lot Twenty-four (24), in Block 719, of the Town of La Porte, a subdivision in Harris County, Texas, according to the map or plat thereof recorded in Volume 58, Page 462, of the Deed Records of Harris County, Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds on Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated by reference (the "Property" herein), and which Property has been determined to be surplus property of no economic or public benefit to the City; and WHEREAS, the Property is presently zoned Light Industrial (LI), but due to irregular shape and small size cannot be independently developed under current zoning and property development regulations of the City; WHEREAS, the owner of real property adjacent to and abutting the Property has offered to purchase the Property from the City; and WHEREAS, Texas Local Government Code Sec. 272.001(b)(1) states that notice and bidding requirements for the sale or exchange of real property owned by a municipality do not apply in the case of "narrow strips of land, or land that because of its shape, lack of access to public roads, or small area cannot be used independently under its current zoning or under applicable subdivision or other development control ordinances'; and WHEREAS, Texas Local Government Code Sec. 272.001(b) provides that a political subdivision must receive fair market value as determined by an appraisal obtained by the political subdivision in cases where real property is conveyed or sold under a qualifying exception to notice and bidding contained in Sec. 272.001(b), unless the conveyance or sale "is with one or more abutting property owners who own the underlying fee simple'; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to sell the Property to Stacy Lowe and husband Jesse Daniel Burris, and Kim DeYoung and wife Linda S. DeYoung, the current owners in fee simple of real property that abuts the Property, for a purchase price of no less than $5,000.00,