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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br /> <br />1017 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE VACATING, ABANDONING AND CLOSING CERTAIN PORTIONS <br />OF SEVENTEENTH (17TH) STREET; CERTAIN PORTIONS OF WEST "G" <br />STREET; AND CERTAIN PORTIONS OF WEST IIHII STREET; AND VACATING, <br />ABANDONING AND CLOSING THE ALLEYS LYING WITHIN BLOCKS EIGHT <br />HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE (833), EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR (834), <br />EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE (859), EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY (860), <br />EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE (869), AND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY <br />(870), IN THE TOWN OF LA PORTE, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS; AND <br />PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of La Porte has <br />been requested by the record owner of all of the property <br />abutting Seventeenth (17th) Street, from the north right-of-way <br /> <br />line of West "I" Street to the south right-of-way line of <br /> <br />West "FII Street; West IIHII Street from the west right-of-way <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />line of South Sixteenth (16th) Street to the west property <br />line of Blocks Eight Hundred Fifty-nine (859) and Eight Hundred <br /> <br />Seventy (870), Town of La Porte, Harris County, Texas; and <br />West "G" Street from the west right-of-way line of South <br /> <br />Sixteenth (16th) Street to the west property line of Blocks <br /> <br />Eight Hundred Thirty-four (834) and Eight Hundred Fifty-nine <br /> <br />(859), Town of La Porte, Harris County, Texas; to vacate, <br /> <br />abandon and permanently close said portions of said streets; <br /> <br />and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the said portions of said streets have never <br /> <br />been opened or used as public roads or streets; and <br /> <br />-e <br /> <br />WHEREAS, said portion of Seventeenth (17th) Street is <br />one block west of and parallel to Sixteenth (16th) Street, <br /> <br />which is a main traffic artery and thoroughfare in the City <br /> <br />of La Porte, and the said Sixteenth (16th) Street will in <br /> <br />the future continue to furnish all needed access and thorough- <br /> <br />fare for traffic of any nature; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of La Porte has <br /> <br />determined and does hereby find, determine and declare that <br />the hereinafter described portions of Seventeenth (17th) <br /> <br />Street; West "HII Street; and West "G" Street; are not suit- <br /> <br />able, needed, or beneficial to the public as public roads or <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />streets, and that the closing of the hereinafter described <br />