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ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE VACATING AND ABANDONING A PORTION
OF WEST THIRD STREET IN THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN,
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS, AS SET FORTH AND DESCRIBED
IN EXHIBIT "A" HERETO ATTACHED, AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN,
TEXAS:
WHEREAS, a petition has been presented to the City Council by the Urban Renewal
Agency of the City of Georgetown, and Jessie Lee Tanksley, with respect to certain pro-
perties situated;in the Urban Renewal Project, South San Gabriel, Texas R-102; and
WHEREAS, said petition states that the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Georgetown
and Jessie Lee Tanksley are the sole owners of that portion of Block 17 of the original -
Townsite of Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas, which adjoins on the south that cortion
of West Third Street described in Exhibit "A" hereto attached; and
WHEREAS, the Urban Renewal Plan for this portion of the City of Georgetown calls
for the property owned by said Jessie Lee Tanksley be to developed along with a portion of
the property described in Exhibit "A" hereto attached, and said Jessie Lee Tanksley has
entered into a Redevelopment Contract with said Agency for the redevelopment of Lot 1,
Block 17 of said Original Townsite of Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas, of which
she is the owner, and in order for her to proceed with such redevelopment, it is necessary
that such portion of West Third Street be vacated and abandoned; now therefore be it
ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN,
TEXAS, that the portion of West Third Street described in Exhibit "A" hereto attached,
be and the some is hereby vacated, closed and abandoned.
and, WHEREAS, in order to avoid a thirty days' delay in the redevelopment by said
Jessie Lee Tanksley of her property, it is declared that there is an emergency for this Ordinance
to be passed on First Reading, and the some is so passed on First Reading, the Second Reading
being dispensed with for the reasons set forth herein.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 10th day of November, 1975.
ATTEST:
W. L. Walden, City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Joe B. McMaster, City Attorney
Joe E. Crawford, Mayor, City of Georgetown
QC:
EXHIBIT "A"
FIELD NOTES FOR URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY
\/acation of the South one-half of 3rd. Street between the West margin of Timber Street
and the East margin of West Street.
BEING a 30 foot wide strip of land off of the South margin of 3rd Street between the
West margin of Timber Street and the East margin of West Street, in the City of Georgetown,
Williamson County, Texas, according to the official map thereof and being more particularily
described as follows.
BEGINNING at the Northeast corner of Block 17 in the City of Georgetown, Williamson
County, Texas, said point being where the South margin of 3rd Street intersects the West
margin of Timber Street;
THENCE West, 240.00 feet along the North boundary line of Block 17 and the South margin
of 3rd Street to the Northwest corner of Block 17, said point being on the East margin of
West Street;
THENCE North, 30.00 feet to a point;
THENCE East, 240.00 feet with the center line of 3rd street to a point on the West margin
of Timber Street,
THENCE South, 30.00 feet to the PLACE OF BEGINNING and containing 7,200 square
feet.
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSON
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
I, RESSELL D. PARKER, do hereby certify that I did survey on the ground the above described
tract of land and that to the best of my knowledge and belief, said description is true and
correct.
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL on this the 1st day of August, 1975.
RUSSELL D. PARKER
REGISTERED PUBLIC SURVEYOR NO. 1661