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Ordinance No. 1,548ORDINANCE NO.1548
AN ORDINANCE DISCONTINUING,ABANDONING FOR PUBLIC USE AND CLOSING DESCRIBED
PORTIONS OF STREETS IN BUSCH TERRACE SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF BAYTOWN
AND ABANDONING AND QUIT-CLAIMING ALL INTERESTOF THE CITYOF BAYTOWN
AND THE PUBLIC IN AND TO SAID PORTIONS OF STREETS,DIRECTING THAT THE
COUNTY CLERK OF HARRIS COUNTY,TEXAS,SO INDICATE ON THE RECORDED PLAT
OF SAID SUBDIVISION,ANDAUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE AND THE CITY
CLERK TO ATTEST A CONVEYANCE TO THE ABUTTING OWNERS.
WHEREAS,the following portions of streets in Busch Terrace Subdivision
in the City of Baytown,Harris County,Texas,according to the map and plat
thereof recorded in Volume 9,Pages 10 and 11,of the Deed Records of Harris
County,Texas,are notnow used by the public:
Dorris Street
Parcel 1:
Beginning at the southeast corner of Block 25 of said subdivision;
Thence N 56°W 520 feet along the northline of Dorris Street to a
point in the southeast corner of Block 23;
Thence S 34°W 60 feet along the west line of Dorris Street to a
point in the northeast cornerof Block 36;
Thence S 56°E 520 feet along the south line of Dorris Street to a
point in the northeast corner of Block 38;
Thence N 34°E 60 feet along the west line of Airhart Drive to
the point of beginning and containing .7162 acre,more or less.
Crawford Street
Parcel 2:
Beginning at the northeast corner of Block 36 of said subdivision;
Thence S 34°W 200 feet along the west lineof Crawford Street to
a point in the southeast corner of Lot 12,Block 36;
Thence S 56°E 60 feet along the south line of Crawford Street to
a point in the southwest corner of Lot 45,Block 37;
Thence N 34°E 200 feet along the east line of Crawford Street to
a point in the northwest corner of Block 37;
Thence N 56°W 60 feet to the point of beginning and containinq
.275482 acre,more or less.
WHEREAS,no interest of the public requires that said portions of streets
be improved or kept open,but the needs of the public will be adequately served
by theuse of other available streets;and
WHEREAS,the interestof the public will be benefited by the termination
of any obligation on the partof the City of Baytown to repair,improve and
maintain saidportions of streets as public ways;and
WHEREAS,substantially all of the utility facilities,if any,provided
for property abutting upon the above-described portions of streets have here
tofore beenremoved;and
WHEREAS,all of the owners ofproperty abutting or adjoining the above-
described portions of streets in said subdivision have made application that
same be discontinued,closed and abandoned as streets and that the dedications
made in connection with said map or plat of Busch Terrace Subdivision of re
cord as aforesaid be cancelled and held for naught insofar as the same apply
to and affect the above-described portions of streets;and
WHEREAS,it appears to beto the best interest of the Cityof Baytown,
Harris County,Texas,that the above-described portions of streets be dis
continued,closed and abandoned as streets and that the corresponding portions
of said map or plat be vacated,and it further appears that the interest of
no other owners of property in said Busch Terrace Subdivision willbe pre
judiced orimpaired thereby;NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THECITYOF BAYTOWN,TEXAS:
Section 1:That the above-described portions of streets in Busch Terrace
Subdivision,City of Baytown,Harris County,Texas,according to the map or
plat of said subdivision of record in Volume 9,Pages 10 and 11 of the Deed
Records of Harris County,Texas,be andthe same are hereby discontinued and
abandoned for public use,and the City of Baytown does for itself andfor the
public abandon and quit claim all interest in and to the above-described
portions of streets and does hereby approve the application of said owners
of the property abutting said portions of streets,and the County Clerk of
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Harris County,Texas,is directed to write across the corresponding portions
of said plat the word "closed"and also to make reference on the same to the
volume and page in which this ordinance is recorded.The Mayor is hereby
authorized to execute and the City Clerk to attest appropriate conveyances of
saidportions of streets to the owners of propertyabutting same.
Section 2:This ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage
by the City Council of the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED,READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote ofthe City Council of
the City of Baytown,Texas,this 14th day of February ,1974.
TOM GENTRY,Mayor
ATTEST:
EDNA OLIVER,City Clerk
APPROVED:
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NEEL RICHApDSOrK,City Attorney