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KENNEDALE ORDINANCE NO. 65-20
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF KENNEDALE, TEXAS,
VACATING AND ABANDONING A PLATTED UTILITY
EASEMENT ACROSS LOTS 1 AND 2, OF BLOCK 1,
WOODLEA ACRES ADDITION, SAID VACATED EASE-
MENT ABUTTING THE COMMON BOUNDARY LINE OF
LOTS 1 AND 2.
WHEREAS, H. J. Taylor is the owner of the
northwest 27.5 feet of Lot 1, and the southeast 42.5 feet
of Lot 2, Woodlea Acres Addition to the City of Kennedale,
Tarrant County, Texas, as said tract is described in deed
recorded in Volume 2814, page 215, Deed Records of Tarrant
County, Texas, and has made application to the City of
Kennedale for the vacation of a platted utility easement
abutting the common boundary lines of said Lots 1 and 2;
and
WHEREAS, there is platted on the plat of
Woodlea Acres Addition, recorded in Volume 388-A, Page
130, Deed Records of Tarrant County,Texas, a four foot
utility easement along the southeast boundary line of
said Lot 2, and a four foot utility easement along the
northwest boundary line of said Lot 1, Block 1, Woodlea
Acres Addition; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of
Kennedale, Texas, has found and determined, after investi-
gation and hearing, that the said above described platted
utility easement, being eight feet in width along the
common boundary line of said Lots 1 and 2, Block 1,
Woodlea Acres Addition, has never been used as a
public utility easement, that a frame residence has
been aonstructed and situated across said platted utility
easement for a number of years, that there is no necessity
for the continuation of said utility easement and no
publicpurpose would be served by its continuation, and
that said utility easement has been for all practical
purposes abandoned, and that it would be to the best
interest of the City of Kennedale, its citizens and
inhabitants, as well as the owners of said property,
that same be vacated and abandoned of record; now,
therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KENNEDALE, TEXAS:
1. That the utility easement shown of record
across Lots 1 and 2, Block 1, Woodlea Acres Addition to
the City of Kennedale, Texas, according to plat recorded
in Volume 388-A, page 130, Deed Records of Tarrant County,
Texas, being a four foot wide strip of land along the
northwest boundary line of said Lot 1 and four foot strip
of land along the southeast boundary line of said Lot 2,
be, and said utility ease -lent is hereby vacated and
abandoned by the City of Kennedale, Texas.
2. That a certified copy of this ordinance
be placed of record in the office of the County Clerk
of Tarrant County, Texas, to evidence the vacation and
abandonment of saidutility easement across Lots 1 and
2, Block 1, Woodlea Acres Addition to the City of
Kennedale, Tarrant County, Texas, by said City of
Kennedale, Texas.
3. That this ordinance shall be in effect
immediately upon its passage and approval by the Mayor
or Mayor Pro Tempore, duly attested by the City Secretary.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 9th day of December,
1965.
CERTIFICA`E
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
COUNTY OF TARRANT:
CITY OF KENNEDALE:
I, Nettie 0. Roberts, City Secretary of the City
of Kennedale, Texas, hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is a true and correct copy of Kennedale Ordinance
No. 65-20, unanimously adopted by the City Council of the
City of Kennedale, Texas, at a regular meeting of said
City Council held at the Kennedale City Hall on the 9th
day of December, 1965, as same appears of record in the
minutes of said City Council.
WITNESS MY HAND and the official seal of the
City of Kennedale, Texas, this / day of December,
1965.