R72RESOLUTION NO. 72 $ CP`�Tf? 'F'C '• '•"
A RESOLULTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KENNEDALE TEXAS, REQUESTING THE TEXAS
TRANSPORTATION COMI4IISSION REMOVE A PORTION OF B.U.
HIGHWAY 287 FROM THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM AND
REQUESTING THE TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION AND
MAINTENANCE OF THE ROADWAY TOT HE CITY OF KENNEDALE.
WHEREAS, Tarrant county acquired in 1932 and holds in its own name right -of -way on
B.U. Highway 287, old Fort Wroth - Mansfield Highway (old State Highway 34) as described in
Exhibit A, attached hereto and made a part hereof, for the use and benefit of the State of Texas;
and
WHEREAS, the City of Kennedale has requested the Texas Department of
Transportation transfer jurisdiction and maintenance responsibilities to the City of Kennedale.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
KENNEDALE, TEXAS:
The City of Kennedale requests the Texas Transportation Commission remove the portion of
roadway described in Exhibit A, from the Texas Highway System and transfer the responsibility
for jurisdiction and maintenance to the City of Kennedale.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KENNEDALE, TEXAS on this 13 day of November, 1997.
I_ \7i ;7�I��iS
Mayor Robert P: undy
ATTEST:
City Sec etary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
EXHIBIT "A"
Tract 9 -97
Page 1 of 2
October 20, 1997
Being 7.031 square feet of land, more or less, situated in the County of Tarrant, State of Texas,
and being out of the David Strickland Survey, A 1376 and being a portion of that certain 4.234
acre Tract 3, conveyed by John W. Wray and Wife Lottie J. to Tarrant County, Texas as recorded
in Volume 1154, Page 515 of the Deed Records, Tarrant county, Texas, dated November 14,
1931, and being a portion of that certain 2.176 acre Tract 1, conveyed by J. L. Britton and wife
M.E. to Tarrant County, Texas as recorded in Volume 1163, Page 203 of the Deed Records,
Tarrant County, Texas, dated March 28, 1932, which 7,031 square feet of land, more or less,
being particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a monument at the intersection of the north right -of -way line of B.U. Highway
287 and the west right -of -way line of the old Fort Worth - Mansfield Highway (old State Highway
34), being in the northwesterly property line for said Tarrant County Tract 3, point being the most
easterly corner of Parcel 3 conveyed to the State of Texas for old State Highway 34 as recorded in
Volume 11563, Page 1127 of the Deed Records, Tarrant County, Texas, point also being 53.53
feet northerly of and radially opposite to the centerline of B.U. 287 at Station 546 + 27.44;
THENCE in a northerly direction along the west right -of -way line said Tract 3 along a curve to
the left having a radius of 11.70 feet, through a central angle of 39 an arc distance of 8.01
feet (chord bears N 17 °03'32" E, 7.85 feet) to the end of said curve;
THENCE North 12 °21'24" East (called N 9 1 56' E) continuing along the westerly right -of -way
line of Tract 3, a distance of 102.50 feet (called 100 feet) to the northwest comer of said tract;
THENCE South 69 °31'10" East, a distance of 26.57 feet to the northeast corner of said Tract 1;
THENCE South 9 °15'06" East (called S 9 °56' E) along the easterly right -of -way line of said
Tract 1, a distance of 101.40 feet to a point on a curve to the left;
THENCE in a southeasterly direction continuing along the easterly right -of -way line of said
Tract 1 with said curve to the left having a radius of 224.00 feet, through a central angle of
20 1 21'09 ", an are distance of 79.57 feet (chord bears S 9 °34'51" E, 79.15 feet) to a point in the
northeasterly right -of -way line of B.U. Highway 287, said point being the northwest comer of
Parcel 6 conveyed to the State of Texas for B.U. Highway 287 as recorded in Volume 11457,
Page 2149 of the Deed Records, Tarrant County, Texas;
THENCE North 44 °34'08" West along the proposed northeasterly right -of -way line of B.U.
Highway 287, a distance of 112.01 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING.
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