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WHEREAS, the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
has been appropriated monies to construct'a ward building at its Beaumont State
Center for Human Development; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Beaumont proposes to transfer fee title to the Texas
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to the following described
property for the purpose of constructing a ward building: The said proposed
tract is a strip of land 900 feet in length and 475 feet in width off of the
north side of what is now known as the City of Beaumont Central Park property
in the David Brown Survey, Jefferson County,.Texas, adjacent to the present
site of the Beaumont State Center for Human Development and more particularly
described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a stake for corner in the South line of Fannin
Street, said point being located 300 feet East of the inter-
section of the South line of Fannin Street and the East line
of Eighth Street;
THENCE North 89°58140" East along the South I.ine of Fannin
Street a distance of 900 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE South 0°4' West along a line that is 1200 feet
from and parallel to the East line of Eighth Street a
distance of 475 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE South 89°58140" West along a line that is 475 feet
from & parallel to the South line of Fannin Street a
distance of 900 feet to a point for corner, said point be-
ing the Southeast corner of a 100 foot strip of land pre-
viously conveyed by the City of Beaumont to the State of
Texas by warranty deed recorded in Vol. 1467, Page I, of
the Deed Records of Jefferson County, Texas;
THENCE North 0°4' East along a line that is 300 feet from
and parallel to the East line of Eighth Street, a distance
of 475 feet to the PLACE OF BEGINNING and containing 9.81
acres of land more or less; and,
WHEREAS, a public hearing was held in the City Council Chambers of the
City of Beaumont on November 30, 1973, to determine whether there was any fea-
sible and prudent alternative to the use or taking of land which had heretofore
been used as park land by the City of Beaumont and whether the program or project
included all reasonable planning to minimize harm to the land as park land; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Beaumont gave and published proper notice's of the
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public hearing in accord with the requirements of Article 5421q, V.A.C.S.,; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the athletic complex known as Cen-
tral Park had become inadequate to serve the needs of the citizens of Beaumont.
31.908 acres of land out of Central Park has been sold and the money derived
from the said sale was used to purchase 123,725 acres of land which is pre-
sently being developed as an athletic complex for the City of Beaumont. Ap-
proximately 13.924 acres of the Central Park Athletic Complex.are presently
in use as a neighborhood park located at the corner of Fannin and Fourth Streets
in the City of Beaumont. The subject property, approximately 9..814 acres of
land, contained only one Little League baseball diamond, and plans have been
made to relocate this diamond to another location; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the newathleticcomplex will be
of much greater value to the citizens of Beaumont than the much smaller Cen-
tral Park athletic complex; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the replacement of the Central
Park Athletic Complex with a much more useful one and the retention of a neigh-
borhood park in the same area as the Central Park Athletic Complex constitutes
reasonable planning to minimize harm to the subject land as a park; and,
WHERLAS, the City Council finds that the Beaumont State Center for Human
Development, if it is to expand its premises, has no feasible and prudent al-
ternative other than the use and taking of the 9.814 acres of land out of the
Central Park Athletic Complex;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT:.
THAT the City Council hereby finds from evidence adduced at a properly consti-
tuted public hearing that there is no feasible and prudent alternative for the
Beaumont State Center for Human Development if it is to expand its facilities
other than the use and taking of the 9.814 acre tract of land described above,
which land is adjacent to the present site of the Beaumont State Center for
Human Development; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council from evidence adduced at
a properly constituted publi.c hearing finds that the project includes all
reasonable planning to minimize harm to the land as a park in that a much larger
and more useful site for an athletic complex has been obtained through the
sale of a portion of the presently existing athletic complex, and a neighbor-
hood park has been retained at the corner of Fannin and Fourth Streets for
the use of the residents of the immediate area.
It is therefore further resolved by the City Council of the City of
Beaumont that the City Manager be, and he is hereby authorized to execute a
warranty deed transferring fee title to the Texas Department of Mental Health
and Mental Retardation of 9,814 acres of land as described above for the sole
purpose of constructing a ward building at its Beaumont State Center for Human
Development; and the City Clerk is hereby authorized to attest to said deed,
and to affix the Seal of the City of Beaumont thereto,
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Beaumont this the
day of %C�L�, 1973,
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