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DATE: September 16, 2013
TO: Planning Commission and City Council
FROM: Bill Cobabe, Senior Planner
SUBJECT: Consider a request for a right-of-way (ROW) abandonment
FILE: 818-OB
STAFF REPORT
Planning staff recommends approval, based on the following condition:
1. That an easement be retained for the utilities located in the rear of the parcel.
The City of Beaumont is requesting abandonment of a right-of-way. This right-of-way is
an extension of House Road off Lawrence. It is 80’ wide by 165’ deep, and is located in a
generally residential area.
This item was sent to all interested parties. There is a power line in the rear of the parcel,
so an easement should be designated for the utilities located there.
Exhibits are attached.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES
0.3024 Acre Tract or Parcel of Land
Out of and Part of House Road Right-of-Way
Suburban Acres, Unit Two
Volume 7, Page 193, Map Records
W. B. Dyches League, Abstract No. 17
City of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas
BEING a 0.3024 acre tract or parcel of land out of and part of House Road right-of-way
as recorded on the final plat of Suburban Acres, Unit Two Volume 7, Page 193, Map
Records W. B. Dyches League, Abstract No. 17 City of Beaumont, Jefferson County,
Texas, said 0.3024 acre tract being more particularly described as follows:
NOTE: All bearings are referenced to the Southeasterly line of Lot 1, Block 7 of
the said Suburban Acres, Unit Two, the same being the Northwesterly right-of-way line of
Lawrence Drive, as SOUTH 35°31’30” WEST as recorded in Volume 7, Page 193, Map
Records, Jefferson County, Texas. All set 5/8” iron rods set with caps stamped “M. W.
Whiteley & Associates”.
COMMENCING at a 5/8” iron rod with cap stamped “M. W. Whitely & Associates”
found for the most Easterly corner of Lot 1, Block 7 and the most Southerly corner of Lot
2, Block 7 of the said Suburban Acres, Unit Two, and said corner being in the
Northwesterly right-of-way line of Lawrence Drive (based on a width of 80 feet);
THENCE SOUTH 35°31’30” WEST, along and with the Southeasterly line of the said
Lot 1 and the Northwesterly line of the said Lawrence Drive, for a distance of 99.99 feet
to a ½” iron rod found for the most easterly corner and the POINT OF BEGINNING of
the tract hererin described;
THENCE SOUTH 35°00’06” WEST, continuing along and with the Northwesterly
right-of-way line of Lawrence Drive, for a distance of 79.82 feet to a concrete monument
found for corner;
THENCE NORTH 54°41’06” WEST, passing at a distance of 20.06 feet a 5/8” iron rod
found for a corner in the Northeasterly line of Lot 10, Block 6 of the said Suburban Acres,
and continuing along and with the Northeasterly line of the said Lot 10 and the
Southwesterly right-of-way line of House Road, for a total distance of 165.00 feet to a
5/8” iron rod set for corner, said corner being the most northerly corner of the said lot 10
and in the Southeasterly line of that certain called 131.467 acre tract of land as described
in a “Warranty Deed” from H. G. Nichols, Sr. to Howard Grant Nichols Family Limited
Partnership as recorder in Clerk’s File NO. 2000016829, Official Public Records of Real
Property, Jefferson County, Texas and from said corner to a found concrete monument
bears NORTH 18°21’12” WEST a distance of 0.54 feet;
THENCE NORTH 35° 09’03” EAST, along and with the boundary between the
Northwesterly right-of-way line of House Road and the Southeasterly line of the said
131.467 acre Howard Grant Nichols Family Limited Partnership tract, for a distance of
79.97 feet to a ½” iron rod found for corner, said corner being the most Westerly corner
of the said Lot 1, Block 7, and from said corner a found concrete monument bears
SOUTH 53°49’49” EAST a distance of 0.49 feet;
THENCE SOUTH 54°37’56” EAST, along and with the Southwesterly line of the said
Lot 1, Block 7 and the Northeasterly right-of-way line of House Road, passing at a
distance of 144.85 feet a 5/8” iron rod set for corner in the Southwesterly line of the said
Lot 1, Block 7 and continuing for a total distance of 164.79 feet to the POINT OF
BEGINNING and containing 0.3024 acres, more or less.