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DATE: October 16,
2006
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for an abandonment of a 20' wide alley in
Block 40, Van Wormer Addition.
FILE: 702-OB
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval of this request.
Mark W. Whiteley & Associates is requesting the abandonment of a
20' x 141' portion of an alley located in Block 40 of the Van Wormer
Addition. This request is being made to allow the owner to utilize the
land on both sides of the alley for a single use. In 1989, the City
abandoned the southwesterly half of the alley.
This item was sent to all interested parties. No negative responses
have been received.
Exhibits are attached.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCE PURPOSES
Being a 20' x 141' portion of the alley beginning in the west
right-of-way line of Orange Street and continuing southwesterly to
what is the southwest corner of Lot 3, Block 40 and the northwest
corner of Lot 10, Block 40, Van Wormer Addition, City of Beaumont,
Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.06 acres, more or less.
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT: Mark W. Whiteley &
Associates
PROPERTY OWNER: City of Beaumont
LOCATION: West of Orange and south of Rev.
C.W. Daniels/Cedar Street
EXISTING ZONING: HI (Heavy Industrial) District
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.06 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES: City alley right-of-way
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be
outside 500-year floodplain
SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Industrial HI (Heavy Industrial) District
EAST: Church HI
SOUTH: Industrial HI
WEST: Industrial HI
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Conservation and
Revitalization
OTHER PHYSICAL
FEATURES: None
STREETS: Unimproved alley
DRAINAGE: Unimproved
WATER: No water lines in alley.
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: No sanitary sewer lines in alley.