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DATE: March 19,
2007
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Consider a request for an abandonment of a portion of
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Blanchette Street, between 11 and 12 Streets.
FILE: 714 - OB
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval subject to the following
condition:
1. Coordinate the relocation of service lines with Entergy
and Time Warner (Entergy and Time Warner)
Jefferson County Drainage District #6 has requested the
abandonment of an 80' section of Blanchette Street, between
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11 and 12 Streets. DD#6 has developed a plan to help relieve
the flooding in the Corley-Cartwright area of Beaumont. This
undeveloped portion of Blanchette is included within a proposed
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detention basin. Blanchette, east of 12 and west of the
subject property, has already been abandoned.
This item was sent to all interested parties. Water Utilities
has a 12" sanitary sewer line in the right-of-way. DD#6 has
informed Water Utilities that it will work around the sewer
line. Entergy and Time Warner have service lines in the
right-of-way. DD#6 will need to coordinate with those
companies to relocate those lines.
Exhibits are attached.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR ORDINANCES PURPOSES
Being a 60' x 80' portion of Blanchette Street, beginning at
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a point 640' from the west right-of-way line of 11 Street,
then in a westerly direction for a distance of 80' to a point
which is also the east boundary line of what is known as A Tract
E @, City of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, containing 0.11
acres, more or less.
GENERAL INFORMATION/PUBLIC UTILITIES
APPLICANT: Doug Canant for Jefferson
County Drainage District #6
PROPERTY OWNER: City of Beaumont
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LOCATION: 640' west of 11 Street
EXISTING ZONING: LI (Light Industrial)
District
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.11 acres, more or less
EXISTING LAND USES: Undeveloped city right-of-way
FLOOD HAZARD ZONE: A X @ - Areas determined to be
outside 500-year floodplain
SURROUNDING LAND USES: SURROUNDING ZONING:
NORTH: Vacant LI (Light Industrial) District
EAST: Vacant LI
SOUTH: Vacant LI
WEST: Vacant LI
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Conservation and
Revitalization
STREETS: Blanchette Street - Local street
with 60' wide right-of-way,
unimproved
DRAINAGE: N/A
WATER: None
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE: 12" sanitary sewer line