Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Services
ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: August 8, 2016
SUBJECT
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Consider recommendation of adopting of an ordinance partially releasing, abandoning and vacating a 0.188 acre public utilities easement recorded in Volume 923 Page 431, Deed Records, Denton County, Texas, and located in the A. Hill Survey, Abstract No. 623; and declaring an effective date. [Abandonment of public utility easement to allow for lot development; Locust Substation Addition]
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BACKGROUND
Denton Municipal Electric is developing a tract of land located at the southwest corner of Collins Street and South Locust Street known as the Locust Substation Addition. This location is for the construction of a new electric substation to aid the City wide power grid. In order to construct the new substation, Denton Municipal Electric has made a formal request to partially abandon an easement on the subject tract. The easement was dedicated to the City of Denton in 1978 to aid with the public utilities of the area. With the planned construction of the substation, said utilities are no longer necessary. The Development Review Committee has reviewed and approved the construction plans to address the removal and construction of the public utilities. The subject easement has created a burden on the planned substation. The partial easement abandonment will allow Denton Municipal Electric to utilize the entire tract for the necessary electrical improvements.
The subject abandonment request was reviewed by the Development Review Committee, and staff recommends the approval.
Staff performs an analysis on requests for abandonments as follows:
* Is the easement tract requested for abandonment considered "excess easement"?
* Does the easement tract requested for abandonment have a continued public use?
? Is it in the best interest of the general public to abandon the government's rights in the subject abandonment tract?
??Would the granting of this ...
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