Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Services
ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: August 16, 2016
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance releasing, abandoning and vacating a 0.103 acre portion of a 0.187 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 a portion of public utility easement to allow for lot development: DME Locust Street Substation] The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (6-0).
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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 slated for the construction of a new electric substation facility 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 accommodate public utilities in the area. With the planned construction of the substation, the utility extensions are no longer necessary and will be taken out of service within the easement abandonment area. The Development Review Committee has reviewed and approved the construction plans to address the removal and construction of the public utilities. The subject easement is an encumbrance to the planned substation. The partial easement abandonment will allow Denton Municipal Electric to utilize the entire substation tract, unencumbered.
The subject abandonment request was reviewed by The Development Review Committee, and staff recommends the approval.
Staff performs an analysis on the request 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 ...
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