Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Services
CM/ ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: August 16, 2016
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton determining the public use, need, and necessity for the acquisition of various permanent easements and temporary construction easements generally located along U.S. Highway 377 (Fort Worth Drive) the limits of which being bounded to the north by Interstate Highway 35 East and to the south by FM 1830 (Country Club Road) and being situated in the A. Hill Survey, Abstract No. 623, the S. Hiram Survey, Abstract 616, the W. Daniel Survey, Abstract 378, the A. Hickman Survey, Abstract 521 and the B.B.B & C.R.R. Survey, Abstract 196, City and County of Denton, Texas, and with the use, purpose and legal descriptions of each easement being more particularly described in the attached Exhibit "A" (the "Property Interests"); authorizing the City Manager and City Attorney, or their respective designees, to acquire the property interests by agreement including making all offers required by law; authorizing the use of the power of eminent domain to condemn the property interests if an agreement cannot be reached; and authorizing the City Attorney, or her designee, to file eminent domain proceedings if necessary; authorizing the expenditure of funding; makings findings; providing a savings clause; and providing an effective date. [Fort Worth Drive Utility Relocations project] The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (6-0).
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BACKGROUND
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is widening Fort Worth Drive, beginning at IH-35E and extending south approximately 1.7 miles to south of FM 1830 (Country Club Road). The project will increase the mostly two lane roadway section to a six-lane divided arterial. TxDOT has scheduled the widening project to be bid in February 2017. Ninety-Five percent (95%) Plans for the roadway project have been distributed to the affected utility providers; some o...
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