Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Services
ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: December 6, 2016
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance closing, abandoning and vacating the right of way of Gary Street, conveyed in Volume 66 Page 623, Deed Records, Denton County, Texas, and located in the B.B.B. & C.R.R. Survey, Abstract No. 185, to accommodate construction by the Denton Independent School District; and declaring an effective date. [Abandonment of Gary Street - situated between North Locust and North Elm Street - DISD Administration facility expansion]
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BACKGROUND
Denton Independent School District "DISD" has made a formal request for the City of Denton to abandon Gary Street. DISD is in the planning stages of near-term parking lot improvements and, in the long-term, a potential expansion of its Administration Building facility footprint.
In 1997, DISD acquired property tracts on the south side of Gary Street, with the long range outlook of someday assembling those tracts with their Administration Building property tract, situated on the north side of Gary Street. The abandonment of Gary Street, a "mid-block" street with no connectivity beyond the one block, will have a nominal impact regarding traffic and pedestrian mobility for the area, since the Second Street and Third Street connectors between North Elm Street and North Locust Street are within 500 feet of each other. No public or franchised utilities exist within the subject right-of-way abandonment tract. There are only DISD service lines exiting within the subject right-of-way tract, and DISD is planning to address them at permitting/construction of their slated improvements.
The subject abandonment request was reviewed by The Development Review Committee, and staff recommends the approval of the request.
Staff performs an analysis on the request for abandonments as follows:
? Is the right-of-way tract requested for abandonment considered "excess right-of-way?"
? Does the righ...
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