Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Services
ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: February 13, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider recommending the adoption an ordinance defining a 0.084 acre portion of a 9.5 acre blanket electric easement recorded in Volume 357, Page 48, Deed Records, Denton County, Texas, and located in the R.B. Longbottom Survey, Abstract No. 775; providing for severability and an effective date. [Blanket electric easement description refinement to provide for specific location of electric infrastructure]
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BACKGROUND
The property owner, Victory & 288 LLC., has made a formal request for the City of Denton to abandon a blanket electric easement as it encumbers their property at 3012 E. University, Denton Texas 76209. In 1947, Brazos Electric Cooperative was granted a blanket electric easement, subsequently assigned to the City of Denton. As was common practice during that time, especially regarding rural lands, electric companies acquired easements to allow electric facilities to traverse a particular overall property tract, primarily to forgo the expense of boundary survey work and the preparation of specific legal descriptions of where the electric facilities would be constructed. Blanket easements also gave field installation crews some latitude to adjust alignments as terrain and conditions warranted, on a tract by tract basis. It was simple practice and simpler times. A consequence of blanket easements are that, upon strict interpretation, the easement holder does have the right to place electric facilities at any location upon a property tract subject to that easement. The subject abandonment request will define the electric easement boundaries on the subject property. Currently located on the property is an electric line that provides service to the property. The electric facilities on the property have been located and defined by the attached survey exhibit referenced below. The subject abandonment request will also aid the...
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