Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Denton Municipal Electric
ACM: Howard Martin
Date: February 21, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption an ordinance defining a 0.084 acre portion of a 9.5 acre blanket electric easement assigned to the City of Denton from Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., recorded in Volume 1106, Page 78 of the Deed Records of Denton County Texas, being originally conveyed by Billy W. Claytor and W.O. Claytor to Brazos River Transmission Electric Cooperative, Inc., recorded in Volume 357, Page 48, Deed Records, Denton County, Texas, easement 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. Presently, their property tract, a former Shell gas station business, has not been occupied for many years. In 1947, Brazos River Transmission Electric Cooperative, Inc. was granted a blanket electric easement that encumbered a 9.5 acre property tract. That easement was subsequently assigned to the City of Denton in 1981, as part of a City's purchase of electric line segments from that entity. As was common practice during the time or rural electrification projects, 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 ea...
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