DEPARTMENT: Capital Projects
ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: April 18, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance abandoning and vacating 0.025 acre of Hickory Street, as dedicated by The Original Town of Denton Texas plat as recorded in Cabinet A Page 200, Plat Records, Denton County, Texas and as conveyed to the City of Denton as recorded in Volume 341, Page 527 of the Real Property Records of Denton County, Texas, and located in the H. Cisco survey, Abstract No. 1184, to resolve the building encroachment within Hickory Street; and declaring an effective date. [Partial abandonment of Hickory Street - adjacent to and the front of the Denton Record Chronicle Building located along Hickory Street]
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BACKGROUND
Headliner Investments, Ltd., property owner of 314 E. Hickory Street, has made a formal request for the City of Denton to abandon a portion of Hickory Street as it affects its building that encroaches into said Street. The property owner purchased the property in May of 2016 from Denton Publishing Company. During the transaction it was discovered that a portion of the existing building encroached into the right-of-way Hickory Street. The property owner then contacted City Staff to discuss the encroachment issue. At that time Staff recommended they define the abandonment tract and request an abandonment by way of the formal City Right-of-Way Abandonment process. In order to resolve and cure the encumbrance, the property owner is requesting a portion of Hickory Street be abandoned.
In 1947 the main parent building on the property was erected. An addition to the facade of the main building was made in 1971 which created the Hickory Street encroachment. It was discovered in May of 2016 that the front portion of building has been in its current configuration and has encroached into the right-of-way of Hickory Street since 1971. The building site is also known as the Denton Record Chronicle building, which was previously owned by Denton Publishin...
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