Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Capital Projects
ACM: Jon Fortune
DATE: May 22, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider recommending adoption of an ordinance authorizing the abandonment and release of certain blanket electric utility easements owned by the City, to the extent that they encumber certain real property owned by Micah Deweerd Holdings, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, containing approximately 1.61 acres, as described in that Deed recorded as Instrument Number 2016-140641, Real Property Records, Denton County, Texas; being located in the W. Garrison Survey, Abstract No. 1545, City of Corinth, Texas, and providing an effective date. [Partial abandonment of blanket electric utility easements as they encumber Micah Deweerd Holdings property aka Pecan Creek Addition Lot 2 located within the City of Corinth]
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BACKGROUND
Micah Deweerd Holdings, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, has made a formal request for the City of Denton to abandon certain blanket electric utility easements as they encumber the property of Lot 2 (South part) Block A, Pecan Creek Addition. In 1946 and 1952, Brazos River Transmission Electric Cooperative was granted blanket electric utility easements, subsequently assigned to the City of Denton in 1987 by the Assignment of Easements recorded in Volume 2736, Page 825, Real Property Records, Denton County, Texas. The blanket electric utility easements are being requested for abandonment, as they affect the subject property, are as follows; 1.) Electric Utility Easement as recorded in Volume 332 Page 499, Deed Records, Denton County, 2.) Electric Utility Easement as recorded in Volume 381, Page 490, Deed Records, Denton County, Texas, 3.) Electric Utility Easement as recorded in Volume 384, Page 118, Deed Records, Denton County.
At the time the subject easements were granted, it was common practice to allow electric facilities to traverse a particular overall property, by means of a blanket easement, to forgo the exp...
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