Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Water and Waste Water
CM/ ACM: Bryan Langley
Date: May 23, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance authorizing the City Manager of the City of Denton, Texas ("City") to execute, for and on behalf of the City, an easement purchase agreement ("Agreement"), as attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit "A," for the purchase price of One Hundred Sixty-Three Thousand Six Hundred Twenty-Four Dollars and No Cents ($163,624.00), and other consideration, as prescribed in the Agreement by and between the City and VMY Properties, LLC providing for the granting to the City of a water and sanitary sewer easement, encumbering a 0.1279 acre tract of land being more particularly described in the Water and Sanitary Sewer Easement, being attached to and made a part of the Agreement, said easement tract being in the Stephen Hembrie Survey, Abstract No. 643, generally located in the 3900 block of Teasley Lane; authorizing the expenditure of funds, providing a savings clause; and providing an effective date. (FM 2181 Utility Relocations Project - Parcel 37)
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BACKGROUND
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is widening FM 2181, beginning at Lillian Miller Parkway and extending south approximately 3.5 miles to the southeastern boundary of Hickory Creek Mobile Home Park (the Project). The Project will increase the roadway section to a six-lane divided arterial. In order to meet the schedule of the highway widening project, the City of Denton's Water and Wastewater utility relocations are being incorporated into TxDOT's roadway construction project bid, as a utility relocation component.
The utility relocation component of the overall Project requires the acquisition of a permanent easement to encumber a tract of land owned by VMY Properties, LLC. The utility design impact on the landowner's property requires the removal of two (2) existing business signs from the proposed easement tract and the rearran...
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