AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Capital Projects
ACM: Mario Canizares
DATE: July 10, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider recommending adoption of an ordinance releasing, abandoning and vacating a 0.083 acre electric easement granted to the city of Denton, Texas, by Alex Williams on October 11, 1956 and recorded in Volume 426 Page 97, Deed Records, Denton County, Texas, and located in Block 20 of the Original Town of Denton, Denton County, Texas; providing for severability and an effective date. [Abandonment of an electric easement located in the downtown Wells Fargo parking lot, so that it may clear the area for future development]
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BACKGROUND
Apartments at Victoria Square #1, L.L.C., a Texas Limited Liability Company has made a formal request for the City of Denton to abandon its electric easement located on and across its property located at 115 E. Mulberry Street, also known as the Wells Fargo downtown parking lot. The existing electric easement was dedicated in 1956 for the benefit of an electric transformer bank to serve the property. Currently there are no public electric facilities within the subject easement and no plans for future use either. The current property owner is entertaining the idea of developing its property at this location. In order for the property owner to develop the property the subject electric easements needs to be formally abandoned to clear the location for possible improvements. Denton Municipal Electric has reviewed the request and approves the abandonment. This abandonment request is to formally remove the encumbrance from the property.
The subject abandonment request was reviewed by The Development Review Committee, and staff recommends the approval.
Staff performs an analysis on the request for abandonments as follows:
* Is the easement tract requested for abandonment considered "excess easement"?
* Does the easement tract requested for abandonment have a continued public use?
* Is it the best interests of the gen...
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