HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1942 ORDINANCE NO. I
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING THAT THE ALLEY IN BLOCK 59,
NORTH FORT WORTS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TARRANT COUN`T'Y, TEXAS, BE ABANDONED, VACATED AND
CLOSED, AND RESERVING AN FASMMqT FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES
IN AND ALONG THE: LAND CONTAINED IN SAID ALLEY, AND
PROVIDING FOR THE REVERSION OF TIM FEE TO SAID LAND.
WHEREAS, it appearing to the City Council of the City of Fort
Worth that the alley running north and south through Block 59, North Fort
Worth Addition, although a duly dedicated and accepted alley for use by
the public, has in fact never been used by the public and that it is to
the best interest of the public that said alley be closed, abandoned and
vacated as a public thoroughfare and the fee to the land in said alley
revert as provided by law, NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT FORTH,
TEXAS:
SECTION I.
That the alley running north and south in Block 59, North Fort
Worth Addition to the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, be and the
same is hereby vacated, closed and permanently abandoned as an alley or
public thoroughfare of any kind or character whatever.
SECTICK II.
That an easement for public utilities is reserved in, along and
under the land embraced in the above described alley.
SECTION III.
That the fee to the land in said alley is hereby released and will
revert to the owners as provided by law.
SECTION IV.
That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
SIPMOI R.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect
from and after the date of its passage.
APPROVZD AS TO FORM AND IMALITY;
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TO THE HON. CITY COUNCIL & THE CITY OF FORT WORTH TEXAS:
Gent lemen:
We , John F. Grant, owner of Lots 9 and 10, in Block 59 , North
Fort -,,forth , Tarrant County, Texas; - Ltiyah . Chilson , owner of
Lots 8 and 11 in said block; mrs.11,1amie A. Dillon, owner of Lot
? and 6 in said block; Mrs. Alice F. Steward, onwer of the North
half of Lot 12 in said block; J,,rs- Rosa E . Johnson, owner of the
South half Of Lot 12 in said block; and mrs. glary Lena Baker, ow-
ner of Lot 13 in said block, hereby petition your honorable body
to cancel,' vacate and close the alley between said lots,facing on
North 1,.-,,ain' Street and north Houston Street, for the following
reasons:
That said alley, beginning at the Northeast corner of Lot No.
9 and the Northwest corner of Lot No. 10, in the North lines of
said lots, extends to the North line of Lot No. 5, in said block,
where same terminates and ends, and it is impossible to travel
through the remaining portion of said block by way of said alley*
That no benefit is to be derived by the public from the use of
said alley as a thoroughfare, and that said alley has never been
used as such since the plating of said block, by the North Fort
Worth TOVMSite Company, and has been closed and fenced by the
owners of the adjacent property from said date to the present time
That the owners herein are the owners of all lots adjoining and
facing said alley.
For your information a plat of said block , showinf, said alley
is hereto attached and made a part of this petition.
ind wejog,�Iarej and Charley Ilitchell, owners respectively of
Lots and a block, herein in requesting the above
action E-y-t e ouncl Respectfully submitted ,
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