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A Resolution
WHEREAS, the State Department of Highways and Public Transpor-
tation has begun to proceed with plans to improve
traffic safety conditions at the location of the
intersection of State Highway 199 (Jacksboro Highway)
and the public streets of Love Circle and Watercress
Drive, including plans to reconstruct the nearby
Jacksboro Highway bridge over Lake Worth; and
WHEREAS, it has been proposed that the physical closure of
Watercress Drive at its intersection with State
Highway 199 and the construction of a median extension
so as to prevent turning movements off of and onto
Jacksboro Highway at this intersection will signifi-
cantly improve traffic safety at this location; and
WHEREAS, the Transportation and Public Works Department of the
City of Fort Worth has endorsed this concept and re-
quested that appropriate action be taken to physically
close Watercress Drive at its intersection with
State Highway 199; and
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Worth is the owner in fee simple of
the property abutting on Watercress Drive at its
intersection with State Highway 199; and
WHEREAS, the City Plan Commission has reviewed the request to
physically close Watercress Drive at its intersection
with State Highway 199 and has approved the request
and recommends physical closure; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS:
That, Watercress Drive, . a public street within the City of
` Fort Worth, be physically closed to vehicular traffic at its
intersection with State Highway 199 (Jacksboro Highway) so as to
prevent direct vehicular traffic access to said State High-
way 199 from Watercress Drive and from said State Highway 199 to
Watercress Drive, with the City to retain title to the public
right-of-way and retaining any and all easements for existing
and prospective utility facilities, with the design for physical
closure to be at the direction of and with the approval of the
Transportation and Public Works Director of the City of Fort
Worth.
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In addition, the City reserves the right, at the sole
discretion of the City Council, to reopen by resolution the
aforesaid Watercress Drive to public travel at any time the
public interest requires same to be reopened.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Fort
Worth, Texas, this day of , 1984.
Mayor
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