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0353CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, ABANDONING A PORTION OF OAK KNOLLS DRIVE WHICH IS NO LONGER NEEDED OR NECESSARY FOR PUBLIC STREET PURPOSES; PROVIDING THAT SUCH ABANDONMENT SHALL BE IN FAVOR OF THE OWNER OF THE ABUTTING PROPERTIES; PROVIDING THAT SUCH ABANDONMENT SHALL BE INSOFAR AS APPLICABLE TO THE PUBLIC RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST IN SUCH ROADWAY FOR STREET PURPOSES ONLY; PROVIDING THAT SUCH ABANDONMENT SHBLL NOT IN ANY WAY AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PUBLIC UTILITY LOCATED IN SUCH ROADWAY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY WHEREAS, a portion of Oak Knolls Drive is no longer needed or necessary for public street purposes; and WHEREAS, the City has concluded that it is the best interest of the citizens and taxpayers of the City of Southlake and promotes the public safety, health, morals and general welfare to abandon a portion of Oak Knolls Drive; and WHEREAS, the City does find that the hereinafter described portion of Oak Knolls Drive is no longer needed for street right-of-way purposes and should be abandoned in order to relieve the City of the obligation and necessity of maintaining same for street purposes. , BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS: Section 1. That all matters stated in the preamble are found to be true and correct, and are incorporated into the body of this Ordinance as if copied in their entirety. Section 2. That the hereinafter described portion of Oak Knolls Drive within the limits of the City of Southlake, Texas, be, and the same is, hereby abandoned as a public street or thoroughfare insofar as the right, title and interest of the public in said street is concerned. That portion of Oak Knolls Drive being abandoned as a public street is described as follows, to-wit: Ail of that lot, tract, and/or parcel of land described in Exhibit "A" which is attached hereto and incorporated herein. Section 3. That the above described portion of Oak Knolls Drive is abandoned in favor of the abutting property owners. Section 4. That the abandonment provided for herein shall extend only to the public right, title and interest in and to the public street hereinafter described and shall be construed to extend only to the interests that the governing body of the City of Southlake may legally and lawfully abandon in said public street or public street purposes only. Section 5. This abandonment Ordinance shall constitute a quitclaim deed in favor of the owners of the abutting properties, and a certified copy of the same may be filed for record in the Deed Records of Tarrant County, Texas, to indicate such abandonment of the street right-of-way for street purposes only. The City Administrator is also authorized to execute quitclaim deeds if requested by abutting owners to future evidence such vacation. Section 6. The fact that a portion of Oak Knolls Drive is no longer needed or necessary for public street purposes, and that said portion of Oak Knolls Drive should be abandoned so that the City will not have the responsibility of maintaining the same as a public street or thoroughfare, creates an urgency and an emergency in the preservation of the public health, safety and welfare, and requires that this Ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage, as the law in such cases provides, and it is accordingly ordained. PASSED by the City Council of the City of Southlake, Texas, on this the 31st day of March, 1987. ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Attorney 00090 M yor, City of South,~e -2- EXHIBIT FIELD NOTES FOR USE IN THE ABANDONMENT OF A PORTION OF OAK KNOLLS DRIVE IN THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TARRANT COUNTY, TE×AS Being a tract of land in the T. Easter Survey, Abstract No. 458, situated approximately 17 miles north 46 degrees east form the Court House in Tarrant County, Texas, and being a portion of Oak Knolls Drive, as it appears upon the plat of OAK KNOLLS LAKE¥IEW ADDITION to the City of Grapevine, and recorded in volume 388-W, page 51 of the Tarrant County Deed Records and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin at the northwest corner of Lot 15 and the northeast corner of Lot 14, Block E in said OAK KNOLLS LAKEVIEW ADDITION, in the southerly line of saio OaK Knolls Drive; THENCE; south 71 degrees 45 minutes 19 seconds east, along the said southerly line of Oak Knolls Drive and the north line of said Lot 15, at 140-8/10 feet, pass an iron pin found for the northeast corner of said Lot 15 and the northwest corner of Lot 16 in said Block E, and continuing in all for a total distance of 204-74/100 feet to an iron pin for corner in the said southerly line of OaK Knolls Drive and the north line of said Lot 16, on a curve to the right with a radius of fifty feet (50'); THENCE; along said southerly line of OaK Knolls Drive and said north line of Lot 16, with said curve to the right, in a southeasterly direction, an arc distance of 21-36/100 feet to an iron pin found for corner in the said southerly line of OaK Knolls Drive and the said north line of Lot 16, a point of on a curve to the left with a radius of fifty feet (50'), the long chore of said curve to the right bears south 50 degrees 47 minutes 31 seconds east, a distance of 21-23/100 feet; THENCE; along said southerly line of Oak Knolls Drive and said north line of Lot 16, with said curve to the left, in a southeasterly direction, an arc distance of 46-7/10 feet to an iron pin for corner at the northeast corner of said Lot 16 in t~e said southerly line of Oak Knolls Drive and the west line of a fifteen feet (15') wide alley, the long chord of said curve to the left bears south 56 degrees 27 minutes 37 seconds east, a distance of 45-02/100 feet; THENCE; south 02 degrees ll minutes 20 seconds east, along the east line of said Lot 16 and t~e west line of said alley, a distance of 74-9/10 feet to an iron pin for corner at the southwest corner of said Lot 16 in the west line of said alley and the southerly line of said OAK KNOLLS LAKE¥IEW ADDITION; THENCE; north 88 degrees 04 minutes 12 seconds east, along the said southerly line of OAK KNOLLS LAKEVIEW ADDITION, a distance of 15 feet to a 1/2" iron pin for corner at the southwest corner of Lot 17 in said Block E, in the east line of said alley; EXHIBIT "A" ABANDONMENT, PAGE TWO THENCE; THENCE; THENCE; THENCE; THENCE; north 02 degrees ll minutes 20 seconds west, along the west line of said Lot 17 and the east line of said alley, a distance of 75-36/100 feet to an iron pin for corner at the most westerly corner of said Lot 17 in the east line of said alley and the said southerly line of Oak Knolls Drive, a. point on a curve to the left with a radius of fifty feet {50'); along the said southerly line of Oak Knolls Drive and the westerly line of said Lot 17, with said curve to the left in a northeasterly direction, at 97-77/100 feet pass a l" iron pin for corner at the northwesterly corner of Lot 17 and the southeast corner of Lot 18 in said Block E, and continuing in all for a total arc distance of 167-48/100 feet to an iron pin for corner in the south line of said Lot 18 and the northerly line of said Oak Knolls Drive on a curve to the right with a radius of fifty feet {50'); along the said south line of Lot 18 and said northerly line of Oak Knolls Drive, with said curve to the right, an arc distance of 21-42/100 feet to an iron pin for corner in in t~e said south line of Lot 18 and the northerly line of Oak Knolls Drive, the long chord of said curve to the right bears south 87 degrees 37 minutes 35 seconds west, a distance of 21-25/1U0 feet; north 71 degrees 40 minutes 45 seconds west, along the said south line of Lot 18 and the said northerly line of Oak Knolls Drive, at 68-14/100 feet, pass an iron pin for the southwest corner of said Lot 15 an~ the southeast corner of Lot 19 in said 8lock E, ~n~ continuing in all for a total distance of 200-216/100 feet to an ~ron pin for corner at the southwest corner of said Lot 19 and the southeast corner of Lot 20 in said Block E in the said northerly line of Oak Knolls Drive; south 22 degrees 23 minutes 55 seconds west, a distance of 60-86/100 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING and being 21,702-064/1000 square feet in area (0-498/1000 of an acre).