File #: ORD-15:067    Version: 1 Name: Abandonment of a utility easement on Southwest Drive
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 12/8/2015 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 12/15/2015
Title: ORDINANCE TO VACATE AND ABANDON A TEN (10’) WIDE UTILITY EASEMENT AS REQUESTED BY DAVID & BELINDA CHAPMAN
Indexes: Abandonment
Attachments: 1. Plat, 2. Reason for emergency clause, 3. Utility Letters, 4. Engineering and Planning Letter, 5. Petition
Related files: RES-15:167, ABAN-346

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ORDINANCE TO VACATE AND ABANDON A TEN (10’) WIDE UTILITY EASEMENT AS REQUESTED BY DAVID & BELINDA CHAPMAN

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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, that:

 

SECTION 1:  The City of Jonesboro Arkansas hereby releases, vacates and abandons all its rights together with the rights of the public generally, in and to the UTILITY easement designated as follows:

 

LEGAL DESCRIPTION:

 

The five (5’) Utility Easement lying on the south property line of Lot 23 and five (5’) Utility Easement lying on the north property line of Lot 11, Block “A” of Benton’s Subdivision Extended, Jonesboro, Arkansas, as shown recorded in Plat Book 179, Page 16 in the Circuit Clerk’s office of Craighead County, Jonesboro, Arkansas

 

SECTION 2:  A copy of the ordinance certified by the City Clerk shall be filed in the office of the Recorder of Craighead County, Arkansas and shall be filed in the Deed Records of such office.

 

SECTION 3:  The City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, finds and declares that the above utility easement is not necessary for the general benefit and welfare of the public; that the owner of all the property abutting the above utility easement is in favor of the closure and vacation of the above utility easement and that therefore, an emergency is declared to exist and this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

 

PASSED AND ADOPTED this 15th day of December, 2015.