File #: ORD-15:045    Version: 1 Name: Abandonment for property located east of Highway 351, south of Macedonia Road
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/11/2015 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 9/1/2015
Title: ORDINANCE TO VACATE AND ABANDON AN UNIMPROVED TWENTY (20') FEET TO TWENTY FIVE (25’) FEET WIDE DRAINAGE EASEMENT
Indexes: Abandonment, Public hearing
Attachments: 1. Plat, 2. Utility Letters, 3. Petition, 4. Engineering & Planning Dept. Letter
Related files: RES-15:124, ABAN-342

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ORDINANCE TO VACATE AND ABANDON AN UNIMPROVED TWENTY (20') FEET TO TWENTY FIVE (25’) FEET WIDE DRAINAGE EASEMENT

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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 drainage easement designated as follows:

 

The west twenty feet to twenty five feet of the existing drainage easement lying parallel and adjacent to the east property line of Lot 1 of the Village at Sage Meadows Phase II Minor Plat, Jonesboro, Craighead County, 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 drainage 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 drainage 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 1st day of September, 2015.