File #: ORD-14:042    Version: 1 Name: Abandonment of utility easements located south of Spring Valley Drive
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/18/2014 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 7/1/2014
Title: ORDINANCE TO VACATE AND ABANDON AN UNIMPROVED TWENTY FEET (20’) WIDE & A TEN (10’) FEET WIDE UTILITY EASEMENT
Indexes: Abandonment
Attachments: 1. Abandonment Plats, 2. Petition, 3. Utility Response Letters, 4. Planning & Engineering Letter
Related files: RES-14:085, ABAN-335
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ORDINANCE TO VACATE AND ABANDON AN UNIMPROVED TWENTY FEET (20’) WIDE & A TEN (10’) FEET WIDE UTILITY 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 UTILITY easement designated as follows:

LEGAL DESCRIPTION:

A twenty (20’) feet utility easement across lots 2 & 3 and a ten (10’) feet utility easement along and parallel to the east property line of lot 3, of the DG Brookland, LLC Replat of Lots 3, 4, & 7 of Spring Valley Subdivision in the City of Jonesboro, recorded in the Circuit Clerk’s office of Craighead County, Book ‘C’ Page 247 in the Craighead County Courthouse located in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

A ten (10’) feet utility easement along and parallel to the west and the north property lines of lot 2 of Replat of Part of Spring Valley Subdivision in the City of Jonesboro, recorded in the Circuit Clerk’s office of Craighead County, Book ‘A’ Page 25 in the Craighead County Courthouse located in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

A ten (10’) feet utility easement along and parallel to the west, and the south property lines of lot 8 of Replat of Part of Spring Valley Subdivision in the City of Jonesboro, recorded in the Circuit Clerk’s office of Craighead County, Book ‘A’ Page 25 in the Craighead County Courthouse located in 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 therefo...

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