R83-24 09-12-83 RESOLUTION NO. R83-24
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS, PROVIDING FOR THE
GIVING OF NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD CONCERNING THE
PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN TERRITORY NOW LYING WITHIN THE
EXTRA-TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF THE CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Pearland, Texas,
has heretofore determined that it would be in the public's interest
that certain territory presently lying within Pearland's extra-
territorial jurisdiction and subject to annexation by the City be
included within the City Limits of Pearland, Texas, and subject to
the ordinances and jurisdiction of the City in all respects; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Pearland, Texas,
has further determined that the territory subject to this proposed
annexation is adjacent and contiguous to Pearland's existing City
Limits; that said territory is not within the City Limits of any
other City and that said territory lies solely within Pearland's
extra-territorial jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, prior to the publication of the notices hereinafter
provided, the City Council has heretofore directed the City's
planning department to prepare a service plan that provides for
the extention of municipal services to the area to be annexed in
keeping with the service requirements of Section l0 B(1) of
Article 970a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes; which service plan
shall be made available for inspection by all interested inhabi-
tants of the area to be annexed at the public hearings hereinafter
provided; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Pearland, Texas,
desires and deems it necessary to institute annexation proceedings
relating to said territory.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS:
That the facts and recitations contained in the preamble of
this Resolution are hereby found and declared to be true and
correct.
Il.
That the City Secretary is hereby directed to publish the
following notice to the Journal, the same being the official
newspaper in and for the City of Pearland and a newspaper having
general circulation in the City and in the territory proposed to
be annexed. Said notice to read and be given as follows:
NOTICE OF HEARINGS ON INTENTION TO ANNEX CERTAIN TERRITORY
TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES:
Notice is hereby given that the City of Pearland, Texas,
intends to annex the following described property adjacent
to the present City Limits of the City of Pearland, Texas,
said tract of land to be annexed being described by metes
and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a concrete monument in the south line of
the existing City Limits and the west right of way line
of the G.C. & S.F. Railroad;
THENCE East along the existing south City Limits line,
a distance of 11,973.95 feet to a concrete monument in
the southeast line of the W.D.C. Hall League, Abstract
70, Brazoria County, Texas, said monument also being in
the northwest right of way line of County Road 963
(Buckholt Lane);
THENCE S 44° 26' 2]" W, along the southeast line of
said W.D.C. Hall League, Abstract 70 and the G.C. Smith
Survey, Abstract 551, Brazoria County, Texas, a distance
of 5,441.12 feet to a point for corner, said point also
being in the northwest line of the W.H. Snyder Survey,
Abstract 370, Brazoria County, Texas;
THENCE S 89° 19' 37" W, a distance of 7,190.27 feet to
a point in the west right of way line of the G.C. &
S.F. Railroad;
THENCE N 13° 47' 40" W, along the west right of way
line of the G.C. & S.F. Railroad, a distance of 4,087.27
feet to the PLACE OF BEGINNING and containing 862.4802
acres of land, more or less.
GENERAL PUBLIC HEARING
A PuBlic Hearing will be held in the Council Chambers
of the City Hall in the City of Pearland at 2335 North
Texas Avenue, Pearland, Texas, at 7:30 p.m. on the 10
day of October , 1983, at which time opportunity will
be provided for all interested persons to be heard concerning
the proposed annexation, and opportunity to review and
inspect the municipal service plan proposed for the area to
be annexed.
PUBLIC HEARING WITHIN AREA TO BE ANNEXED
A Public Hearing will be held in the area proposed to
be annexed if, within ten (10) days after the publication
of this notice, more than twenty (20) adult residents who
reside in the territory proposed to be annexed protest in
writing to the City Secretary of the City of Pearland,
Texas, and ask for a public hearing within such proposed
territory to be annexed. Each written protest shall contain
the name, address, and age of each protestor signing.
I, DOROTHY COOK, the City Secretary of the City of
Pearland, Texas, do hereby publish this notice in accordance
with the directions of the Pearland City Council.
WITNESS MY HAND officially this day of ,
1983.
DOROTHY COOK, City Secretary
III.
That the City Secretary shall publish said notices at least
once in said newspaper not more than twenty (20) days nor less
than ten (10) days prior to the hearing as set out in said notice.
In addition to the published notice, the City Secretary shall
give notice by Certified Mail to any Railroad Company or Companies
serving the City and on the City's Tax Roll when their right-of-way
is included in the territory to be annexed.
IV.
That this Resolution shall take effect from and after its
Reading, Passage and Approval.
PASSED AND APPROVED this /~ day of ~ 1983.
CITY OF PE, AR~LA~EXAS
TOM REID, Mayor
ATTEST:
OOK~ty S~cretary