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<br />ORDINANCE NO. 1981-87
<br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
<br />r OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, DECLARING THE NECESSITY
<br />OF ACQUIRING A PORTION OF BLOCK TWO (2) OF
<br />THE HOME FARM BLOCKS SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY
<br />OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, SAID PORTION LOCATED AT
<br />THE INTERSECTION OF GUADALUPE STREET AND ROOSEVELT
<br />STREET, FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE; DESCRIBING THE
<br />PROJECT FOR WHICH SAID PROPERTY IS TO BE ACQUIRED;'
<br />DESCRIBING SAID PROPERTY; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
<br />ATTORNEY TO INSTITUTE CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS
<br />AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
<br />WHEREAS, there exists a need to realign the intersection
<br />of Roosevelt Street and Guadalupe Street so that said intersection
<br />will conform with the intersection of Guadalupe Street and Love
<br />Street, said intersections being located within the corporate
<br />limits of the City of San Marcos, Texas; and,
<br />WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of San Marcos, Texas,
<br />hereby finds that said realignment would be of benefit to the
<br />public because the present alignment of said intersections creates
<br />a traffic hazard and said realignment would aid traffic flow
<br />into and out of the Victory Gardens neighborhood; and,
<br />WHEREAS, there exists the need for said city to acquire
<br />additional right-of-way to complete said realignment; and,
<br />WHEREAS, the City of San Marcos, Texas, has, by authority
<br />of Article 1, 517 of the Texas Constitution, Article 3264 et
<br />seq., Texas Revised Civil Statutes, and Section 2.02 of the
<br />Charter of the City of San Marcos, the right of eminent domain
<br />for any municipal or public purpose; and,
<br />WHEREAS, the City believes ownership of a portion of Block
<br />Two (2) of Home Farm Blocks Subdivision, a subdivision located
<br />in the City of San Marcos, Hays County, Texas, and filed of
<br />record in Volume 129, Page 226, Hays County Deed Records, said
<br />portion being that tract of land conveyed to Asencion Cisneros
<br />De Rojo by E.M. Cape by deed dated August 10, 1943, and recorded
<br />in Volume 127, Page 406, Hays County Deed Records, and being
<br />that tract of land conveyed to Asencion Cisneros De Rojo by E.M.
<br />Cape by deed dated January 20, 1944, and recorded in Volume 129,
<br />Page 90, Hays County Deed records, and being more particularly
<br />described by metes and bounds as follows, to-wit:
<br />BEGINNING at an iron pipe set at the Northeast
<br />corner of the said Rojo tract recorded in Volume
<br />127, Page 406, same being the Northeast corner
<br />of the said Block 2, for the Northeast corner of
<br />the tract herein described, and being at the
<br />intersection of the South line of Roosevelt Street
<br />with the West line of Guadalupe Street-State High-
<br />way Loop No. 82, and from which a concrete monument
<br />found, bears, S 07° 37' E, 177.61 feet;
<br />THENCE, leaving the said Roosevelt Street, with the
<br />West line of the said Guadalupe Street-State High-
<br />way Loop No. 82, the East line of the said Block 2,
<br />S 070 37' E, at 0.55 feet passing an iron stake found,
<br />at 25 feet passing the Southeast corner of the said
<br />Rojo tract recorded in Volume 127, Page 406, same
<br />being the Northeast corner of the said Rojo tract re-
<br />corded in Volume 129, Page 90, and continuing on, in
<br />all, 40.00 feet to an iron pipe set at the Southeast
<br />corner of the said Rojo tract recorded in Volume 129,
<br />Page 90, for the Southeast corner of the tract herein
<br />described, same being the Northeast corner of that tract
<br />of land conveyed to Ralph Gonzales by Dionicia G.
<br />Velasquez, et al, by deed dated December 12, 1968, and
<br />recorded in Volume 227, Page 400, Hays County Deed
<br />Records;
<br />THENCE, leaving the said Guadalupe Street-State Highway
<br />Loop No. 82, with the North line of the said Gonzales
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