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I I I : HENRY G. KYLE ALEERT lo-,f. WALKER H.G. KYLE, ill KYLE,WALKER AND KYLE ATTORNEYS AT LAw EAsT SIDE OF SQUA.:RE SAN MARGOS f TEXAS February 6, 1968 Mr. Richard Bean City Manager City Hall San Marcos, Texas 78666 Re: Housing Authority Option Dear Mr. Bean: The Housing Authority of the City of San Marcos has secured an option from Doyle S. Peters, Trustee, to purchase 20 acres, more or less, of land. The Authority thought the option covered all three tracts of 2.00, 18.13 and 0.75 acres out of the J. M. Veramendi Survey No. Two which are set out in the plat I gave you prepared by Forrest Scott. As you know, the Authority has received final approval for the project. In examining the title to the three tracts it was recently dis- covered that Doyle S. Peters, Trustee, does not own the 0.75 acre tract but that the City of San Marcos does. Somehow, there was a serious misunderstanding. In December of 1966, James Tuttle bought the 23.3 acre tract shown by the Scott plat. In May and June of 1967, he conveyed 4.11 acres out of the northeast corner thereof to Mrs. E. C. Frisbie. On October 16, 1967, he conveyed the 18.13 acre tract to Doyle S. Peters, Trustee, and the 0.75 acre tract to the City of San Marcos for street purposes for the use of the Peters and Frisbie tracts. The latter conveyance was a gift to provide Tuttle's grantees with access to Loop 82. Tuttle had previously secured permission from Dr. James McCrocklin on behalf of S.W.T. S.C. for the City to use a 44 foot strip belonging to the College between the 0.75 acre tract and Loop 82 in return for the convey- ance by Tuttle to S.W.T.S.C. of 9 feet along the northwest side of his 23.3 acre tract. The Housing Authority incorporated said 0.75 acre tract into its plans, but specifically noted the importance of not allowing the tract to be used for street purposes so as to permit traffic to pass through the development between Loop 82 and Thorp Lane. The Housing Authority's plans have been approved all the way up to Washington D.C. So you can see that the Authority must either acquire the 0.75 acre tract, or a substantial part of it, or amend and resubmit its plan, which would necessitate a delay of three ot four months and possibly jeopardiZe approval of the development. V [I \, '~ ::; i '} I