Resolution 2022-12RESOLUTION NO. 2022-12
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS AUTHORIZING
INITIATION OF CONDEMNATION PROCEEDING TO ACQUIRE A PERMANENT UTILITY
EASEMENT FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF A SANITARY SEWER TRUNK LINE UPON CERTAIN
PROPERTY SITUATED IN WALKER COUNTY, TEXAS.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WALKER
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WHEREAS The Huntsville City Council desires to promote the health, safety and welfare of its citizens and provide utility service; and
WHEREAS The City of Huntsville maintains a sanitary sewer main across the easement property. The line was installed approximately 40 years ago and is in poor condition.
WHEREAS Due to increased residential and commercial development the line is reaching its load capacity. The line must be replaced with a larger one to provide for future development. This will require a wider easement for installation and maintenance of the replacement line.
WHEREAS Council has determined need to provide adequate wastewater services to promote growth and maintain sanitary conditions is in the public's best interest.
WHEREAS A certified Appraisal of the easement property has been made and an initial offer has been made to the Owner.
WHEREAS The Texas Government Code requires that before a governmental entity such as the City can initiate a condemnation proceeding by filing a petition the City must authorize the proceeding at a public meeting by a record vote.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS that:
�. IO� 11: The City Council has authorized, by public vote, at its regular public council meeting on�11. / , 2022, the use of the power of eminent domain to acquire: (I) an easement property being a strip of land, forty (40) feet in width, containing 1.881 acres of land, more or less, situated in the JESSE PARKER
LEAGUE, Abstract No. 36, Walker County, Texas, and being out of and upon TR.-I 92.96 AC. according to a Plat
of Calvin M. Ellisor Property Tracts 1 & 2 recorded in Volume 4, page 4, Plat Records of Walker County, Texas,
said Tract 1 (92.96 acres) conveyed in a Deed from Calvin M. Ellisor and wife, Irene Ellisor to Jerry Ellisor and
Byron Ellisor, dated February 15, 2007, recorded in Volume 794, page 462, Official Public Records of Walker County, Texas, more particularly described by metes and bounds in Exhibit "A" and shown on a Plat in Exhibit
"B", attached hereto and incorporated herein for all purposes.
The current need and purpose of the easement is for the replacement of an old sanitary sewer line in poor condition
with a new sanitary sewer line to provide service to current customers and to provide for future development.