Resolution No. 2022-18RESOLUTION NO. 2022-18
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS AUTHORIZING
INITIATION OF CONDEMNATION PROCEEDING TO ACQUIRE TWO TEMPORARY
CONSTRUCTION EASEMENTS, EACH TWENTY (20) FEET IN WIDTH LYING ON BOTH SIDES OF AND ADJACENT TO PERMANENT EASEMENT PROPERTY SEGMENT ONE AND SEGMENT TWO PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED TO BE CONDEMNED BY RESOLUTION 2022-010 FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF A SANITARY SEWER TRUNK LINE UPON CERTAIN PROPERTY SITUATED
IN WALKER COUNTY, TEXAS.
THE ST A TE 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.
WHEREAS The Huntsville City Council previously adopted Resolution 2022-10 on March l, 2022, to authorize the initiation of condemnation proceedings to acquire permanent utility easements.
WHEREAS The City now wishes to initiate condemnation proceedings to acquire the temporary construction easements.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE,
TEXAS that:
SECTION I: The City Council has authorized, by public vote, at its regular public council meeting on
May 17, 2022, the use of the power of eminent domain to acquire: two temporary construction easements, each twenty
(20)feet in width, lying on both sides and adjacent to the permanent easement property, Segment One and Segment Twopreviously authorized to be condemned, said Segments being a strip of land, forty (40) feet in width, containing 3.523acres of land, more or less, situated in the JESSE PARKER LEAGUE, Abstract No. 36 and the WILEY PARKERLEAGUE, Abstract No. 37, Walker County, Texas, and being out of and upon a called488.63 acre tract described ina Deed from Dorothy Thomason Family Partnership, LTD. to Edwin E. Thomason and wife, Sandy S. Thomason,
dated June 2, 2006, recorded in Volume 753, page 201, Official Public Records of Walker County, Texas. 2) being
a strip of land, twenty (20) feet in width, containing 0.778 acre ofland, more or less, situated in the JESSE PARKER
LEAGUE, Abstract No. 36 and the WILEY PARKER LEAGUE, Abstract No. 37, Walker County, Texas, and being
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