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Resolution for potential use of eminent domain to acquire property rights for Mary Rhodes Pipeline Phase II Project; authorizing the City Manager or his designee to execute documents necessary for acquiring the property interests
Resolution of the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas (1) determining the public necessity and public use for the acquisition of parcels of land by fee simple title to the surface estate and by waterline easements for a water line pipeline project known as the Mary Rhodes Pipeline Phase 2, which is to be generally located along the route from Bay City, Texas to Lake Texana described as follows:
From a point which begins on the west bank of the Colorado River in Matagorda County, Texas just north of the State Highway 35 bridge and runs approximately 41 miles to the City's pump station adjacent to the Palmetto Bend Dam on Lake Texana located in Jackson County, Texas; said pipeline further described as follows: leaving the Colorado River, the alignment will parallel State Highway 35 in a southwesterly direction through Matagorda County for approximately 13 miles until just east of Blessing, Texas, where the alignment will break more westerly to follow the Union Pacific Railroad easement on the north side of Blessing, Texas for approximately 2.5 miles west of Blessing and continuing in a southwesterly direction for approximately 5 miles; the alignment will parallel FM 616 and continue through Matagorda County to the Jackson County line where it will continue parallel to FM 616 in Jackson County through Francitas, Texas for approximately 9 miles until just east of La Ward, Texas where the alignment will turn northwesterly to circumnavigate La Ward for approximately 1.5 miles; the alignment will then parallel SH172 in a northerly direction out of La Ward for approximately 2 miles where it will turn westerly following FM 3131 approximately 8 miles to the west delivery system on the west bank of the Navidad river in Jackson County; (2) authorizing the City Manager or his designee to negotiate and execute all documents necessary to acquire the property interests subject to availability of funds appropriated for such purposes; (3) authorizing the City Manager to institute condemnation by eminent domain proceedings to acquire the fee simple and easement interests in the properties; (4) authorizing payment pursuant to an award by Special Commissioners; (5) authorizing acceptance and recording of appropriate legal instruments; and (6) approving condemnation for all units of property to be acquired by condemnation within the water line route described herein by a single record vote of the City Council.