Title
Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider/Discuss/Act on a Right-of-Way Abandonment of a Portion of McDonald Street, Located West of McDonald Street and North of Anthony Street, and Accompanying Ordinance
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Direction for Strategic & Economic Growth
MEETING DATE: March 19, 2019
DEPARTMENT: Engineering
CONTACT: Matt Richardson, P.E., Development Engineering Manager
Gary Graham, P.E., Director of Engineering
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
• Staff recommends approval of the proposed right-of-way abandonment.
ITEM SUMMARY:
• Staff received a request to abandon a portion of McDonald Street, located on the west side of McDonald Street and north of Anthony Street.
• The applicant, the Heritage Guild of Collin County, doing business as the Heritage Village at Chestnut Square, is the only adjacent property owner.
• The right-of-way consists of a triangular shaped tract containing approximately 0.033 acres.
• The right-of-way contains underground sanitary sewer facilities.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
• The right-of-way was originally dedicated as an alley by an undated plat for the Shorts Addition from the early 1900’s.
• TxDOT acquired a portion of the alley for the construction of SH 5 in the 1950’s, leaving this triangular remnant of the original alley as City right-of-way.
• TxDOT is not acquiring any additional right-of-way at this location for their planned improvements to SH 5.
• Chestnut Square has had a fence and other improvements within the right-of-way for a number of years.
• An application and supporting documentation for the requested abandonment were submitted on January 9, 2019.
• Public hearing notices were sent to all property owners within 200 feet of the requested abandonment.
• Underground sanitary sewer facilities exist within the right-of-way; a utility easement is proposed to be retained over the entirety of the abandoned right-of-way.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY:
• N/A
BOARD OR COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
• N/A