ORDINANCE NO. 980862

Approving the plat of Townsend Circle - Third Plat, an addition in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri; accepting various easements; establishing grades on public ways; accepting certain lands for park purposes forever, in accordance with Section 58 of Article III of the Charter of Kansas City.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the plat of Townsend Circle - Third Plat, a subdivision in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri, a true and correct copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference is hereby approved.

Section 2. That the plat granting and reserving unto Kansas City an easement and license or right to locate, construct, operate and maintain facilities including, but not limited to, water, gas, sewerage, telephone, cable TV, surface drainage, underground conduits, pad mounted transformers, service pedestals, any and all of them upon, over, under and along the strips of land outlined and designated on the plat by the words utility easement or U/E be and the same are hereby accepted and where other easements are outlined and designated on the plat for a particular purpose, be and the same are hereby accepted for the purpose as therein set out.

Section 3. That the grades of the streets and other public ways set out on the plat, herein accepted, are hereby established at the top of curb, locating and defining the grade points which shall be connected by true planes or vertical curbs between such adjacent grade points, the elevations of which are therein given, in feet above the City Directrix.

Section 4. That the lands heretofore designated and selected by the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners as evidenced by their Resolution No. 24356 duly adopted on June 23, 1998, for public use for park purposes, to-wit:

A tract of land being part of the NW 1/4 of Section 21-T51-R33, Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri, described as follows: Commencing at northwest corner of said Section 12; thence South 0025'47" West, along the west line of said NW 1/4, 100.00 feet to the southwest corner of a tract of land described in a document recorded in Book 458 at page 174 in the Recorders Office of said Platte County; thence South 8905'31" East, parallel with the north line of said NW 1/4 and along the southerly line of said tract, 70.00 feet; thence South 5235'25" East, continuing along said line, 249.45 feet (Deed = 260.00); thence South 6805'31" East, continuing along said line and the southerly line of a tract of land described in a document recorded in Book 838 at page 734 in the Recorders Office of said Platte County, 790.20 feet to the point of beginning of the tract to be described herein; thence South 0107'05" East, 642.11 feet to the northeast corner of Century 37 Apartments, a subdivision in said Kansas City; thence South 8848'44" West, along the northerly line of said Century 37 Apartments, 46.85 feet; thence northwesterly, continuing along said line, on a curve to the right having a radius of 250.13 feet, and tangent to the last described course, an arc distance of 175.89 feet; thence North 3219'16" East, 279.98 feet; thence North 1348'19" East, 164.16 feet; thence North 1310'19" West, 220.00 feet to the southerly line of the tract recorded in said Book 838 at page 734; thence South 6805'31" East, along said line, 62.98 feet to the point of beginning.

Containing 1.1968 acres, more or less be and the same is hereby accepted for public use for park purposes and shall remain such forever in accordance with Section 58 of Article III of the Charter of Kansas City.

Section 5. That the Council finds that the City Plan Commission has duly endorsed its approval of this Ordinance hereon.

Recommended for approval this ____ day of _____________, 1998.

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George E. Wolf, Jr., P.E.

Director of Public Works

Approved as to form and legality:

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Assistant City Attorney