N0. 10891 ORDER REQUESTING TEXAS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT TO RECONSTRUCT QUINLAN CREEK BRIDGE
AND APPROACHES ON F. M. ROAD 1341
On this the 10th day of March, 1969, came on to be heard and considered by the Court
the matter of reconstruction of the present low water crossing of Quinlan Creek on F. M.
Road 1341 near the city limits of the City of Kerrville; and it appearing to the Court that
the population influx which has occurred in recent years in the proximity of the aforesaid
narrow low water bridge has increased the volume of traffic on the said bridge and its
approaches far beyond the safe and reasonable capabilities of the section of roadway con-
cerned; and it Further appearing that during times of severe rainfall, the present grade
level of F. M. Road 1341 in the area creates problems of residential flooding in adjacent
areas and that the flooding of Quinlan Creek renders the existing bridge impassable and
thereby severely restricts the ingress and egress to the homes of the residents of the
adjacent portions of the City of Kerrville, it is ordered on motion by Commissioner Bartel,
seconded by Commissioner Burney and unanimously approved by the Court that Kerr County,
acting by and through its Commissioners Court, hereby requests the `T'exas Highway Department
to reconstruct the existing bridge crossing Quinlan Creek on F. M. Road 1341 and to also ,,.,
reconstruct the approaches thereto commencing at the city limits of the City of Kerrville
and running east a total distance of approximately 0.40 miles and that Kerr County hereby
agrees to furnish without delay all necessary right-of-way for this project at no cost
to the State of Texas and it is hereby certified that the necessary funds for such right-
of-way procurement are currently available for expenditure and are not otherwise encumber-
ed.
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N0. 10892 ORDER REQUESTING TEXAS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT TO RECONSTRUCT AND IMPROVE CURVES ON
PORTIONS OF STATE HIGHWAY 16 SOUTH OF KERRVILLE
On this the 10th day of March, 1969, came on to be heard and considered by the Court
the matter of the reconstruction and improvement of certain dangerous curves on State
Highway 16 south of the Clty of Kerrville commencing in the proximity of Camp Meeting
Creek and running south a distance of approximately 6.5 miles to the proximity of the
intersection of F. M. Road 1273 with State Highway 16; and it appearing to the Court that
when this section of State Highway 16 was reconstructed in the year 1941 along the close
proximity of the then existing alignment there resulted a roadway consisting of relatively
straight sections interspersed with sharp and dangerous curves constructed on limited right-
of-way which curves have repeatedly caused danger and accidents due to the inability of
the traveling public to cope with unexpected sharp curves encountered on this section of
roadway; and it further appearing to the Court that due to the influx of population and the
development of private and denominational summer camps in the area served by F. M. Road
1273 and State Highway 16, certain dangerous curves in the aforesaid section of roadway
should be reconstructed so as to increase the overall safety of this section of State High-
way 16; it is therefore ordered on motion by Commissioner Schwethelm, seconded by Commis-
sioner Bartel and unanimously approved by the Court that Kerr County, acting by and through
its Commissioners Court, hereby requests the Texas Highway Department to reconstruct and
improve the existing dangerous curves in the section of State Highway 16 from the proximity
of Camp Meeting Creek to a point approximately 6.5 miles south and in the proximity of
the intersection of F. M. Road 1273 with said Highway 16 and that Kerr County hereby offers
to furnish without delay such additional right-of-way as might be required by the Texas
Highway Department for this proposal and to do so at no cost to the State of Texas, and it
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is hereby certified that the necessary finances for such right-of-way procurement are
currently available for expenditure and are not otherwise encumbered.
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THE STA'1'E OF TEXAS ~
COUNTY OF KERB ~
PETITION FOR DISCONTINUANCE OF COUNTY ROAD
TO THE HONORABLE COMMISSIONERS COURT OF KERR COUNTY, TEXAS:
COME NOW, Lavern D. Harris and wife, Faye C. Harris, and Harriet L.Sheppard and
husband, Marshall L. Sheppard, Sr., all of the County of Kerr, State of Texas, and respect-
fully file this their application and petition, pursuant to the provisions of Art. 6705
V.'I'.C.S., signed by at least eight (8) freeholders in the precinct in which the hereinafter
mentioned road is located, to discontinue the public road more fully hereinafter described,
including specifically a description of the beginning and termination of such road, after
the expiration of at least twenty (20) days notice by written advertisement of applicants
... intended application, posted at the courthouse door of Kerr County, Texas, and at two other
public places in the vicinity of the route of such road, and for such application and
petition your applicants would respectfully show to the Commissioners Court of Kerr County,
Texas, that they are the owners of all of the property on both sides and at the end of the
hereinafter described public road; that such public road has never been improved nor main-
tained by the county nor has it ever been opened or used by the public, and that there is
no public necessity that such road, though dedicated to the public, ever be or used as a
public road, but on the contrary the same should be closed and discontinued.
The public road which your applicants desire to be discontinued and closed is more
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''fully described as follows, to-wit:
All that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of
Kerr, State of Texas, comprising 1.673 acres of land out of Original Survey No. 1474, H.
E. & W.'1'.R.R. Co., Certificate 4Io. 774, L. A. Rees, Grantee, Abstract No. 1844, being a
strip of land 50 feet wide lying 25 feet each side of the centerline which is described
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as follows, to-wit:
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BEGINNING at a point in the South right-of-way line of that 60 foot wide right-of-way
easement which was conveyed by Harriet Lucy Sheppard, et vir, to Kerr County, Texas, for
a county road, and described as County Road Right-of-Way Tract No. 1, in Right-of-Way Ease-
ment dated June 8, 1964, recorded in Volume 4, page 33, of the Easement Records of Kerr
County, Texas, which said paint is located 30.2 feet S. 12° 12' E. from the point of inter-
section of the extension of the centerline of this right-of-way with the centerline of the
said right-of-way of said County Road Right-of-Way Tract No. 1, which said intersection
point is referred to in the description given for said County Road Right-of-Way 't'ract No. 1,
and is 49.3 feet N. 84° 22' E. from the P. C. of a 10° curve in said County Road Right-of-
Way Tract No. 1;
THENCE S. 12° 12' E. 313.9 feet to the P. C. of a circular curve to the left;
THENCE along the arc of the said circular curve, having a radius of 573.0 feet and
,.-. central angle of 43° 00' for a distance of 430.0 feet to the P. T. of the curve;
THENCE S. 55° 12' E. 713.7 feet to an iron stake in the S. E. line of the Sheppard
land as fenced, the same being the 270.0 acre portion of the Original D. A. Rees Estate
property which was conveyed to Harriet Lucy Sheppard by deed dated February 1, 1951, and
recorded in Volume 90, at page 118, of the Deed Records of Kerr County Texaa_ ha;nn a u_w_