CONSIDER RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE TARRANT REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT TO ACQUIRE FEE SIMPLE TITLE TO THE SURFACE ESTATE ONLY,
INCLUDING IMPROVEMENTS LOCATED THEREON, OF APPROXIMATELY 2.955 ACRES OF LAND BEING LOTS 1 AND 2, AND THE NORTH 85 FEET OF LOT 3, BLOCK 252, NORTH FORT WORTH ADDITION, TO THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED IN VOLUME 204-A, PAGE 117, PLAT RECORDS, TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS (P.R.T.C.T.),
AND FURTHER BEING A TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN A DEED TO J.R. STEVENS, SR. AND J.R. STEVENS, JR., RECORDED IN VOLUME 12584, PAGE 1468, DEED RECORDS, TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS (D.R.T.C.T.); TOGETHER WITH THE SOUTH 30 FEET OF A TRACT MARKED “RESERVED” WHICH LIES BETWEEN BLOCKS 251 AND 252 ON SAID PLAT,
BY EMINENT DOMAIN OR BY PURCHASE, FOR THE TRINITY RIVER VISION PROJECT – STEVE CHRISTIAN (TRVA, REAL PROPERTY DIRECTOR)
Eminent domain should only be exercised as a last resort to acquire necessary properties ---either via fee-simple (buying the land outright) or via a right-of-way use---driven by "public necessity" and strictly for a "public use" (per the amendment to the Texas Constitution last year) . It appears that so much eminent domain abuses by government and profit-driven entities have "watered down" this powerful state authority to serve the "common good".
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