STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Transportation & Infrastructure
AGENDA DATE: November 9, 2022
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):|910|DEPARTMENT: Department of Transportation
EXECUTIVE: Dr. Robert Perez
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SUBJECT
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A public hearing to receive comments to amend the City of Dallas Central Business District Streets and Vehicular Circulation Plan to change the right-of-way and pavement width on Park Avenue between Young Street and Marilla Street from 50 feet of right-of-way and 25 feet of pavement to 48 feet of right-of-way and 26 feet of pavement; and, at the close of the hearing, authorize an ordinance implementing the change - Financing: No cost consideration to the City
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BACKGROUND
First Presbyterian Church of Dallas has requested an amendment to the City of Dallas Central Business District Streets and Vehicular Circulation Plan to change the right-of-way on Park Avenue between Young Street and Marilla Street from 50 feet of right-of-way to 48 feet of right-of-way. The proposed reduction in the right-of-way would be on the east side of the roadway, adjacent to the 508 Park Avenue building.
Park Avenue was dedicated by plat on March 16, 1887, with 50-feet of right-of-way. Warner Bros. constructed the 508 Park Avenue building in 1929 with approximately 0.4 feet to 1.1 feet of the building in the Park Avenue right-of-way. The Church purchased the building in 2011 and began the platting process. The City of Dallas City Plan Commission approved the final plat on November 1, 2012, pending the abandonment of 1.1 feet in the right-of-way and release from the Real Estate division. In 2015, the Church constructed an amphitheater connecting to the 508 Park Avenue building. To obtain a Certificate of Occupancy for the amphitheater, the Church must amend the Central Business District Streets and Vehicular Circulation Plan to abandon the 1.1 feet of right-of-way under the 508 Park Avenue building for their final plat to ...
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