CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO

ORDINANCE NO. 4168

AN ORDINANCE ZONING THE SIPES ANNEXATION TO

R-8 (RESIDENTIAL 8-DU/AC)

LOCATED AT 416 1/2 30 ROAD, 413, 415 30 1/4 ROAD

Recitals:

 After public notice and public hearing as required by the Grand Junction Zoning and Development Code, the Grand Junction Planning Commission recommended approval of zoning the Sipes Annexation to the R-8 (Residential 8-du/ac) zone district finding that it conforms with the recommended land use category as shown on the future land use map of the Growth Plan and the Growth Plan’s goals and policies and is generally compatible with land uses located in the surrounding area. The zone district meets the criteria found in Section 2.6 of the Zoning and Development Code.

 After public notice and public hearing before the Grand Junction City Council, City Council finds that the R-8 (Residential 8-du/ac) zone district is in conformance with the stated criteria of Section 2.6 of the Grand Junction Zoning and Development Code.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION THAT:

The following property be zoned R-8 (Residential 8-du/ac).

SIPES ANNEXATION

A certain parcel of land lying in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4 SW 1/4) of Section 16, Township 1 South, Range 1 East of the Ute Principal Meridian, County of Mesa, State of Colorado and being more particularly described as follows:

BEGINNING at the Southeast corner of the plat of Ironwood, as same is recorded in Plat Book 12, Page 454, Public Records of Mesa County, Colorado and assuming the East line of the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 of said Section 16 bears S 00°02’08” W with all other bearings shown hereon being relative thereto; thence from said Point of Beginning, N 89°55’08” E along the Easterly extension of the South line of said Ironwood, a distance of 33.00 feet to a point on the East line of the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 of said Section 16; thence S 00°02’ 08” W along the East line of the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 of said Section 16, also being the West line of Humphrey Annexation No. 2, City Ordinance No. 4003, a distance of 178.20 feet; thence N 89°57’52” W a distance of 218.00 feet; thence S 00°02’08” W a distance of 200.00 feet; thence S 89°55’08” W a distance of 49.59 feet, more or less, to the centerline of the Grand Valley Canal; thence along said centerline the following four (4) courses:

N 41°58’56” W a distance of 59.40 feet to the beginning of a 556.27 foot radius curve, concave Southwest, whose long chord bears N 58°13’06” W with a long chord length of 243.96 feet; thence

245.96 feet Northwesterly along the arc of said curve, through a central angle of 25°20’01”; thence

N 72°27’39” W a distance of 114.93 feet; thence

N 75°39’07” W a distance of 52.54 feet; thence

N 00°03’08” E along a portion of the East line of Autumn Glenn II Annexation, City Ordinance No. 3877, a distance of 156.88 feet; thence N 89°55’08” E along the South line o f said Ironwood subdivision plat, a distance of 642.28 feet, more or less, to the Point of Beginning.

CONTAINING 3.54 Acres or 154,158 Square Feet, more or less, as described.

INTRODUCED on first reading this 2nd day of January, 2008 and ordered published.

ADOPTED on second reading this 16^th day of January, 2008.

ATTEST:

             /s/: James J. Doody

             President of the Council

/s/: Stephanie Tuin

City Clerk