NOTICE OF INTENT

ON PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF LANDS

TO THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO

 

 

 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, held on the 1st of June, 2011, the following Resolution was adopted:

 

CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO

 

RESOLUTION NO. 29-11

 

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION

GIVING NOTICE THAT A TRACT OF LAND KNOWN AS

 

JR ENCLAVE

 

LOCATED AT 247 ARLINGTON DRIVE

 

CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY 6.80 ACRES

 

WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR ANNEXATION

TO THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO

 

AND EXERCISING LAND USE CONTROL

 

WHEREAS, on the 1st day of June, 2011, the Public Works and Planning Director filed with the City Clerk of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, a request that the City Council of the City of Grand Junction commence proceedings to annex to the City of Grand Junction a certain tract of land in the County of Mesa, State of Colorado, commonly known as the JR Enclave and more particularly described as follows:

 

JR ENCLAVE ANNEXATION

 

A certain parcel of land lying in the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW 1/4 SW 1/4) of Section 30, Township 1 South, Range 1 East of the Ute Principal Meridian, County of Mesa, State of Colorado and being bounded as follows:

 

Bounded on the South and West by the Charlesworth Annexation, City of Grand Junction Ordinance 3902, as same is recorded in Book 4187, Page 71, Public Records of Mesa County, Colorado; Bounded on the North by the Rinderle Annexation, City of Grand Junction Ordinance 3411, as same is recorded in Book 3073, Page 654, Public Records of Mesa County, Colorado and Bounded on the East by the Arrowhead Acres Annexation No. 2, City of Grand Junction Ordinance 3117, as same is recorded in Book 2575, Page 337, Public Records of Mesa County, Colorado.

 

CONTAINING 296,288 Square Feet or 6.80 Acres, more or less, as described.

 

WHEREAS, the area proposed to be annexed is entirely contained within the boundaries of the City of Grand Junction and said area has been so surrounded for a period of not less than three (3) years, pursuant to C.R.S. 31-12-106(1);

 

 

 

 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION:

 

1.  That the City Clerk of the City of Grand Junction is hereby directed to give notice of the City Council’s intent to annex the aforementioned area, pursuant to the Municipal Annexation Act of 1965. The City Clerk is also directed to give notice of the existence of the Annexation Transition Committee, including contact information.

 

2.  That the ordinance annexing the subject area was introduced and given first reading on this 1st day of June, 2011, with a second reading and public hearing on the proposed annexation ordinance to be held on the 18th day of July, 2011, in the City Hall auditorium, located at 250 North 5th Street, City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at 7:00 PM.

 

3.  Pursuant to the State’s Annexation Act, the City Council determines that the City may now, and hereby does, exercise jurisdiction over land use issues in the said territory. Requests for building permits, subdivision approvals and zoning approvals shall, as of this date, be submitted to the Public Works and Planning Department of the City.

 

ADOPTED the 1st day of June, 2011.

 

Attest:

 

 

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                 President of the Council

 

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Deputy City Clerk