NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 342

HOUSE BILL 504

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BURLINGTON TO CONVEY CERTAIN LANDS AT A PRIVATE SALE OR EXCHANGE TO BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That the City of Burlington, North Carolina, in the discretion of its governing body, is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, convey, and exchange to or with Burlington Industries, Inc. at a private sale or exchange, any or all of the certain tracts or parcels of land described below, together with all improvements located thereon, upon such terms and conditions as the governing body of the City of Burlington may determine, said tracts or parcels of land adjoining the lands of Race Street, Texas Avenue (formerly Houston Street), an unnamed alley adjoining Race Street, Anthony Street, Loy Street, Anthony Street Extension, Grier K. Bunton, W. P. May and others, Beaumont Avenue, Hanover Road (Piedmont Boulevard), Graham Street, Goldenrod Avenue, Sunset Street, a certain County Road and others, and being substantially described as follows:

TRACT I.

That portion of Race Street lying between a line 10 feet North of the North property line of Anthony Street and the West property line of Houston Street as same is proposed to be relocated, a distance of approximately 1100 feet.

TRACT II.

Being an alleyway 10 feet in width extending from the northern boundary of Race Street in a northwestwardly direction a distance of 200.5 feet to a point at the southeastern corner of Lot No. 135, Block 178, as shown on Alamance County Tax Map No. 43.

TRACT III.

That portion of Houston Street beginning at the North property line of Race Street and extending northwardly 229.43 feet along the West property line of Houston Street and for a distance of 174.21 feet along the eastern property line of Houston Street. (A map showing the proposed relocation of this portion of Houston Street is on file in the Office of the City Engineer and open to public inspection).

TRACT IV.

Being a tract or strip of land adjoining the lands of Anthony Street, Race Street and others, being 6/10 of one foot in width or 3/10 of one foot on either side of a line, beginning at a point North 35 degrees 29 minutes East 15.52 feet from the intersection of the eastern property line of Race Street and the original northern property line of Anthony Street; thence South 82 degrees 35 minutes East 836.70 feet to the new western property line of Loy Street.

TRACT V.

Beginning at a point marked by an existing iron pipe 100 feet South of the center line of the main track of the Southern Railway, said point also being 417.94 feet westerly from the intersection of the West property line of the existing Houston Street and southern edge of the Southern Railway right-of-way as shown on Map Drawing No. 1034, City of Burlington, dated November 4, 1964; thence South 10 degrees 29 minutes West with the West line of Burlington Industries, Inc. property passing through an existing iron pipe at 277.6 feet, continuing on a total distance of 535.4 feet to a point, being the southeast corner of the property and being marked by a rock monument; thence North 85 degrees 16 minutes West 242.8 feet to an existing iron pipe in the eastern margin of an unnamed alleyway, corner with said alleyway; thence North 85 degrees 16 minutes West 23 feet to an existing iron pipe in the western margin of said unnamed alleyway, corner with said alleyway, City of Burlington and Burlington Industries, Inc.; thence South 24 degrees 2 minutes East 33.33 feet to the northeastern corner of Grier K. Bunton, corner with Burlington Industries, Inc,; thence with Bunton's line South 55 degrees 51 minutes West 118.17 feet to a point at the common corner of W. P. Mays, C. K. Bunton, and Grier K. Bunton; thence North 33 degrees 26 minutes West 93.61 feet to a point, northeast corner of W. P. Mays, thence South 56 degrees 33 minutes West 16.4 feet to a point, being a common corner of Linwood P. Smith and W. P. Mays; thence North 20 degrees 49 minutes West 83.22 feet to a new iron pipe in the southern edge of the right-of-way of the proposed Anthony Street Extension in the margin of said 80 foot right-of-way as shown on the City map described above; thence North 71 degrees 15 minutes East 52.24 feet along said right-of-way in a northeasterly direction to a new iron pipe in the southern margin of the proposed Anthony Street right-of-way; thence continuing northeasterly along the southern margin of the proposed Anthony Street Extension 111.81 feet along a curve with a radius of 616.75 feet concave to the northwest to a point, said point being North 66 degrees 04 minutes East 111.70 feet from the last described point; thence northeasterly along said curve 46.30 feet to a point marked by an iron pipe, corner with the said aforementioned unnamed alley in the western margin of said alley, said point being North 58 degrees 44 minutes East 46.30 feet from the last point described; thence northeasterly along said curve 29.95 feet to a point marked by a new iron pipe in the eastern margin of said unnamed alleyway; thence northeasterly along said curve 123.52 feet to a point at a new iron pipe, said point being North 49 degrees 28 minutes East 153.33 feet from the point marked by a new iron pipe in the western margin of an unnamed alleyway, corner with the proposed Anthony Street Extension; thence northeasterly along said curve 100.11 feet to a point, said point being North 37 degrees 40 minutes East 100 feet from the last described point; thence northeasterly along said curve 100.10 feet to a new iron pipe at a point, said point being North 28 degrees 23 minutes East 99.99 feet from the last described point; thence northeasterly along said curve 122.01 feet to a new iron pipe at a point (being 121.90 feet from the last described point, where said curve intersects the southern margin of the Southern Railway right-of-way, said point of intersection being North 18 degrees 3 minutes East from the last point described; thence with said Southern Railway right-of-way in an easterly direction on a curve concave to the South 88.40 feet to a point, said point being South 80 degrees 50 minutes East 88.40 feet from the last mentioned point, being the point of Beginning.

TRACT VI.

That portion of Beaumont Avenue between the southern property line of Graham Street and the center line of the Southern Railway main line right-of-way.

TRACT VII.

That portion of Hanover Road (Piedmont Boulevard) from the former eastern property line of Beaumont Avenue to the eastern property line of an unnamed 10 foot alley at the eastern boundary of the Harden property.

TRACT VIII.

That portion or tract of City land adjoining lands of Beaumont Avenue, Graham Street and other designated Tract I on City of Burlington Engineering Department Map labeled City of Burlington, N. C. Engineering Department Proposed Extension of Graham Street, Drawing No. 508 dated March 28, 1960.

TRACT IX.

That portion of Goldenrod Avenue from the southern property line of Graham Street to the southern property line of Hanover Road (Piedmont Boulevard).

TRACT X.

That portion of an unnamed alleyway from the southern property line of Graham Street to the northern property line of Hanover Road (Piedmont Boulevard), being an alley 10 feet wide.

TRACT XI.

That portion of Sunset Street from the western property line of Beaumont Avenue Extension westwardly 461.7 feet.

TRACT XII.

That portion of a road designated the County Road from Burlington to Graham running along the Southern Railway right-of-way main line track from the corner of the Harden Home property and the Walker property westwardly 768.5 feet to corner with Clarence Walker.

TRACT XIII.

That tract or parcel of land adjoining the lands of Burlington Industries, Inc., the City of Burlington, and the proposed Anthony Street Extension, and being more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a point at an existing iron pipe at the southwestern corner of an unnamed alley, corner of Burlington Industries, Inc. and the City of Burlington as shown on right-of-way map of Anthony Street by W. M. Garrison, Sr. dated March 2, 1965, Drawing No. 1034; thence North 4 degrees 59 minutes East 136.55 feet to a new iron pipe in the southeastern margin of the proposed Anthony Street Extension as shown on the above-described map; thence northeasterly along a curve concave to the northwest 29.95 feet to a point at a new iron pipe in the southeastern margin of the proposed Anthony Street Extension as shown on the above-named map, said curve being a part of Curve "A" as shown on said map; thence South 4 degrees 59 minutes West 155.55 feet to a point at an existing iron pipe; thence North 85 degrees 16 minutes West 23 feet to the point of Beginning.

TRACT XIV.

A certain triangular tract or parcel of land in Burlington Township, Alamance County, North Carolina, adjoining the lands of Elmira Street, Robertson Street, Burlington Industries, Inc., and the City of Burlington, more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a point, said point being at the corner of a mill building, being Burlington Industries, Inc., Mayfair Plant, said beginning point being North 2 degrees 20 minutes East 284.4 feet from a point at an iron pipe 100 feet from the center line of said Southern Railway main line at the intersection of the western property line of Elmira Street and the northern margin of the Southern Railway right-of-way; thence from said point at the corner of the mill building North 87 degrees 40 minutes West 16 feet to a point; thence 321 feet in a northerly direction with Burlington Industries, Inc. line to a point, corner with Burlington Industries, Inc.; thence from said point in a southerly direction along and near the paving on the western side of Elmira Street, as constructed, 321.40 feet, more or less, to the point of Beginning at the corner of the mill building.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of April, 1965.