CLOSING OF STREETS
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case City of Grapevine v. Grapevine Pool Road Joint Venture (1991)
Most recently applied in Millwee-Jackson Joint Venture v. Dallas Area Rapid Transit (October 2011)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
An injunction may not be granted to stay or prevent the governing body of an incorporated city from vacating, abandoning, or closing a street or alley except on the suit of a person:
(1) who is the owner or lessee of real property abutting the part of the street or alley vacated, abandoned, or closed; and
(2) whose damages have neither been ascertained and paid in a condemnation suit by the city nor released.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.