The public will take notice that the Town Council of the Town of Elizabethtown has called a public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on April 19, 2021 (Virtual Meeting) on the question of annexing the following described territory, requested by petition pursuant to NCGS 160A-31 and Resolution
of Intent to annex Town-owned properties: ANNEXATION AREA – 911 Airport Road
All that certain lot or parcel of land lying and being in Elizabethtown Township, Bladen County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a stake in the center of N.C. Road Number 1704, a corner of the lands of Marion Townsend, and runs with the Townsend lands and the center of a Private Soil Road North 41 degrees 45 minutes East 249.75 feet to a stake, a corner of the lands of James M. Russ; thence with the Russ lands South 32 degrees 14 minutes East 218.50 feet to a stake; thence with the Russ lands South 41 degrees 45 minutes West 249.75 feet to a stake in the center of said N.C.
Road Number 1704; thence with the center of said Road North 32 degrees 14 minutes West 218.50 feet to the beginning, containing 1 acre, more or less. Being the same lands described in a Deed dated the 29 th day of January, 1968, from James M. Russ and his wife, Mary Evelyn Russ, to Robert L. Absher and his wife, Sylvia C. Absher, and of record in Book 175, at Page 550, Registry of Bladen County. Also see plat of record in Book
175, at Page 551, Registry of Bladen County.
SUBJECT to right-of-way easement of record in Book 138, at Page 961, Registry of Bladen County. PIN #1320-00-89-0455
ANNEXATION AREA 1A: 5.92 Acres – Elizabethtown Industrial Park
Lying and being in Elizabethtown Township, Bladen County, North Carolina and being all of Tract 2, 5.92 acres, more or less, as shown and delineated on that plat of survey entitled “A Survey for Mary K. Greene “Owner” Proposed to Town of Elizabethtown” dated 03/11/2016 by
M. Shelton Bordeaux Surveying and recorded in Plat Cabinet C035 at Page 343, Bladen County Registry. PARCEL #0138760
ANNEXATION AREA 2A: 106.192 Acres – Elizabethtown Industrial Park
TRACT ONE: Being 104.81 acres, more or less, as shown on that map entitled “THE TOWN OF ELIZABETHTOWN” dated December 18, 2020, last revised January 19, 2021, by Larry King & Associates, R.L.S., P.A. and recorded in Book C107, Page 1061, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Bladen County.
TRACT TWO: Being Lot 6A, containing 1.382 acres, more or less, as shown on that map entitled ‘MAP FOR RECORD SURVEY FOR BLADEN’S BLOOMIN’ AGRI-INDUSTRIAL, INC.” dated September 8, 2011 by GS3 Geographic Solutions & Surveying Services, PLLC and recorded in Map Book B160, Page 1608, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Bladen
County. PORTION OF PARCEL #26604
ANNEXATION AREA 3A: 5.5 Acres, Less and Except 0.83 Acres and 1.0 Acre – Airport Property Being all of 5.5 acres, more or less as more fully described in a deed dated the 15th day of August 1988 by and between Byard Bryant and wife, Melba Bryant, as parties of the first part to Byard
Bryant, Jr., party of the second part, and recorded on July 29, 1999 in deed book 434, page 279 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Bladen County, to which reference is made for a more complete and accurate description.
Less and Except from the above-described conveyance: (1); 0.83 acres previously conveyed to the Town of Elizabethtown in Book 276, page 346 of the Bladen County Registry and (2) 1.0 acres, more or less, conveyed to Byard Bryant, Jr. by deed recorded in Book 292, page 794 of the
Bladen County Registry, which is reserved to the party of the first part. PARCEL #0016646 ANNEXATION AREA 4A: 1.0 Acre – Airport Property
All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the Elizabethtown Township, Bladen County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at an iron pipe, said iron pipe being the western corner of Tract #3 as shown on a plat for the City of Elizabethtown’s Airport and recorded in Plat Book 49A, Page 493 Bladen County Registry, thence with the first call south 36 degrees 03 minutes 45 seconds east 60.00 feet to a
stake, thence south 75 degrees 26 minutes 39 seconds west 340.57 feet to a stake, thence north 38 degrees 01 minutes 54 seconds west 106.87 feet to a stake, thence north 51 degrees 58 minutes 06 seconds east 188.96 feet to a stake, thence south 72 degrees 31 minutes 54 seconds
east 221.54 feet to the point and place of beginning. Containing 1.0 acres more or less and being a portion of the tract of land recorded in Deed Book 269, page 638 Bladen County Registry.
PARCEL #0025964
The rescheduled April 19, 2021 Town Council meeting will be a Virtual Meeting; therefore, please check the Town’s website (www.elizabethtownnc.org) for information to join the Zoom Call. Written comments for the Public Hearing may be submitted at any time between the Notice of Public Hearing and 24 hours after the public hearing. Written comments may be addressed to Town Clerk Juanita Hester either by email: jhester@elizabethtownnc.org or by including the written comments in an envelope addressed to the Town Clerk and leaving in the Town’s Drive-through Drop-Box at 805 W. Broad Street. No immediate action will take place on the annexation ordinance until after the 24-hour required timeframe for written public comments.
Sylvia Campbell, Mayor
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