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AN ORDINANCE
CLOSING OF A PORTION OF RAILROAD AVENUE,
DESCRIBED AS THAT 80.71+ -FOOT PORTION OF
RAILROAD AVENUE ABUTTING LOTS 1 AND 2, BLOCK
6, AND THE WEST 30 FEET OF TWENTIETH STREET
BETWEEN BLOCKS 5 AND 6, PATRICK WEBB ADDITION,
IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY,
TEXAS, SUBJECT TO THE RETENTION BY THE CITY OF
A 10 -FOOT WIDE UTILITY EASEMENT IN TWENTIETH
STREET FROM LAREDO STREET TO THE NORTH RIGHT OF
WAY LINE OF RAILROAD AVENUE AND EXCEPTING ANY AREA
TRANSVERSED BY A RAILROAD SPUR TRACK, AND THAT
SUCH STRIP BE DECLARED A FIRE LANE WITH NO PARKING
PERMITTED AT ANY TIME; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, NOTICE OF THE CLOSING OF THE PORTION OF RAILROAD
AVENUE DESCRIBED AS THAT 80.74 -FOOT PORTION OF RAILROAD AVENUE ABUTTING
LOTS 1 AND 2, BLOCK 6, AND THE WEST 30 FEET OF TWENTIETH STREET
BETWEEN BLOCKS 5 AND 6, PATRICK +/EBB ADDITION, IN THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, HAS BEEN GIVEN BY PUBLICATION AND
REGISTERED MAIL TO THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES OF ALL OWNERS ABUTTING
SAID STREETS AND WITHIN 450 FEET THEREOF, AND THEREAFTER, PURSUANT
TO SAID NOTICE, WHICH PUBLIC HEARING WAS HELD BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, ON AUGUST 21, 1963, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY CHARTER; AND
WHEREAS, IT HAS BEEN DULY DETERMINED BY THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, AFTER SAID PUBLIC HEARING THAT THE SAID PORTIONS OF RAILROAD
AVENUE AND TWENTIETH STREETS ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR STREET PURPOSES AND
THAT IT WILL BE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
TO HAVE SAID PORTIONS OF THE AFORESAID STREETS CLOSED, BUT THAT THERE BE
RETAINED BY THE CITY A 10 -FOOT WIDE UTILITY EASEMENT IN TWENTIETH STREET
FROM LAREDO STREET TO THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF RAILROAD AVENUE,
AND ALSO EXCEPTING ANY AREA TRANSVERSED BY A RAILROAD SPUR TRACK, AND
DECLARING SUCH STRIP A FIRE LANE, WITH NO PARKING PERMITTED AT ANY
TIME:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION I. THAT THERE 1S HEREBY CLOSED FOR PUBLIC USE A
PORTION OF RAILROAD AVENUE DESCRIBED AS THAT 80.(4 -FOOT PORTION OF
RAILROAD AVENUE ABUTTING LOTS 1 AND 2; BLOCK 6, AND THE WEST 30 FEET
OF TWENTIETH STREET BETWEEN BLOCKS 5 AND 6, PATRICK WEBB ADDITION, IN
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS HOWEVER, THERE IS
RESERVED TO THE CITY A 10-FOOT WIDE UTILITY EASEMENT IN TWENTIETH
STREET FROM LAREDO STREET TO THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF RAILROAD
AVENUE THERE IS ALSO EXCEPTED ANY AREA TRANSVERSED BY A RAILROAD
SPUR TRACK, SUCH STRIP BEING DECLARED A FIRE LANE, WITH NO PARKING
PERMITTED AT ANY TIME.
SECTION 2. THE FACT THAT THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY
WOULD BE BETTER SERVED BY THE CLOSING OF THE AFORESAID PORTIONS OF THE
STREETS HEREINABOVE DESCRIBED CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE
PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO
ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS
INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT
THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED
SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION
OF SAID CHARTER RULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE
DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT
FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY 50 ORDAINED, THIS THE � /L
DAY OF APRIL, 1964. -
ATTEST:
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
ClTY SECRET Y
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THIS
DAY OF APRIL, 1964:
J
CITY ATTORN._Y
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
O�D AY OF r 9�
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FORE-
GOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR
THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR
RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, AND THAT
SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY
COUNCIL; I, THEREFORE, HEREBY REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE
OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRO-
DUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
RESPECTFULLY,
,THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,, TEXAS.
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
JAMES L. BARNARD
JAMES H. YOUNG
JACK R. BLACKMON
JOSE R. DELEON
M. P. MALDONADO
W. J. ROBERTS
W. H. WALLACE, JR.
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLO LNG VOTE:
JAMES L. BARNARD cc—j-',
JAMES H. YOUNG C[�.
JACK R. BLACKMON
JOSE R. DELEON
M. P. MALDONADO
W. J. ROBERTS
W. H. WALLACE, JR. ___C�o
PUBLISHERS AFF VII
STATE OF TEXAS,
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County of Nueces.
Before eed a Vary Public, this day persona
Leland G. Barneshob ing first duly sworn, according
C1aSyie PAdvaprti: __.. -. of the Corpus Christi Caller and W Dail News a ers ubhisti, Texas, in said County and State,th
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Louise Vick
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