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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 37, EXTENDING FROM CORPUS CHRISTI
} TO SAN ANTONIO IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION; AND
WHEREAS, CORPUS CHRISTI NAVAL AIR STATION, ONE OF THE IMPORTANT
NAVAL AIR TRAINING CENTERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, EMPLOYING APPROX-
IMATELY 1200 CIVILIANS, IS LOCATED IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; AND
WHEREAS, AN AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE AND RECONSTRUCTION FACILITY,
ARMY AERO DEPOT MAINTENANCE CENTER, IS OPERATED BY THE UNITED STATES
ARMY, EMPLOYING APPROXIMATELY EIGHTEEN HUNDRED CIVILIANS AND AN IMPORTANT
FACILITY OF THE ARMY TRANSPORTATION COMMAND, IS OCCUPYING A PORTION OF
THE CORPUS CHRISTI NAVAL AIR STATION FACILITIES; AND
WHEREAS, A TRANSPORTATION STUDY PREPARED JOINTLY BY THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, THE TEXAS STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT AND THE UNITED
STATES BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS, UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE FEDERAL AID
HIGHWAY ACT, HAS BEEN UNDERTAKEN AND COMPLETED AS ONE OF THE FIRST COM-
PLETED PLANS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SAID ACT; AND
WHEREAS, SUCH PLANS ENVISION A NEED FOR A FREEWAY FACILITY
EXTENDING FROM INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 37 TO CORPUS CHRISTI NAVAL AIR STATION;
AND
WHEREAS, PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATION AREA HAS
RECENTLY BEEN ESTABLISHED BY�CONGRESS ON THE GULF OF MEXICO NEAR CORPUS
CHRISTI AND NEAR SAID CORPUS CHRISTI NAVAL AIR STATION; AND
WHEREAS, MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE NATION WILL BE INTERESTED
IN DRIVING TO THE FACILITIES OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI NAVAL AIR STATION AND
THE PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATION AREA; AND
WHEREAS, A ROAD EXTENDING FROM INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 37 TO PADRE
ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATION AREA WOULD ALSO SERVE AS A HIGHWAY
TO THE SAID ARMY AERO DEPOT MAINTENANCE CENTER INSTALLATION AND THE
CORPUS CHRISTI NAVAL AIR STATION AND SUCH ROAD WOULD ALSO BE NEAR THE
NEWLY CONSTRUCTED NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE ADMINISTRATION SPACE FLIGHT
NETWORK STATION NO. 16 AT ROOD FIELD:
7298
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE UNITED STATES BUREAU
OF PUBLIC ROADS BE URGED TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER CONVERSION OF THE EXIST-
ING ROAD IN THE STATE HIGHWAY ROAD SYSTEM, KNOWN AS LEXINGTON BOULEVARD
OR STATE HIGHWAY 358, AS A CONNECTING ROAD BETWEEN INTERSTATE HIGHWAY
37 AND PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATION AREA AND BE CONSTRUCTED,
OPERATED AND MAINTAINED AS A PART OF THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE / DAY OF JULY, 1964.
MAY
ATTEST: HE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THIS THE
% DAY 0 JULY, 1964:
CITY AYTORNEY
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
/y i DAY OF 1 , l9 C. /:
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,
OR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
JAMES L. BARNARD
JAMES H. YOUNG
JACK R. BLACKMON .p
JOSE R. DELEON
M. P. MALDONADO
W. J. ROBERTS
W. H. WALLACE, JR. to
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWI VOTE:
JAMES L. BARNARD C t
JAMES H. YOUNG
JACK R. BLACKMON .c
JOSE R. DELEON
M. P. MALDONADO
W. J. ROBERTS
W. H. WALLACE, JR.