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AN ORDINANCE
CLOSING A PORTION OF LEWIS STREET, BOUNDED ON THE NORTH
BY CARTER STREET, ON THE SOUTH BY TOMPKINS STREET, RUN-
NING PARALLEL WITH LOTS 1 AND 24, BLOCK 3, AND LOTS 13,
AND 12, BLOCK 20, SOUTHMORELAND ADDITION IN THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS; RESERVING, HOWEVER,
UTILITY EASEMENTS TO THE CITY FOR ALL UTILITIES; AND DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, NOTICE OF THE TIME AND PLACE FOR HOLDING A HEARING CON-
CERNING THE CLOSING OF A PORTION OF LEWIS STREET, BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY
CARTER STREET, ON THE SOUTH BY TOMPKINS STREET, RUNNING PARALLEL WITH LOTS
I AND 24, BLOCK 3, AND LOTS 13 AND 12, BLOCK 20, SOUTHMORELAND ADDITION IN
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, WAS GIVEN BY PUBLICATION
AND REGISTERED MAIL TO THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES OF THE OWNERS OF PROPERTY
ABUTTING SAID STREET AND WITHIN 450 FEET OF THE AREA TO BE CLOSED, AND
THEREAFTER, PURSUANT TO SAID NOTICE, PUBLIC HEARING WAS HELD AT REGULAR
MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ON WENDESDAY
JULY 8, 1970, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY CHARTER; AND
WHEREAS, IT WAS DETERMINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AFTER SUCH HEARING
THAT THE PORTION OF THE STREET ABOVE DESCRIBED IS NOT NOW NEEDED FOR STREET
PURPOSES, BUT WILL BE NEEDED FOR UTILITY PURPOSES, NOR WILL IT WITHIN THE
FORESEEABLE FUTURE BE NEEDED FOR STREET PURPOSES; AND
WHEREAS, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT IT IS TO THE ADVANTAGE OF
THE CITY TO CLOSE THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PORTION OF LEWIS STREET SO THAT THE
SAME MAY BE USED BY THE ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNERS FOR OTHER PURPOSES; HOW-
EVER, THE CITY COUNCIL HAS DETERMINED THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO RETAIN EASE-
MENTS FOR ALL EXISTING UTILITIES:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THAT PORTION OF LEWIS STREET, BOUNDED ON THE
NORTH BY CARTER STREET, ON THE SOUTH BY TOMPKINS STREET, RUNNING PARALLEL
WITH LOTS I AND 24, BLOCK 3, AND LOTS 13 AND 12, BLOCK 20, SOUTHMORELAND
ADDITION, AS SHOWN ON THE ATTACHED PLAT, IS HEREBY CLOSED FOR PUBLIC USE
AND ABANDONED TO THE OWNERS OF THE ABUTTING PROPERTY; HOWEVER, THERE IS
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EXCEPTED FROM SAID ABANDONMENT, THE RIGHT OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO
RETAIN AN EASEMENT FOR ALL EXISTING UTILITIES, SAID EASEMENT TO BE RETAINED
UNTIL SUCH UTILITIES MAY BE RELOCATED AT THE EXPENSE OF ABUTTING PROPERTY
OWNERS.
SECTION 2. THE FACT THAT THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY
WOULD BE BETTER SERVED BY THE CLOSING OF THE AFORESAID PORTION OF LEWIS
STREET CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIR-
ING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL
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, AND
HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF THE 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 SO OR-
DAINED, THIS THE l�J DAY OF JULY, 1970.
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TO THE MEMBERS OF TIIE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen-
sion 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; 1, therefore,
request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi-
nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the
City Council.
Respectfully,
i1A OR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
V. A. "Dick'Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel
W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts
Ronnie Sizemore
The above ordinance was passed by the fo owing vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Y. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel
W. J. ',Wrangler" Roberts
Ronnie Sizemore
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