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Home My WebLink About11640 ORD - 08/15/1973•JRR:RWC:vp:8 -15 -73 • 3rd AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8397, ESTABLISHING THE STANDARDS FOR SCREENING FENCES IN CONNECTION WITH REZONING AND SPECIAL PERMITS Bx DELETING PARAGRAPHS (2) THROUGH (9) OF SECTION 1, AND RMIMI4G SECTION 2 OF SAID ORDINANCE 8397; ADDING NEW PARAGRAPHS (2) AND (3) TO SAID SECTION 1; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; PRO- VIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, on occasions at the time of the granting of Special Permits and applications for rezoning, the construction of a screening fence is required as a condition of the rezoning or Special Permit, and it being deemed that certain minimum standards should be required in connection with such fence construction, Ordinance No. 8397 is hereby amended: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 8397, establishing the standards for screening fences in connection with rezoning and Special Permits, be, and the same is hereby amended by deleting paragraphs (2) through (9) of Section 1, and in Lieu thereof, adopting new paragraphs (2) and (3), reading as follows: "(2) It shall constitute a visual obstruction." "(3) The fence shall be capable of withstanding thirty (30) pounds per square foot horizontal load, allowing for wind from any direction." "(4) Where a standard screening fence is required by a special permit approved prior to August 15, 1973, the standards and specifi- cations therefor shall be as provided in Ordinance No. 8397 as adopted March 29, 1967 and as heretofore amended." SECTION 2. That Section 2 of Ordinance No. 8397 be, and the same is hereby repealed in its entirety. SECTION 3. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith shall be and are hereby repealed to the extent of conflict herewith. SECTION 4. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 5. Publication shell be made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi, by publishing the caption of this ordinance, stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance. JL1_6`S® SECTION 6. The necessity to repeal portions of the ordinance providing for screening fences and to amend portions thereof and to add new requirements creates a public emergency and an imperative public neces- sity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared such emergency and neces- sity 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 and publica- tion, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the�day of4L, 1973. Ij ATTEST: C ty Se a ary _ / MpyOR ov (/ THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS APPROVED: 1� DAY OF 1973: C y Attorney t/ - Corpus Christi, Texas day of C - , 19%J TO THE MEMBERS OF THE 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; I, 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, MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jason Luby James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark .e, -ae The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Jason Luby James T. Acuff Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. L J. Howard Stark �� PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT STATE OF TEXAS, County of Nuee . Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came....— who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Timm Daffy Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of —Ler_aJ.-Rat-tze --Not, Jpg gf -paaaage nf' nrdinanae. an- -.LIW- of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in --.— ... Mmeu&--- on the-22Adday of Augu a t I —Times. Subscribed and sworn to before m a this 28t Richard D. Hardin Class, Adv. Mgr. y Louise Vick -�� otary Public, Nueces County, Texas I�