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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, AS
AMENDED BY AMENDING SECTION 21 -9, OBSTRUCTING
STREET INTERSECTIONS WITH SHRUBS, STRUCTURES,
ETC., SUBSECTION (a) THEREOF, SO AS TO PROVIDE
THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL
APPLY TO ALL AREAS DESIGNATED AND CLASSIFIED
BY THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY EXCEPT
THOSE ZONES DESIGNATED AS "B -5" OR "B -6 ";
PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Corpus Christi City Code, as amended,
be and the same is hereby amended by amending Section 21 -9, OBSTRUCT-
ING STREET INTERSECTIONS WITH SHRUBS, STRUCTURES, ETC., subsection
(a) thereof, so as to provide that the provisions of this section
shall apply to all those areas of the City designated and classi-
fied by the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Corpus Christi,
adopted on the 27th'day of August 1937, and appearing of record
in Volume 9, page 565 of the ordinance and resolution records
of the City of Corpus Christi, and especially as amended by
ordinance passed and approved by the City Council on May 4,
1948, being Ordinance No. 2266, and as amended from time to time,
except those zones designated as "B -5" or "B -6 ", as of the time
of the alleged violations hereof, said subsection (a) to here-
after read as follows:
"(a) No person shall erect any wall, fence or other
structure to a height greater than three feet
above the level of the crown of the roadway,
or plant any hedge, tree, shrub or growth of
a height greater than three feet above the level
of the crown of the roadway, or maintain or
permit the existence of any such wall, fence
or other structure of a height greater than
three feet above the level of the crown of the
roadway, or maintain or permit the growth or
existence of any hedge, tree, shrub or other
structure to a height greater than three feet
above the level of the crown of the roadway,
upon any property owned by him or under his
control, wherever such property is bounded
on two adjacent sides by public right of ways
for road, street, boulevard, alleyway or other
public passageway. The area restricted by
this section shall be the area of the corner
or corners of such property, more particularly
described as being that area bounded by two
intersecting boundaries of the public right
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of ways for a distance of twenty feet of
each of such boundaries from the point of
intersection, and bounded by a third side
determined by the drawing of a straight line
from the points on the two intersecting
boundaries twenty feet from their intersection;
provided, however, that the existence of a
tree shall not be unlawful so long as such
tree is free of branches and foliage for a
height of at least seven feet above the level
of the crown of the roadway; and provided
further, that the provisions of this section
shall apply to all those areas of the city
designated and classified by the Zoning
Ordinance of the City of Corpus Christi
adopted on the 27th day of August 1937,
and appearing of record in Volume 9, page
565 of the ordinance and resolution
records of the City of Corpus Christi, and
especially as amended by ordinance passed
and approved by the City Council on May 4,
1948, being Ordinance No. 2266, and as amend -
ded from time to time, except those zones
designated as 'B -5' or 'B -6', as of the time
of the alleged violation hereof."
SECTION 2. 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 3. Publication shall 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.
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That the foregoing ordinance was read for he first time and passed
to its second reading on this the /%4t day of s 197,4 , by the
following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
That the foregoing ordinan a was read for the second time and passed
to its third reading on this theckl ay of / ,,19 75', by the
following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
That the foregoing ordinanc as read for the third time and passed
finally on this the /. day of 19 7/, by the following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the /St day of , 19 77 .
ATTEST:
City Secretary
AP�jpyED
—^ DAY OF
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/y5! City Attorney
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS, L.
County of Nneces.
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came.
bc/m1A, vica_ who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
_Office...Manager of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times,
Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of
LegalccOottee of Passage Ordinance #121230.,...
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in TIMIS 5
0ntheJL day of MM.
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Louie Viek, Office Manager
Subscribed and sworn to before me this .5 day of AIM 19114
Kenneth Holt ■.....rs,tAll_
Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas
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