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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958 AS
AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 34 -27 BY ADDING
SUBSECTION (G), PROVIDING FOR LOCATION OF DRIVE-
WAYS TO MAXIMIZE SAFETY; REGULATING THE PLACE-
MENT OF DRIVEWAYS IN RELATION TO INTERSECTIONS;
PROHIBITING THE PLACEMENT OF DRIVEWAYS WITHIN
150 FEET OF EXPRESSWAY OFF- RAMPS, ALL AS MORE
FULLY SET OUT HEREIN; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY;
AND 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, 1958, as
amended, be and the same is hereby amended by adding subsection 34 -27
(G) to read as follows:
"(G) The location of the driveway must (1) provide
maximum safety for motorists, pedestrians, and users
of the driveway; (2) be a sufficient distance from street
intersections to optimize safety in the movement of traffic
in the area of such intersections; and (3) if the drive-
way provides access to or from expressway frontage roads,
not intersect the frontage road at any point along the curb
line of the frontage road, or along the edge of the pavement
if there is no identifiable curb line, within 150 feet,
measured in the direction of traffic flow on the frontage
road, from a line perpendicular to the right curb line of
the frontage road drawn through the point of intersection of
the right curb line of an off -ramp and the left curb line of
the frontage road, and be located to minimize danger created
by the crossing, weaving, and merging of traffic."
SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, sub-
division, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be
held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent
jurisdiction is shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the
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That the foregoing ordinan a as read for the first time an passed
to its second reading on this the day of 19, 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 ordinance was read or he second time d passed
to its third reading on this the ,day of 19 by the
following vote:
Jason Luby
,Tames T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzales
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
That the foregoing ordinance was read fo the third time and passed
finally on this the day of Z77 L44 19 by the following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzales
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the c;�2 day of 19.
ATTEST:
City Secret ydr
APPROVED:
_DAY OF, 19:
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MAYOR �o•iGp1
T A TY OF CORPUS ISTI, TEXAS
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Nueces.
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ..................
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Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State. and that the publication of
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this ............day of-- JU�;: ---- - ----------- - - – - -----------
Kenneth Holt . ......
Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas
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MOTION -f
( a1 moved and
Seconded the Motion that the ordinance read on the first of
three readings on May 8, 1974, which ordinance amends the Corpus Christi City
Code, 1958, as amended, by amending Section 34 -27 by adding Subsection (G),
be amended prior to the second reading thereof by deleting from said Sub-
section (G) of Section 34 -27 as appears in Section 1 of the aforesaid
ordinance, the wording following "expressway frontage roads" in line 7 and
by adding the following:
"not intersect the frontage road at any point along the
curb line of the frontage road, or along the edge of the
pavement if there is no identifiable curb line, within 150
feet, measured in the direction of traffic flow on the frontage
road, from a line perpendicular to the right curb line of the
frontage road drawn through the point of intersection of the
right curb line of an off -ramp and the left curb line of the
frontage road, and be located to minimize danger created by the
crossing, weaving, and merging of traffic."
Subsection (G) of Section 34 -27 to hereafter read as follows:
"(G) The location of the driveway must (1) provide maxi-
mum safety for motorists, pedestrians, and users of the
driveway; (2) be a sufficient distance from street inter-
sections to optimize safety in the movement of traffic in
the area of such intersections; and (3) if the driveway
provides access to or from expressway frontage roads, not
intersect the frontage road at any point along the curb
line of the frontage road, or along the edge of the pave-
ment if there is no identifiable curb line, within 150 feet,
measured in the direction of traffic flow on the frontage road,
from a line perpendicular to the right curb line of the
frontage road drawn through the point of intersection of the
right curb line of an off -ramp and the left curb line of the