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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDINGS BY THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO CONDEMN FEE TITLE TO CERTAIN
PARCELS OR TRACTS OF LAND LOCATED IN NUECES COUNTY,
TEXAS; DESCRIBING SAID PROPERTY, INDENTIFYING THE
RECORD TITLE OWNERS AND CITING LIENHOLDERS OF
RECORD, SAID CONDEMNATION BEING NECESSARY FOR THE
ACQUISITION OF PARCELS NO. 105, 106 AND 297 FOR
THE CORPUS CHRISTI BEACH PARKSITES PROJECT NO.
291- 72 -12; DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO INSTITUTE
CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE RECORD OWNER,
LORRAINE DALY JOLLIFFE AND HUSBAND, JERRY R.
JOLLIFFE, TO CARRY OUT THE INTENTIONS OF THE
ORDINANCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, IT IS NECESSARY TO ACQUIRE, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, CERTAIN PARCELS OR TRACTS OF LAND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
PARCEL #105
LOTS FOUR (4) AND SIX (6), BLOCK TWENTY -THREE (23), BROOKLYN
ADDITION, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
ACCORDING TO MAP OR PLAT RECORDED IN VOLUME "A", PAGES 30, 31
Sr.32, MAP RECORDS, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS.
PARCEL #106
LOTS NOS. EIGHT (8), TEN (10) AND TWELVE (12), IN BLOCK
TWENTY -THREE (23), BROOKLYN, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS, AS SHOWN BY THE MAP THEREOF, RECORDED IN VOLUME
"A ", PAGES 30, 31 & 32, MAP RECORDS, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS.
PARCEL #297
LOTS ONE (1), THREE (3), AND FIVE (5), BLOCK THREE - HUNDRED
EIGHTY -FOUR (384), BROOKLYN, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS, AS SHOWN BY THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED
IN VOLUME A, PAGES 30, 312 & 32, MAP RECORDS, NUECES COUNTY,
TEXAS.
WHEREAS, THE SAID CORPUS CHRISTI BEACH PARKSITES PROJECT, NO.
291- 72 -12, REQUIRES THE ACQUISITION OF FEE SIMPLE TITLE IN AND TO THE
AFORESAID PARCELS OR-TRACTS OF LAND; AND
WHEREAS, RECORD TITLE OF THE AFORESAID PARCEL APPEARS TO BE IN
THE FOLLOWING: LORRAINE DALY JOLLIFFE AND HUSBAND, JERRY R. JOLLIFFE; AND
WHEREAS, THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, IS UNABLE TO ARRIVE
AT AN AGREEMENT WITH THE SAID OWNERS AND CLAIMANTS AS TO THE PRICE AND VALUE
OF SAID LOTS OR PARCELS OF LAND AND DAMAGES FOR THE TAKING THEREOF BY THE
CITY; IT IS, THEREFORE, DETERMINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL THAT IT IS NECESSARY
THAT THE SAID LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND DESCRIBED BE ACQUIRED IN FEE TITLE THROUGH
THE EXERCISE OF THE CITY'S POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN FOR SAID PUBLIC PURPOSE.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY CHARTER AND THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF TEXAS, THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, DOES HEREBY
ORDER, DIRECT, AND AUTHORIZE THAT EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDINGS BE INSTITUTED
FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACQUIRING THE FEE SIMPLE TITLE OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED LAND
AND PREMISES, EXCLUDING MINERAL,INTEREST FOR USE BY THE CITY FOR THE CORPUS
CHRISTI BEACH PARKSITES PROJECT, AND FOR OTHER MUNICIPAL PURPOSES, WITHIN
THE CITY LIMITS, AND TO CONDEMN THE FEE TITLE TO THE AFORESAID PARCELS OR..
TRACTS OF LAND, EXCLUDING MINERAL INTEREST.
SECTION 2. THE CITY ATTORNEY OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI IS
HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE SAID
PROPERTY, AND AGAINST ALL PERSONS WHO APPEAR TO HAVE AN INTEREST THEREIN,
AND TO PROCEED WITH SAID CONDEMNATION SUIT TO ITS FINAL CONCLUSION AND TO
OBTAIN POSSESSION AND TITLE TO SAID PROPERTY FOR USE IN THE CORPUS CHRISTI
BEACH PARKSITES PROJECT AND FOR OTHER MUNICIPAL PURPOSES.
SECTION 3. THE PUBLIC IMPORTANCE AND NECESSITY FOR THE CITY TO
GAIN IMMEDIATE POSSESSION AND TITLE TO THE AFORESAID TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND
HEREINABOVE DESCRIBED FOR THE CORPUS CHRISTI BEACH PARKSITES PROJECT AND FOR
OTHER MUNICIPAL PURPOSES, WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS AS ABOVE DESCRIBED AND
PROVIDED, CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY
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 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 ORDAINED, THIS THE l� DAY OF OCTOBER, 1974.
ATTEST:
Cll ECRETARY
APPROV
DAY OF OCTOBER, 1974:
MC. ASST., CITY ATTORNEY
MAY
E CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, Texas
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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,
MAYO
NZ/CITY OF CORPUS C I, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jason Luby Q4�
James T. Acuff 15E11 —1
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
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.
J. Howard Stark