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AN ORDINANCE
CLOSING THAT PORTION OF GATEWAY DRIVE BETWEEN
O'CONNELL AND NAGLE STREETS, IN THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, SUBJECT
TO THE RETENTION OF THE FULL WIDTH OF THE STREET
AS A DRAINAGE EASEMENT UNTIL PROVISIONS FOR CON-
TINUOUS DRAINAGE CAN BE RESOLVED WITH THE ABUTTING
PROPERTY OWNERS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, notice of the time and place for holding a hearing
concerning the closing of a portion of Gateway Drive, between O'Connell
and Nagle Streets, in the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas,
was given by publication and mailed to the last known address 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 Wednesday, January 22, 1975, in accordance with the provisions
of the City Charter; and
WHEREAS, it was determined by the City Council after such
hearing that it would best serve the public convenience and necessity
to close the street within the limits hereinabove set forth, and more
fully described hereinafter, for use as a public street, subject to the
retention by the City of the full width of the street as a drainage
easement until provisions for continuous drainage can be resolved with
the abutting property owners:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the hereinafter described portion of Gateway
Drive, between O'Connell and Nagle Streets, in the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, be and the same is hereby closed for use as a public street and
hereby reverts to the abutting property owners, subject to the retention
by the City of the full width of the street as a drainage easement,
until provisions for continuous drainage can be resolved with the abutting
property owners.
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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. The fact that the public convenience and necessity
would be better served by the closing of the aforesaid street creates a
public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspen-
sion of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed
finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance or resolu-
tion shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the
Mayor having declared that such emergency and necessity 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 5 day of March, 1975.
ATTEST:
'City Zeal
Secretary MAYOR o=Tem
CITY OF CORPUS C ISTI, TEXAS
APPR E0: .
DAY OF MARCH. 1975:
City Att y
Corpus Christi, Texas
co day of 19
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 BO.TOAy
T CITlT OF CORPUS CHR STI, 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
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