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Home My WebLink About12861 ORD - 10/22/1975• JKH:hb:10 /6/75:1st AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 34, CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 34 -27 THEREOF, SO AS TO REGULATE THE CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS ON AND ABUTTING r'Ht PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY; REGULATING THE LOCATION OF DRIVEWAYS, SIDEWALKS AND APPROACHES TO PRIVATE PROPERTY FROM PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAYS; PROVIDING FOR VARIANCES IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES; REPEALING CITY ORDINANCE NO. 12068, PASSED AND APPROVED MAY 22, 1974; PROVIDING A PENALTY; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION. • BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Chapter 34, Corpus Christi City Code, 1958, as amended, and particularly as amended by Ordinance No. 11756 passed and approved October 24, 1973, and Ordinance No. 12068 passed and approved May 12, 1974, be and the same is hereby amended by amending Section 34- 27 to hereafter read as follows: "Section 34 -27. All driveways providing access from private property to any public right of way or roadway shall be constructed according to the following regulations: A. The maximum width of a driveway shall be 35 feet, except when a variance is granted in accordance with Section 34 -28 hereof. B. The curb return on all driveways shall have a radius of not less than three feet, and the point where the return falls tangent to the curb shall be within the property lines extended of the property which the driveway is designed to serve. C. Driveways connecting to streets that do not have concrete curb and gutter shall not be constructed of concrete, but shall be constructed of shell or caliche with or without asphaltic surface. Driveways connecting to streets that do have concrete curb and gutter shall be constructed as follows: 1. Driveway approaches, ramps, sidewalks, and curbs constructed in connection therewith shall be constructed of concrete having a minimum compressive strength of 2,500 PSI in 28 days, and shall have 12861 • • reinforcing consisting of 6" x 6" No. 6 wire mesh as a minimum, and shall have a minimum thickness of six inches. The minimum thickness of the sidewalk section may be reduced to four inches where the property served is used only for one or two family deellings. 2. Driveways shall be designed and constructed so as to provide for a sidewalk having a minimum width of five feet measured at right angles to the edge of the right of way. The minimum width may be reduced to four feet where the property served is used only for one or two family dwellings. Such a sidewalk shall be constructed so as to be in line with existing sidewalk if there be one. If there be no existing sidewalk, the sidewalk shall be constructed so as to have one edge thereof located within the right of way, parallel to and five feet from the edge of the right of way; and the other edge located within the right of way parallel to and not more than one foot from the edge of the right of way; or consistent with the general practice established by the existence of sidewalks on a majority of the property within the block where the drive- way is to be placed. 3. Sidewalk sections shall be constructed at an elevation which will provide for a minimum of ope- fourth inch per foot fall from the edge of the right of way to the top of the curb. From the edge of the sidewalk section (which is usually five feet from the edge of the right of way), the driveway shall ramp down to meet the flow line of the street gutter. In constructing such driveway ramp, it shall be mandatory that the back or uppermost edge of the curb and gutter section be removed. D. The grade for all curbs, sidewalks, and ramps shall be fixed by the Director of Engineering and Physical Development. E. 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 driveway provides access to or from expressway frontage roads, it shall 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 -2- • • 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 left curb line of the frontage road, and be located to minimize danger created by the crossing, weaving, and merging of traffic." SECTION 2. That Ordinance No. 12068, passed and approved by the City Council on May 22, 1974, be and the same hereby is repealed. SECTION 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating the terms and provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200). SECTION 4. 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 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 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. • ■ THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE VAS READ F T E FIRST TIME AND PASSED TO ITS SECOND READING ON THIS THE f. DAY OF a -lam 19 , BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: 7Ld1 JASON LUBY OP. BILL TIPTON EDUARDO DE AsES Run' GILL BOB GULLEY GABE LOZANO, SR. EDWARD L. SAMPLE Al or // THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE WAS R / F p TO ITS THIRD READING ON THIS THE /. DAY OF -�p/ TIME AND SSED FOLLOWING VOTE: �a�/1/ 19 BY THE JASON LUBY DR. BILL TIPTON EDUARDO DE ASES RUTH GILL BOB GULLEY GABE LOZANO, SR. EDWARD L. SAMPLE THAT THE FOREOOI5G ORDINANC FINALLY ON TNIS THE a;z alt DAY OF JASON LUBY DR. BILL TIPTON EDUARDO DE ASES RUTH GILL BOB GULLEY GABE LOZANO, SR. EDWARD L. SAMPLE PASSED AND APPROVED, TN1s rim ATTEST: FOR THE TMI TIME AND PASSED 197 BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: API00 �VA DAY OF , 19 Wan CITY ATTORNEY Alifi.‘1 lati-44) , 1921 MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT STATE OF TEXAS, L. County of Nueces. Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came •Rowena C, Velasquez who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the Agssamt..1.m. 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 Le,,JOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. 12861 AI1ENDING CHAPTER 311, CC CITY CODE, i98, AS AMENDED, BY ANENDflIG -EEC. . of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in C.n.rztus on the.25_.... day of...__Octolle.r. 1925,mitessaaxamAx. catiStaMSe-- Rowena C. Velasquez Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2Q_ day of., 0.gtob e r Eugenia S. 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