HomeMy WebLinkAbout033786 RES - 10/21/2025RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE PETITIONS AND OTHER APPROPRIATE
INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE CORPUS CHRISTI
AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY CONSERVATION DISTRICT TO INCLUDE
CITY -OWNED PROPERTIES IN THE DISTRICT UNDER TEXAS WATER CODE
SECTION 36.321
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The City Council authorizes City staff to submit petitions including the
attached Petition and other appropriate information and documents to the Corpus Christi
Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District to include City -owned properties in
the District under Texas Water Code Section 36.321. The form of the attached petition
is authorized to be used to submit additional petitions to include additional City -owned
property in the District. The City Attorney is authorized to modify the form of the petition
as necessary for compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
SECTION 2. The City Council will appoint two non -City staff members to the board of
directors of the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District upon
expiration of the terms of the next two directors.
PASSED and APPROVED on the a\_5 day of OC-t(W , 2025.
Paulette Guajardo,
ATTEST:
Rebbcca Huerta, City Secretary
063786
SCANNED
PETITION TO THE CORPUS CHRISTI AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY
CONSERVATION DISTRICT TO ADD TERRITORY UNDER TEXAS WATER CODE 36.321
To the Board of the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District:
The City of Corpus Christi ("Petitioner"), an owner of certain real property situated in Nueces
County, submits this Petition Requesting Inclusion of certain Petitioner -owned property into
the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District ("District"). In
support of the Petition, the Petitioner shows the District the following:
Recitals
Whereas, Texas Water Code Section 36.321 provides that an owner of land not already in a
groundwater conservation district (a "GCD") may request that the owner's land be included
in the district; and
Whereas, Texas Water Code Section 36.331 provides that land not contiguous to the existing
boundaries of a GCD may be added to the GCD if the land and the GCD are located within
the same management area; and
Whereas, Texas Water Code Section 36.323 provides that the GCD board shall hear and
consider a petition to be included in the GCD, and may add the land described in the petition
to the GCD, if it is considered to be to the advantage of the petitioner and to the existing GCD;
and
Whereas, the District is a conservation and reclamation district charged with conserving,
preserving, protecting, recharging, and preventing waste of groundwater and groundwater
reservoirs or their subdivisions, to control subsidence caused by withdrawal of water from
those groundwater reservoirs or their subdivisions, and to develop and protect municipal
aquifer storage areas created by the City of Corpus Christi, consistent with the objectives of
Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution,
Whereas, the District regulates groundwater production within a territory defined by Section
8811.004 of the Texas Special District Local Laws Code, as that territory has been modified
from time to time since the creation of the District; and
Whereas, the City of Corpus Christi (the "Petitioner") owns certain parcels of real property
in Nueces County, as more specifically described below (the "Petitioner's Property"); and
Whereas, the Petitioner's Property is not already in a GCD; and
Whereas, the Petitioner's Property and the District are each located within Groundwater
Management Area 16 ("GMA 16"); and
Whereas, the District does not have bonds, notes, or other obligations outstanding or bonds
payable in whole or in part from taxation that have been voted but are unissued; and
Whereas, the inclusion of the Petitioner's Property into the District would be to the
advantage of the District and the Petitioner.
Request to Include Land Within the District
1. Recitals Incorporated: The recitals above are true and correct and are incorporated
into this Petition for all purposes.
2. Land to Be Included: Petitioner requests that the following tracts of land described
below (referred to throughout as "Petitioner's Property") each be included in the
District:
a. NCAD Property ID: 292297; Legal Description: Lot 142, Riverside Addition,
Unit Three, an addition to Nueces County, Texas, according to the map or plat
thereof, recorded in Volume 23, Page 23, Map Records of Nueces County,
Texas.
b. NCAD Property ID: 292305; Legal Description: Lot 150, Riverside Addition,
Unit Three, an addition to Nueces County, Texas, according to the map or plat
thereof, recorded in Volume 23, Page 23, Map Records of Nueces County
Texas, and also described in County Clerk's Document File #962958, Official
Records of Nueces County, Texas.
c. NCAD Property ID 292306; Legal Description: Lot 151, Riverside Addition, Unit
3, an addition near the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas,
according to the map or plat thereof, recorded in Volume 23, Page 23, Map
Records of Nueces County, Texas.
d. NCAD Property ID 292307; Legal Description: Lot 152, Riverside Addition Unit
3, an addition to Nueces County, Texas, according to the map or plat thereof,
recorded in Volume 23, Page 23, Map Records of Nueces County, Texas.
e. NCAD Property ID 292310; Legal Description: Lot 155 and Lot 156, Riverside
Addition, Unit Three, an addition to Nueces County, Texas, according to the
map or plat thereof, recorded in Volume 23, Page 23, Map Records of Nueces
County, Texas.
f. NCAD Property ID: 292337; Legal Description: Lots 181, 182 and 183 Riverside
Addition Unit Three, an addition to Nueces County, Texas, according to the
map or plat thereof, recorded in Volume 23, Page 23, Map Records of Nueces
County, Texas.
g. NCAD Property ID: 292580; Legal Description: 4.235 acres of land, more or
less, (sometimes known as Lot J of an unrecorded plat), out of Lot 1, Block 4,
Riverside Addition Annex, a Subdivision located in Nueces County, Texas, a
plat of which is recorded in Volume 29, Page 97, Map Records of Nueces
County, Texas, said 4.325 acre tract being more particularly described by
metes and bounds in Exhibit 'A' of a Deed of Trust recorded in Volume 2224,
pages 449-454, of the Deed of Trust Records of Nueces County, Texas.
h. NCAD Property ID: 292576; Legal Description: 3.24 acres of land, more or
less, being unrecorded Lot "F", Block 4, Riverside Addition Annex, a
Subdivision located in Nueces County, Texas, according to the map or plat
thereof recorded in Volume 29, Page 97, Map Records of Nueces County,
Texas.
i. NCAD Property ID: 292491; Legal Description: Lots 8 and 9, Block 1, Riverside
Addition Annex, an addition to the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County,
Texas, according to the map or plat thereof, recorded in Volume 29, Page 97,
Map Records of Nueces County, Texas.
j. NCAD Property ID: 292579; Legal Description: RIVERSIDE ADD ANNEX LT I
UNREC OUT LT 1 BLK 4.
k. NCAD Property ID: 242732; Legal Description: Herrera Grant N Por 155.7622
ACS out of Par 7, and also described in County Clerk's Document File
#2025022944, Official Records of Nueces County, Texas.
1. NCAD Property ID: 272719; Legal Description: Herrera Grant N Por 57.515
ACS out TRS 2,3 & 4 out of a 78.47 AC TR, and also described in County Clerk's
Document File #2025022944, Official Records of Nueces County, Texas.
m. NCAD Property ID: 624275; Legal Description: Herrera Grant N Por 2.5 ACS
out of 40.173 ACS out of S PTTR 1 SHR 1, and also described in County Clerk's
Document File #2025022944, Official Records of Nueces County, Texas.
n. NCAD Property ID: 242724; Legal Description: Herrera Grant N Por 34.3388
ACS of Par 4, and also described in County Clerk's Document File
#2025022944, Official Records of Nueces County, Texas.
3. Maps. Each tract of Petitioner's Property is illustrated in the map attached to this
Petition as Exhibit A, which is incorporated into this Petition for all purposes.
4. GMA. All of Petitioner's Property is located within GMA 16. A copy of the GMA 16
boundaries is attached to this Petition as Exhibit B, which is incorporated into this
Petition for all purposes.
5. Advantage of Inclusion. The Petitioner and the District each benefit by adding
Petitioner's Property to the District. The District territory was intended to include,
among other territory, all property in Nueces County that is owned by the Petitioner.
Inclusion of Petitioner's Property in the District gives the District the ability to manage
Petitioner's groundwater resources uniformly and in the same manner as the other
groundwater resources within its jurisdiction. The Petitioner benefits by having its
Nueces County groundwater resources subject to a single regulatory body, bringing
consistency and predictability to the Petitioner's management of its groundwater
resources. This consistency and predictability of groundwater management benefits
the Petitioner and the District equally.
6. Modified District Boundaries. Upon granting the Petition, the District boundaries
will be modified to include the tracts of land identified herein as Petitioner's Property.
7. Request for Board Action. The City of Corpus Christi respectfully requests that the
Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District:
a. hear and consider this Petition;
b. grant this Petition to add the Petitioner's Property, as described above and in
Exhibit A, to the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation
District;
c. grant a variance for existing City wells; and
d. record the granted Petition in the office of the Nueces County Clerk.
Submitted by: The City of Corpus Christi Attest:
Peter Zanoni Rebecca Huerta
City Manager City Secretary
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF NUECES
This instrument was acknowledged before me on this the day of October, 2025 by
as the for the City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
Notary Public, State of Texas
EXHIBIT A
EXHIBIT B
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