HomeMy WebLinkAbout01759 ORD - 12/29/1944AN ORDINANCE
OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, RECEIVING INTO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS THE TERRITORY ADJACENT. TO THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, THE SAID TERRITORY INCLUDING NUECES COUNTY
WATER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1, FULLY DESCRIBING
SAID TERRITORY SO RECEIVED INTO THE CITY AS AN INTE-
GRAL PART OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, AND DE-
FINING ITS LIMITS, AND DECLARING THE SAME A PART OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, SUBJECT TO THE RULES,
REGULATIONS. ORDINANCES AND CHARTER OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, AND CHARGED WITH ITS BURDENS AND
THE ASSUMPTION BY THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI OF ALL
OF THE BONDED INDEBTEDNESS AND FLAT RATES OF THE
TERRITORY THUS ANNEX&D AND DUE NUECES COUNTY WATER
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1 TO THE EXTENT PROVIDED
BY LAW, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, on the 15th day of November, 1944, there was
filed with the City Council and afterward amended a Petition
signed by Willard H. Perkins and 437 others, all alleging them.
selves to be a majority of the duly qualified resident voters re-
siding in the territory in such Petition described, petitioning
this Council to admit such territory in to the city of Corpus
Christi, Texas; and
WHEREAS, the territory described in said Petition,
which territory is adjacent to the city of Corpus Christi, Texas,
ie fully described in Section 1 hereof, and such description is
the same description as contained in Petition heretofore presented
to this Council, and is the same description as contained in the
order calling elections heretofore passed by this Council on
December 2, 1944; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, after duly investigation,
ascertained and determined that said Petition was filed by a
majority of the duly qualified resident voters residing within
said territory so described in said Petition, did by an ordinance
passed on the 2nd day of December, 1944, order that an election
be held on the 28th day of December, 1944, within the city limits
of the city of Corpus Christi to determine whether the territory
described in said petition should be annexed to the city of
Corpus Christi and all bonded indebtedness and flat rates owing
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to said Water Control and Imppovement District located within
said territory should be assumed by the city of Corpus Christi,
a full and complete description of said territory by mates and
bounds being set out in said Ordinance calling said election,
and said proposition being ordered to be submitted at said
election to the vote of the legally qualified property tax pay -
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,n „„hgytprritm�,i al - limits of said city
of Corpus Christi; and
WFE REAS, on the same date of December 2, 1944, the
City Commissioners of the city of Corpus Christi also ordered
an election to be held at some convenient place within said city
limits so that the legally qualified property tax paying voters
residing in the territory contiguous to said city of Corpus Christi
and proposed to be annexed might appear and cast their vote for
the purpose of determining whether a majority of the legally
qualified property tax paying voters residing in said territory
proposed to be annexed favored the annexation of said territory
proposed to be annexed, which election was ordered to be held
on the 21st day of Decembers 1944; and
WHEREAS, on the 21st day of December, 1944, said else -
tion was duly and legally held as provided in said Ordinance
and as provided by law governing the matter of holding said
election after proper and legal notice of the same had been given,
and the returns of said election have been filed in the office
of the City Secretary . and with the City Council of the city of
Corpus Christi, Texas, which returns were duly and properly can-
vassed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the city of
Corpus Christi held on the 26th day of December, 1944, at which
canvass it was found and determined that there were cast at
said election 439 votes as follows:
276 votes for annexation
463 votes against annexation
and the City Council thereupon declared the results of said else-
tion to be that a majority of the legally qualified tax paying
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- voters residing within the territorial limits of the territory
proposed to be annexed and admitted to the city of Corpus
Christi votiig at said election had voted in favor of annexing
the said territory and admitting the said territory tothe city
of Corpus Christi, and the said City Council, by Ordinance, de-
clared that the proposition for annexation of said territory
and assumption of the bonded indebtedness and flat rates of
said territory by the city of Corpus Christi and admission of
said territory in to the city of Corpus Christi was sustained
by a majority of the legally qualified tax paying Voters re-
siding within the said territory voting at said election; and
WHEREAS, on the 28th day of December, 1944, said elec-
tion within the territorial limits of the city of Corpus Christi,
Texas, submitting the question of the annexation of said terri-
tory so proposed to he annexed and the assumption of all bonded
indebtedness and flat rates owing to said Improvement District
on the said territory, to the legally qualified property tax ,
paying voters residing within the territoriallmits . of the city
of Corpus Christi,, was duly and legally held as provided in said
order according to the Ordinances and Charter of the city of
Corpus Christi, Texas and the Statutes of the State of Texas re-
garding such elections; and
WHEREAS, the returns of said election hold on the 28th
day of December, 1944 were properly and legally made to the City
Council of the city of Corpus Christi, and such returns were
duly and legally canvassed at a special meeting of the said City
Council of the city of Corpus Christi on the 29th day of December,
1944, at which canvass it was found and determined that there
were cast at said election 406 votes as follows:
401 votes for annexation of said territory
to the city of Corpus Christi
5 votes against annexation of said terri-
tory to the city of Corpus Christi
and the City Council thereupon, at the time of said canvass, de-
clared the results of said election-to be that a majority of the
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legally qualifiad tax paying voters residing witain the territorial' liniia of
the City of Corpus i.iaristi voting at s aiid el-!"i'au, had --d is f-.r of
anon of acid proposed territory here4ru.ft-r ddscribed to the City of GOrPl-
'Chriati, and co admit same to the City ^_f Corpus ❑ud the as ptian
the ci ",-,U6 of -11 bonded in,�.12-1',d- an, 2�at rates c,,da,;
to such 7,,c.ter j-j:,.-ont District In the territory to be arnie:,-ed, and the
and of a tzx o.. all ; rc-,e.-ty ,ithin the oity 'Lrutz sufficient
to pay off said bonded lnuelbt.drcsz and flat rates, and
7,17�2-U, the City Council doens it to be to 'one boat
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election eras '-1-; "r a' Z-,d '0-- admitted ane received int. t1w pit;-
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THENCE in a Southwesterly direction with the North-
west line of said Lot 5, Section 14, to its West corner;
THENCE with the Southwestern boundary line of said
Lot #15, Section 14 to its South corner;
THENCE with the hutheast boundary line of Lot 51
Section 14, in a Northeasterly direction to its inter-
section with the Southwestern boundary line of Section L5
of the Flour Bluff and Encinal Farm and Garden Tracts;
THENCE with the Southwestern boundary line of said
Section 15, and Section 16 in a Southeasterly direction
to the Western shoreline of Oso Creek at mean lore tide;
THENCE in a Northeasterly direction with the meanders
of the Western shoreline of 0sc Creek to the most Easterly
point of said Western shoreline of said Oso Creek at or
near its intersection with the shoreline of Corpus Christi
Bay at the mouth of the creek sometimes called the
Blind Oso;
THENCE due North one mile;.
THENCE in a Northwesterly direction to the most
Easterly Southeast corner of the boundary line of the
city of Corpus Christi as of September 159 1944;
THENCE with the meanders of the Southeast boundary
line of the city of Corpus Christi in a Westerly direction
to an intersection with the shoreline of Corpus Christi
Bay and the North line of Louisiana Street, which is the
most Northerly corner of Nueces County Water Improvement
District No. 1;
THENCE in a Southwesterly direction with the city limits
and the boundary line of said Water Improvement District
to the center line of Santa Fe Street;
THENCE Southeasterly along the center line of Santa
Fe street to its intersection with the center line of
Chamberlain Street as shown on the recorded map of Port
Aransas Cliffs Addition;
THENCE along the center line of Chamberlin Street
in a Southwesterly direction to its intersection with
the East line of Austin Street;
THENCE in a Southeasterly direction to the place of
beginning.
It is the intent of these field notes to include all
of Nueces County Water Improvement District No. 1, as
established by the aforesaid Act, and a portion of Capus
Christi Bay adjacent thereto, and a strip of land being
the South half of Chamberlin Street, as shown on the re-
corded map of Port Aransas Cliffs Addition between the
center line of Santa Fe Street and the East line of
Austin Street,
be:.and the same is hereby received and admitted in to the city of
Corpus Christi, Texas, and 'annexed to the city of Corpus Christie
Texas, as an integral part thereof, and said territory shall
hereafter be a part of the city of Corpus Christi,Texas, sub-
ject to the laws of the State of Texas, the City Charter, and ordinances d'
the city of Corpus Christi, and the ordinances, resolutions and
motions of the city of Corpus Christi, Texas heretofore adopted
and which may hereafter be adopted, to all intents and purposes
as the present city of Corpus Christi, and subject to all of the
same rights, privileges and burdens of the present city of Corpus
Christi.
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SECTION 2 - The City Council declares that the area
above described and which was taken in to the city of Corpus Christ'
Texas by this ordinance is exactly the same territory as was
described in the Petition of Willard Perkins and 437 others
for the admission of said territory in to said city.
SECTION 3 - The fact that it is i.mportsnt to Lhe residents
of tbe= territory - proposed to be amexed and to the residents of the City of
Corpus Christi that an mediate record, be made of the results of the elsc-
tien held December 21, 19q 4, so that adequate provision may be made pending
the annexation of aaid territory creating a public emergency and an imperat've
public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule rroviding 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 several meetings
of the City Cow-oil, and the Mayor having declared that such public emergency
and imperative necessity exist, and having requested that said Charter rule
be suspended a,d that this Ordinance take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after its passage, IT.IS, ACCORDI?GLY, SO 0
FAS,.uD All- APPROVED on this day of�, A. D.
MMR. City of Corpus C_sisti, Texas
ATTEST.
City Secrets
ArPROVGD AS TC lZGAL FORK:
Gi,ty Att crney
Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO THE ME103ELS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency
clause of the foregoing Ordinance, a public emergency and
imperative necessity exist for the suspension 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 several meet-
ings of the City Councils I, therefore, hereby request that
you suspend such Charter rule or requirement and pass this
Ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the
present meetings of the City Council.
Respectfully,
er
M&YOR, Uity of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following votes
A. C. McCaughan
Jos. Mireur
Ed. P. Williams
D. A. Segrest
B. G. Moffett
The above Ordinance was passed by the
Poll ing vote:
A. C. McCaughan
Jos. Mireur
Ed. P. William&
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D. A. Segrest
B. G. Moffett
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