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Home My WebLink About01813 ORD - 07/10/1945i AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAFFIC ON MESQUITE, PEOPLES, SCRATZEL, STARR, LAWRENCE, NORTH BROADWAY, EAST PORTION OF . LEOPARD, ANTELOPE, UPPER NORTH BROADWAY, LONER BROADWAY, EAST DRIVE OF UPPER NORTH BROADWAY; DES - IGNATING CERTAI2I STREETS AS ONE WAY STREETS; REGU- LATING TRAFFIC ON THE RAMP EXTENDING FROM UPPER NORTH BROADWAY TO LOWER NORTH BROADWAY; FIXING THE - PENALTY FOR VIOLATICII AB DECLaRI11G Ali EMERGENCY. Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person operating a vehicle of any description to make a left turn at the following street intersections in the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, to -wit: Mesquite Street and Peoples Street, Mosquito Street and Schatzel Street, Mesquite Street and Starr Street, Mesquite Street and Lawrence Street, Chaparral Street and Peoples Street, Chaparral Street and Schatzel Street, Chaparral Street and Starr Street. - Section 2. All that portion of Lawrence Street from the intersection of Lawrence Street and Lower North Broadway to water Street is hereby declared to be a one -way street and it shall be devoted to, the exclusive, use, of traffic traveling in an easterly -- _ direction; and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive or operate any vehicle along the said portion of Lawrence Street while traveling in a westerly direction. _All that portion of Schatzel Street situated between Lower North Broadway and 'Hater Street is hereby declared to be a one -way street and shall be devoted to the exclusive use of traf- fie traveling in an easterly direction;- and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive or operate any vehicle on or along the said portion of Schatzel Street while traveling in a westerly direction. All that portion of Peoples Street situated between Lower North Broadway and Water Street is hereby declared to be a one -way street and shall be devoted to the exclusive use of traf- fie traveling in a westerly direction; and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive or operate any vehicle on or along that portion of Peoples Street while traveling in an easterly direction. 1$13 All that portion of Antelope Street from Upper North Broadway to North Carancahue is hereby declared to be a one- way street and shall be devoted to the exclusive use of traffic traveling in a westerly direction; and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive or operate a vehicle on or along the said portion of Antelope Street while traveling in an easterly direction. All that portion of the east drive of Upper North ' Broadway from the intersection of said east drive with Antelope Street extended east to the intersection of said east drive with Buffalo Street extended east is hereby declared to be a one -way street and shall be devoted to the exclusive use of traffic traveling in a northerly direction; and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive or operate any vehicle on or along said portion of the cast drive of Upper North Broadway while traveling in a southerly direction. All that portion of Upper North Broadway from the µ intersection of Upper North'Broodway Street with Buffalo Street _ to the intersection of Upper North Broadway with Mesquite Street at Coopers Alley is hereby declared to be a one -way street and shall be devoted to the exclusive use of traffic traveling in a southerly direction; and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive or operate any vehicle on or along said por- tion of Upper North Broadway while traveling in a northerly di- 4 rection. All that portion of South Broadway south from Kinney Avenue to Park Avenue is hereby declared to be a one -way street and shall be devoted to the exclusive use of traffic traveling in a southerly direction; and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive or operate ary vehicle on or along said portion of South Broadway Street while traveling in a northerly direction. All that portion of Loner North Broadway from Lawrence Street to Schstzel Street is hereby declared to be a one -way street and it shall be devoted to the exclusive use of traffic traveling in a northerly direction; and it shall be unlawful for the driver of my vehicle to drive or operate any vehicle along the said portion of Lower North Broad- way while traveling in a southerly direction. Section 3. The following rules and regulations shall regulate traffic on the ramps extending from Upper North Broadway to Lower North Broadway, , (a) Traffic on the ramp e:tending from the Peoples Street In- tersection of Lower North Broadway in a northwesterly direction up the Bluff into Antelope Street shall proceed only in a northwesterly direction, and it shall be unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle on said ramp going in a southeasterly direction. (b) Traffic on the portion of the ramp extending from Leopard Street in a southeasterly direction into Lawrence Street shall proceed only in a southeasterly direction; and it shall be unlawful :Car any person to operate a vehicle on said portion of the ramp in a northwesterly direc- tion. (c) Traffic proceeding from Leopard Street on that portien of ` the ramp extending in a northeasterly direction may proceed down said ramp to Schatzel Street. (d) Vehicles proceeding south on Lower Broadway at the Peoples Street intersection may make a right oblique turn up the rmp to Leopard Street or make a left turn and go down Schatzel Street; but no person operating a vehicle proceeding South on Lower Broadway at the Peoples Street intersection shall make a right turn and go up the ramp to Antelope Street. Section 4- Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance or fail to comply with the rules and regulations herein provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction there- of, shall be fined in any sum not more than Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars. Section 5• If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase or provision of this Ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or held unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of this Ordinance as a whole or any part or provision thereof other than the part so decided to be invalid or unconstitutional. Section 6.. The fact that the traffic along the above —en- tioned streets is congested at the present time and that the enactment of the foregoing rules and regulations will protect the security and safeguard the welfare of the public creating a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule providing 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 Council, and the Mayor having declared that such public emergency and imperative necessity exist, and having requested that said Charter rule be suspended and that this Ordinance take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS, ACCORDINGLY, SO ORDAINED. l 'PASSED AND APPR00ED ON this 1,16 day o£A:2�—A. D., 1945- DAAYOR c orpus C isti, exas ATTEST: City Secretary APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORMS Rod4gjelT hompson Acting City Attorney Corpus Christi, Texas . 1945 TO THE TIERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI Corpus Christi. Texas Gentlemen3 For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing Ordinance, a public emergency and an 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 introduoed, and that such Ordinance or Resolution shall beg read at three several meetings of the City Council, I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this Ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, yor, i Corpus Christi, as The Charter rule was suspended by the follosing voter Roy L. Self�� B. G. Moffett R. R. Rambo r�•/riYl_ N. C. Book N. B. Marriott The above Ordinance was passed by the follaffing vote= -Roy L. Self H. G. Moffett R. R. Rambo N. C. Beek N. H. Marriott