HomeMy WebLinkAbout02529 ORD - 05/31/1949AN ORDINANCE
CLOSING THE EAST 15 FEET AND THE WEST 15 FEET OF
THE WIDTH OF DETTER STREET EXTENDING FROM THE
NORTH LINE OF DODDRIDGE STREET TO A LINE 100 FEET
SOUTH OF AND PARALLEL TO THE SOUTH LINE OF PROCTOR
STREET, ALL IN PORT ARANSAS CLIFFS ADDITION TO TEE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NII„CES COUNTY, TEXAS;
THEREBY REDUCING TEE RIGHT -OF -WAY OF SAID DENVER
STREET FROM ITS PRESENT WIDTH OF 80 FEET TO A
WIDTH OF 50 FEET, AND ORDERING AND DIRECTING TEE
RETURN OF SUCH PROPERTY CLOSED FOP, STREET PURPOSES
TO TEE ,ABUTTING PROPERTY 0IWERS; AND DECLARING AN
EIdERGEIINCY.
VOMEAS, the City Council of the City of Carpus Christi has
been petitioned that a portion of Denver Street hereinetter described
be closed for street purposes; and,
P21EREAS, notice of the proposed closing of said street has been
given by publication and by mail to the last known addresses of all owners
abutting said street and within 450 feet therefrom, in accordance with the
Charter of the City of Corpus Christi as provided for under Article II,
Section 6 thereof; and,
'U]REAS, in accordance with the Notice given as above set out,
a public hearing was held by the City Council of the City of Corpus
Christi at 4 :00 otclock P. y. on the 17th day of play, 1949, in the City
Council Chamber at the City Hall; and,
11N-711EAS, the public welfare, convenience and necessity will be
better served by the closing of such street:
NOW, TrZi EFORE, DE IT ORDAINED DY THE CITY ODUAICIL OF ThE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEF.AS:
SECTION 1. That a portion of Denver Street, described as
follows, to -wit:
The East 15 feet and the West 15 feet of the width
of Denver Street extending from the north line of Dodd -
ridge Street to a line 100 feet south of and parallel to
the south line of Proctor Street, all in Port Aransas
Cliffs Addition to the City of Corpus Christi, Idueces
County, Texas, thereby reducing the right- of-way of
said Denver Street from its present width of 80 feet to
a width of .50 feet,
be and the same is hereby closed as a public street and from public use.
SECTION 2. That the City of Corpus Christi hereby quitclaims
and relinquishes all right, title and interest it may have in and to the
said street described in Section 1 hereof, to the property ovazers abutting
said street.
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SECTION 3. The fact that publio convenience and necessity
iNill be better served by the closing of said street creates a public
emergency and a public imperative necessity requiring the suspensicn of the
Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the
date it is introduced, and that such Ordinance or Resolution shell be read
at three regular meetings of the City Council; and the Mayor, having declared
that such public emergency and imperative necessity exi-st, and having requested
that such Charter rule be suspended, and that this Ordinance be passed finally
on the date of its introduction, and take effect acid be in full force and
effect fro. ar_d after its passage, IT IS ACCORDIil GLY SO ORDADT. -3D.
PASSED APPD APPROVED this ;/ day of Pray, 19+9•
ATTEST:
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City Secretan,
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FOR11-
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO THE P.'4MERS OF THE CITY COMMIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set Yerth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going 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 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,
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
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Jack DeForrest-
Barney Cott
Sidney E. Herndon
George L. Lawman
The above ordinance was passed
by the following vote;
Leslie +7assermsn
Jack DeFar rest
Barney Cott
Sidney $ llerndon
George L: Lormnn
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