HomeMy WebLinkAbout02556 ORD - 07/19/1949AN OHDiNANCE
CLOSING THE MRINGS AND ADOPTING
AND APPROPING THE MAP AND ESTABLISH-
IM BUILDING IBM FOR AGNES STEM,
EXTENDING FROM PORT AM= ON THE WEST
TO TANCAHNA STREET ON THE EAST, DECIAR,
-- ING SAID AGNES STREET OPENED AS SHOWN-
, ON SAID MAP, SAID MAP ATTACHED HERETO
AND MARKED "EXHIBIT A "; AND DECLARING
AN M4MMNCS.
WHEREAS, Notice of the Hearings on the matter of the widening of
Agnes Street and fixing a building line thereon, and opening and extending
same, as to that portion of Agnes Stramt extending from Port Avenue on the
West to Tanoahua Street on the East, all In the City of Corpus Chriati, has
been given by publication and by registered mail to the last ]mown addresses
of all owners abutting said street and withim four hundred and fifty feet
(4500 thereof, and
WH6AEAS, pursuant to said Notice, a Public Hearing was held by the
City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, in accordance with the pro-
visions of Section 6, Article II of the City Charter and in accordance with
the provisions of Article 1105 (a) of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas,
said Hearings being held on the 21st day of June 1949, and the 5th day of
July, 1949, in accordance with said Notices; and recessed until the 12th day
of July, 1949; end,
WHEREAS, it has been determined by the City Council after such Public
Hearings that the said street, Agnes Street, extending from Port Avenue on the
West to Tancahna Street on the East, is necessary and of vital importance to
the proper bgrAling of traffic in and out of the City of Corpus Christi and
in connection with State Highway No. 44; and
WHEMM, the widening of said street necessitates the mediate
establishment of new building Linea that will prevent expensive building
encroachments upon territory that is to be included in the street when widened,
which building or buildings would increase the burden of expense, upon the City
in securing future right- of-way for the street, and
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WMWA.4, the City Engineer of the City of Corpus Christi has prepared
and submitted to Council a Map showing the proposed improvements of said street,
which map has been approved by the City Zoning and Planning Commission and the
State Highway Commission and which Map is attached hereto and marked "Exhibit A ":
NOW, TREBEPORE, HB IT ORDADW BY THE CTTY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI:
SECTION 1. That the building lines for Agnes Street from the East
property line of Port Avenue to the West property line of Tancabua Street,
shown on the Map attached hereto as "Exhibit A " -, be, and they are hereby approv-
ed and adopted as the building lines on said street at the locations shown on
said Map and from and after the date of this Ordinance, building encroaching
upon said lines is forbidden.
SECTION 2. Said Agnes Street is hereby ordered opened and widened as
shown on said Map attached hereto.
SECTION 3. The fact that the public convenience and safety of the
public and the necessity of the people of the City of Corpus Christi require
immediate widening of Agnes Street to alleviate the traffic conditions now
existing thereon, and the fact that the prevention of further erection of
buildings encroaching upon the territory to be included in the thoroughfare
when widened is necessary to save the City from additional burden of expense in
securing the rights -of -way, create a public emergency and an imperative public
necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no
Ordinance or Resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction,
and that said Ordinance or Resolution shall be read at three several meetings
of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such emergency and public
imperative necessity exist, and requested that said Charter rule be suspended
and that this Ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction, and
take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, PT 33
ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this t ' day of J y,/ A. D., 1949.
MA , City of Corpus Christi, Tamft
ATFLST:
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
CiW Att6rney //
Corpus Christi, Texas
1949
TO THE MEMBERS 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 fore-
going 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 introduced, and
that such Ordinance or Resolution shall be 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,
MA OR, City of Carpus Christi.
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wassenasnn
Jack DeForrestJJJJ����,,,,
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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The above Ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForreat
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Barney Cott
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Sydney R. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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