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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02710 ORD - 02/21/1950AN ORDINANCE CLOSING THAT PORTION OF PRICE STREET BETWEEN THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF AYRES STREET AND THE NORTH BOUNDARY LINE OF LEWIS STREET IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, ALL OF SAID STREET AS CLOSED BEING IN TEE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, AND DIRECTING THAT THE SAID CLOSING BE ONLY FOR THE LIMITED PURPOSE OF CLOSING SAID PORTION OF PRICE STREET TO TRAFFIC AND TO THE EXISTENCE AND MAINTEN- ANCE OF SAID STREETIWITH THE EXCEPTION AS SET FORTH HEREIN; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi has been petitioned that a portion of Price Street hereinafter described, be closed for street purposes; and, WHEREAS, Notice of the proposed closing of said street has been given by publication and by mail to the last known address 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 Ar- ticle II, Section 6 thereof; and, WHEREAS, 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 o'clock PM on the 14th day of February, 1950, in the City Council Chamber at the City Hall, and, WHEREAS, the public welfare, safety, convenience and neo- essity will be better served by the closing of certain portions of said street to traffic and to the existence and maintenance of said street; SAVE AND EX- CEPT as a right- of-way for public utility and storm sewer use, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That a portion of Price Street described as follows, to nit: All that portion of Price Street between the South- ern boundary line of Ayres Street and the North boundary line of Lewis Street in the City of Corpus Christi, as shown by map records of record in the office of the County Clerk, Nueces County, Texas, be and 'the same is hereby closed to publio; SAVE AND EXCEPT for the use of the same as an easement for public utilities and storm sewer and drainage purposes, and the dedication thereof is not vacated and the same is here- by retained for all such purposes. -2-710 SECTION 2. That the City of Corpus Christi hereby releases and relinquishes all right, title and interest in or to any of said street described in Section 1 hereof to the property owners abutting said street; SAVE AND EXCEPT the right, title and interest therein as an easement for public utilities, storm sewer, and drainage purposes. SECTION 3. The fact that public convenience and necessity will be better served by the closing of said street as a public thorough- fare creates a public emergency and a public imperative necessity requir- ing the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordin- ance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council; and the Mayor, having declared that such purlio emergency and imperative necessity exist, and having requested that such Charter Rule be suspended and that this Ordinance be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPROVED This day o£ February,A.D. 1950. MAYOR The City of Corpus Christi A � � City Secretary. APPROVED AS TO GAL FORM. ity for Corpus Christi, Texas 7d, a-1 . 1.%�) TO THE XWERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlemen: For the reasons set forth 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, — MAYOR City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following votes Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest Barney Cott Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest Harney Cott Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman Z'7 J D