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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI TO DO ALL THINGS REQUISITE TO THE
ACQUISITION OF THAT CERTAIN LAND OWNED BY
DAVID ZWEIG NEEDED.FOR THE EXTENSION OF
P AVENUE EASTWARD FROM BROADWAY TO SHORE-
LINE DRIVE AND TO EXECUTE SUCH.INSTRUMENTS
INCIDENT THERETO; APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF
$44,888.35 TO BE PAID OR EXPENDED IN SUCH
ACQUISITION, THE SUM.OF W4,4W.85 AS THE
PURCHASE PRICE OF SUCH LAND TO BE HELD IN
TOWIrTs ACCORDANCE WITH PROCEDURE PRESCRIB-
HE LANE OF EMINENT DOMAIN, THE SUM OF
$228.80 TO COVER USED AGAINST
THE CITY IN CONDEMNA.M PROCEED1RGS AGAINST
ZWEIG, THE SUM OF TION TO
THE CORPUS CHRISTI REAL ESTATE BOARD FOR ITS
AP , FUR CESSARY
AS TITLE EXPENSES ,ETC; PROVIDING FOR THE PAY -
MENT,OF SUCH AMOUNTS FROM FUND.NO. 296 IMFROVE-
MENT BONDS 1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND STREET
PROVMENTS); AND LARING AN
EMERGENCY-
WHEREAS, It is deemed necessary that Park Avenue
be extended eastward to Shoreline Drive; and
WHEREAS, There is needed the sum of $4,4,888.35 to
purchase the right- of-way needed and to expend for costs inci-
dental and requisite thereto; and
WHEREAS, There are sufficient funds in Fund No.
296 Improvement Bonds 1950 Construction Fund (Street Improve-
ments) which are now uneneumbered and which funds are now avail-
able for this purpose, to cover the expenditure as stated; and
WHEREAS, The Proceedings for acquiring the said right-
of-way have been instituted and prosecuted through the filing of
a petition with the County Judge, the appointment of commissioners,
hearings before sd oommissioners, and the filing of the findings
of said commissioners, and it now being necessary to deposit in
escrow the amount entered as the finding of said commissioners in
the sum of $44,488.651
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI=
SECTION I. That the City Manager is hereby authorized
and directed to proceed with the acquisition of said land as stated
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for the purpose of the extension of Park Avenue eastward from
Broadway to Shoreline Drive, and more partioularly described
as follows:
TRACT I
BEGINNING At a point on the east property
line of South Broadway at the intersection of
the south line of Park Avenue extended with said
east property line of South Broadway for the
PLACE OF BEGINNING;
THENCE North 1 degree 37+ 30" W 80.72 feet
for a oorner;
THENCE North 80 degrees 421 30" E 1911.57
feet for a corner;
THENCE South 10 degrees 581 30" W 78.15
feet for an inside corner;
THENCE South 2 degrees 261 50" W 7.13 feet
for a corner;
THENCE South 80 degrees 421 30" W 176.82
feet to the PLACE OF BEGINNING;
said area comprising approximately 1L6823 square feet;
TRACT II
BEGINNING At a point on the east property line
of Ocean Drive (sometimes known as Water Street)
at a point where the south boundary line of Park
Avenue extended eastward would intersect with said
east property line of Ocean Drive for the PLACE OF
BEGINNING;
THENCE North 10 degrees 58t 30" E 85.28 feet
for a corner;
THENCE North 80 degrees L12' 30" E 213.20 feet
fors. corner;
THENCE South 10 degrees 58' 30" W 85.28 feet
for a corner;
THENCE South 80 degrees 112+ 30" W 213.20 feet
to the PLACE OF BEGINNING;
said area comprising approximately 17,056 square feet.
SECTION II. That there is hereby appropriated from the
unappropriated money in Fund No. 296 Improvement Bonds 1950 Con -
struotion Fund (Street Improvements) the sum of $01,888.35 to be
used for the purpose of acquiring said land, including the sum
now to be deposited in escrow in accordance with the procedure
proscribed by the Law of Eminent Domain, the amount necessary to
discharge the costs assessed against the City in said Condemna-
tion Proceedings against David Zweig, the renumeration to the
Corpus Christi Real Estate Board in full for services in the ap-
praisal made at the instance of and for the benefit of the City,
in connection with the acquisition, and for such other additional
amounts for title expenses and expenses contingent thereto.
SECTION III. The necessity for providing adequate streets
within the City, and in order to provide for the safety of the citi-
zone and prevent traffic hazards creates a public emergency and im-
perative public necessity requiring the suspension 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
shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and
the Mayor having declared that such public emergency and imperative
public necessity exist, 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 and be in full force
and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO OR-
DAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED This the 23rd day of May, A.D. 1950-
MAY
A = The City of Corpus Chriati, Texas
City SSsor etary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
Citk A=ornsy
Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO TSE MWERS 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,
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
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George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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ft 23, 1950 , 1949
I certify to the City Council that the money required
for the contract, agreement, obligation, or expenditure contemplated
in the above and foregoing Ordinance is in the Treasury of the City
of Corpus Christi to the credit of Fund Nook IWROV MENT BONDS 1950
(STREhT UTROVEMMSQ
t'0XSTRACTInu Van/ from which it is proposed to be drawn,
and such money is not appropriated for any other purposes
Di r of Finance