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AN ORDINANCE
DECLARING THE FINDING OF THE CITY COUNCIL,
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI THAT OIL AND
GAS EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT ON THE LAND
KNOWN AS CLIFF MAUS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT WILL
NOT INTERFERE WITH THE USE OF SAID LAND FOR
AIRPORT PURPOSES, WHICH LAND IS FULLY DESCRIB-
ED HEREIN; ABANDONING SAID LAND FOR USE AS A
MUNICIPAL AIRPORT' AS TO TEN LANDNOT PRESENTLY
BEING USED FOR AVIATIONPURPOSES, SAID ABANDON-
MENT TO BE ONLY FOR THE PURPOSES OF EXPLORA-
TION DEVELOPMENT, AND PRODUCTION OF OIL, GAS
A]iDIOR OTHER MINERALS UNDER THAT CERTAIN LEASE
DATED THE 20th DAY OF September , 1950•
AND DECLAMM -AN EME
WHEREASs The City of Corpus Christi, as lesser, desires
to execute an oil and gas lease on the land known as Cliff Maus
Airport; and
MOREAS, The Civil Aeronautics Authority has advised
the City of Corpus Christi that exploration and development of
said land for oil and gas may be had without interfering with
the use of said land for airport purposes;AND
YHEREAS, The Civil Aeronautics Authoriity has advised
the City of Corpus Christi that, in order to insure that the ex�
ploration for and development of oil and gas on said land does
not and cannot interfere with the use of said land for airport
purposes, any oil and gas lease executed thereon must contain the
following provisionst
"(1) It is strictly understood that the above
described land and this oil and gas lease are subject
in all things to that certain agreement between the
lessor hereof and the United States of America, known
as the AP-4 Agreement or Resolution, adopted and ap.
proved by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, on August 7, 1941.
"(2) It is further expreasly agreed by the parties
hereto that no structure or obstruction, temporary or
otherwise, shall be erected within 250 feet perpendicular
distance from and on each side of the center line of all
runways existing or proposed, and their extensions to the
airport boundaries, nor within 125 feet perpendicular dia-
tance from and on each side of the center line of all taxi-
ways, nor within 200 feet of MW buildings or parking aprons.
"(3) Also it is agreed, that in the event a well
is drilled on the leased area then such drilling operations
shall be prosecuted continuously until same results in
Production or in a dry hole. All temporary structures used
in such drilling operations shall be painted and lighted
in such manner as is prescribed by the Civil Aeronautics
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Administration, and further provided that no permanent
structures of aqy kind used in the development, produc-
tion or transportation of oil, gas and other minerals
shall be placed on the above described land in such
manner as to interfere with or introduce hazard to the
operation of aircraft.
"(k) Further, it is agreed that in the event
any drilling operations for oil, gas or other minerals
result in production, lessee, at his own expense, shall
immedi.ateV remove all temporary structures and place
all semi-permanent or permanent equipment in such manner
as will not interfere with or introduce any hazard to the
operation of aircraft, In event such drilling operations
result in a dry hole, then lessee shall at his own ex-
pense immediately remove all temporary structures used in
such operation and level the area so that it may be safely
used for landing or taxiing aircraft.9
WHEREAS, The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi
has duly determined that oil and gas exploration and development
on said land according to the laws of the State of Texas, the rules
and regulations of its administrative bodies, the ordinances of
this City, and the requirements of the Civil Aeronautics Authority
(hereinabove set forth), will not interfere with the use of said
land for airport purposes, and
WBEBEAS, The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi
has duly determined that the needs of the City of Corpus Christi
do not require that theentire tract of land, hereinabove described
and presently being used for airport purposes remain free and clear
of reasonable exploration for and development of oil and gas, and
that the airport needs of the City of Corpus Christi will be net
and efficiently served even though said land be leased for oil and
gas exploration and development,
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITT of CORPUS CHMTI, TEAS:
SECTION 1. That so much of the land known as Cliff
Maus Municipal Airport, lying and being situated in Nueces County,
Texas, and more particularly described as followss
BEGINNING At a point in the South boundary line
of the old Brownsville Road said point being the North-
west comer of the Airport Park Subdivision as shown by
map or plat of record in Volume 8, Page 26, of the Map
Records of Nusces County, Texas, for the Northeast cor-
ner of this tract;
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THENCE S 0 deg. 221 W with the Best boundary
line of said Airport Park.Subdivision a distance of
35414.57 feet to a point for a corner of this tract;
THENCE S 46 deg. 181 E a distance of 109.41
feet to a point for a corner of this tract, said point
being the most Southerly corner of the said Airport
Park Subdivision;
THENCE S 59 deg. 491 E a distance of 1557.05
feet to a point in the center line of Rabbit Run Road
for a corner of this tract;
THENCE S 29 deg. 271 W with the centerline of
Rabbit Run Road a distance of 881.80 feet to a point
for a corner of this tract;
THENCE S 89 deg. 561 W a distance of 1500.00
feet more or less to a point for a corner of this tract;
THENCE S 29 deg. 271 E a distance of 280.00 feet
more or less to a point in.the centerline of Horne Road
for a corner of this tract;
THENCE N 60 deg. 331 W with the centerline of
Horne Road a distance of 525.00 feet more or less to a
point for a corner of this tract;
THENCE S 89 deg. 561 W with the South boundary
line of Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 o the Gugenheim and Cohn
Farm Lots, a distance of 4801.90 feet to a point for
a coiner of this tract;
THENCE N 54 deg. 251 E with the Southeast boun-
dary line of Airport Road a distance of 41 4.88 feet to
a point being the point of curve of a circular curve
to the left;.
THENCE with the are of said circular corner,
being also the Southeast boundary line of Airport Road
a distance of 1145.20 feet to a point being the point
of tangent to said curve;
THENCE N 143 deg. 051 E with the Southeast boun-
dary line of said Airport Road a distance of 14700 feet
more or less to a point, the point of curve of a circu.
lar curve to the right, having a radius of 28614.39 and
a central angle of 8 deg..041;
THENCE along said curve, being also the South-
east boundary line of Airport Road, a distance of 547.72
feet more or less to a point in the South boundary line
of Old Brownsville Road,
THENCE N 87 deg. 181 E, 965.78 feet to the PLACE
OF BEGINN]7 ,
Containing 1463.95 acres of land, more or less.
SAVE AND EXCEPT five (5) certain tracts of land
as follows: Being approximately, P. R. Sykes, 6.274
acres; Wm. Singer, 21.95 acres; J. K. Cain# 3.2 acres;
T. Y. Moore, 1.64 acres; and H. D. Countiss, 14.01 acres;
the minerals under which said tracts of land having been
reserved by the grantors in said deed to the City of
Corpus Christi;
as is not now in use for aVlotioj%purposes is hereby abandoned
for use as a municipal airport to the extent necessary, but only
to the extent necessary, for exploration for and development
of oil and gas under an oil and gas lease containing, among
others the following provisions:
"(1) It is strictly understood that the above
described land and this oil and gas lease are subject
in all things to that certain agreement between the
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lessor hereof and the United States of America, known
as the AP-4 Agreement or Resolution, adopted and ap-
proved by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, on August 7, 1941;
"(2) It is further expressly agreed by the parties
hereto that no structure or obstruction, temporary or other-
wise, shall be erected within 250 feet perpendicular dis-
tance from and on each side of the center line of all run-
ways existing or proposed, and their extensions of the air-
port boundaries, nor within 125 feet perpendicular dis-
tance from and on each side of the center line of all taxi-
ways, nor within 200 feet of any buildings or parking aprons;
"(3) Also it is agreed, that in the event a well
is drilled on the leased area then such drilling operations
shall be prosecuted continuously until same results in
production or in a dry hole. All temporary structures used
in such drilling operations shall be painted and lighted in
such manner as is prescribed by the Civil Aeronautics Ad-
ministration, and further provided that no permanent struc-
tures of any kind used in the development, production, or
transportation of oil, gas and other minerals shall be plac-
ed on the above described land in such manner as to inter-
fere with or introduce hazard to the operation of aircraft;
"(4) Further, it is agreed that in the event any
drilling operations for oil, gas or other minerals re-
sult in production, lessee at his own expense shall im-
mediately remove all temporary structures and place all
semi - permanent or permanent equipment in such manner as
will not interfere with or introduce any hazard to the
operation of aircraft. In event such drilling operations
result in a dry hole, then lessee shall at his own expense
immediately remove all temporary structures used in such
operation and level the area so that it may be safely used
for landing or taiding aircraft.
"(5) Lessee shall not, in any event, be required
to drill more than one (1) well per forty (40) acres of
the area retained hereunder.
SECTION 2. That said abandonment shall be only for
the period of such operations as may be conducted under said
lease and amendments thereto and shall not in any way affect the
use of the balance of said airport property for aviation purposes.
SECTION 3. That the need for making applications for
Permit to drill and the necessity for the conducting of operations
under said lease as promptly as possible creates a public emergency
and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of
the Charter role providing that no ordinance or resolution shall
be passed final]y on the date of its introduction and that such
ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of
the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared such emergency
and necessity to exist, having requested the suspension of said
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Charter rule 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
ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This t e 3rd day of Octobers A.D.
7950.
TEE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORMS
UVOY ney
Corpus Christi, Texas
Nil 3 , 1950
TO THE WI ERS OF TM 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,
MUM
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest��"
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon/.,"""
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie '4asserman z2jK
Jack DeForrest �y{
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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