HomeMy WebLinkAbout03243 RES - 04/08/1952,��2
A RESOLUTION
SETTING ASIDE AND DESIGNATING APPROXIMATELY TWENTY
(20) ACRES OF CITY OWNED PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE
SANITARY FILL ON GOLLIHAR ROAD, AS MORE PARTICULARLY
DESCRIBED HEREIN, TO BE USED AS A PARK SITE, WITH THE
SANITARY DIVISION RESERVING PRIOR RIGHTS ON THE UNUSED
PORTION (APPROXIMATELY FIVE (5) ACRES) FOR SANITARY
FILL PURPOSES; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, A CERTAIN PORTION OF THE SANITARY FILL ON GOLLIHAR ROAD IS
SUITABLE FOR PARK AND RECREATION PURPOSES; AND
WHEREAS, IT IS DESIRABLE TO IMPROVE THE SAME AS A PARK AND RECREATION
AREA AND TO USE FOR SUCH IMPROVEMENTS SUCH APPROPRIATED FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR
PERMANENT PARK IMPROVEMENTS;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: THAT APPROXIMATELY TWENTY (20) ACRES OF CITY OWNED PROPERTY
KNOWN AS THE SANITARY FILL ON GOLLIHAR ROAD, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
SITUATED IN NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, AND BEING THE NORTHWEST
ONE -HALF (1/2) OF LOT NO. NINE (9)1 SECTION °B", PAISLEY'S
SUBDIVISION OF THE HOFFMAN TRACT, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS,
MADE BY C. F. H. V BLUCHER, NOVEMBER 1896, AS SHOWN BY MAP
THEREOF RECORDED IN VOL. A, PAGE 28, OF THE NUECES COUNTY
MAP RECORDS, CONTAINING TWENTY (20) ACRES OF LAND MORE
PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS, AS FOLLOWS,
TO -WIT:
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BEGINNING AT THE WEST CORNER OF LOT -No. NINE (9), SECTION
B, WHICH IS ALSO THE COMMON CORNER OOLOTS NOS. 9, 10, 15
AND 16, IN SECTION B, OF PAISLEYS SUBDIVISION OF THE
HOFFMAN TRACT, FOR THE WEST CORNER OF THIS TRACT;
THENCE NORTH 280 20' EAST WITH THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN
LOTS NOS. 9 AND 10, IN SECTION B, 1320 FEET TO A POINT
WHICH IS THEIR COMMON CORNER, THE NORTH CORNER OF THIS
TRACT;
THENCE SOUTH 61° 4Or EAST WITH THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN
LOTS NOS. 8 AND 9 IN SAID SECTION B, 660 FEET, MORE OR LESS,
THE NORTH CORNER OF THAT PART OF SAID LOT NO. 9, SECTION B,
HERETOFORE CONVEYED BY GRANTORS HEREIN TO W. BYRD HARRIS BY
DEED DATED OCTOBER 30, 1937, AND NOW OR RECORD IN VOLUME
235, PAGE 208, NUECES COUNTY DEED RECORD, THE EAST CORNER
OF THIS TRACT;
THENCE SOUTH 28° 201 WEST ALONG THE NORTHWEST BOUNDARY
LINE OF SAID W. BYRD HARRIS TRACT A DISTANCE OF 1320 FEET
TO A POINT IN THE SOUTHWEST BOUNDARY LINE OF LOT 9,.
SECTION B, AND THE WEST CORNER OF SAID W. BYRD HARRIS
TRACT, THE SOUTH CORNER OF THIS TRACT;
THENCE NORTH 61° 4ol WEST WITH THE SOUTHWEST BOUNDARY LINE
OF SAID LOT N0. 9, SECTION B, 660 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO
THE PLACE OF BEGINNING;
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED BY JAMES W. MCCARTY AND
WIFE, LUCY M. MCCARTY, TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
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BY DEED DATED JULY 15, 1942, WHICH WAS FILED FOR RECORD
IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS,
ON JULY 16, 1952, AT 1:31 P.M.,
BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY DESIGNATED AS PARK AREA TO BE IMPROVED, USED, MAINTAINED
AND CONTROLLED AS PART OF THE PARK AND RECREATION PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI FOR THE USE OF THE PUBLIC, WITH THE RESERVATION BY THE SANITARY DIVISION
OF PRIOR RIGHTS ON THE UNUSED PORTION (APPROXIMATELY FIVE (5) ACRES) FOR SANITARY
FILL PURPOSES.
SECTION 3: THE FACT THAT THE IMPROVEMENTS SHOULD BE COMMENCED AS SOON
AS PRACTICAL IN THE AREA HEREIN DESIGNATED AS PARK AND RECREATION AREA, AND THAT
IT IS NECESSARY THAT SUCH DESIGNATION BE MADE AS A DEDICATION OF SAID PROPERTY FOR
THE USE OF THE PUBLIC AS PARK AND RECREATION AREA CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND
IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THAT CERTAIN CHARTER RULE
THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRO-
DUCTION 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, REQUESTING THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE
BE SUSPENDED AND THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCTED AND
TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS
ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE Q �?" DAYOF , 0 1952•
MAYOR
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CITY SECRETARY
APPRO ED AS TO PEGAL FORM:
CITY ATTORN
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Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen-
sion 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.
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Respectfully,
Jack DeForrest
MAYOR
Sydney E. Herndon
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by
the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
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Jack DeForrest
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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Frank E. Williamson
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The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson