HomeMy WebLinkAbout03334 ORD - 10/14/1952AN ORDINANCE
CLOSING AND ABANDONING THE ALLEYWAY IN BLOCK 1303,
FITCHUE PLACE, LYING TO THE SOUTH, AND BEING THAT
PORTION THEREOF APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET SOUTH OF THE
SOUTH PROPERTY LINE OF MCKENZIE STREET AND EXTENDING
SOUTHWARD TO AYERS STREET, AND BEING IN THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI HAS BEEN
PETITIONED TO CLOSE THE ALLEYWAY IN BLOCK 1303, FITCHUE PLACE, AN ADDITION
TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; AND
WHEREAS, NOTICE OF THE PROPOSED ALLEY CLOSING WAS GIVEN BY PUBLI-
CATION, AND BY MAILING TO THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS OF ALL OWNERS, OF PROPERTY
ABUTTING SAID ALLEYWAY AND WITHIN 1150 FEET THEREFROM, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
PROVISIONS OF SECTION 6 OF ARTICLE 11 OF THE CITY CHARTER; AND
WHEREAS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH NOTICE, PUBLIC HEARING WAS HAD
ON THE 16TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1952, AT 2:00 O'CLOCK P.M., IN THE CITY COUN-
CIL CHAMBER OF THE CITY HALL, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AT WHICH TIME AND PLACE
ALL PERSONS AND PARTIES INTERESTED AND WISHING TO APPEAR WERE HEARD, AND THE
MATTER AT THE CLOSE OF THE HEARING WAS TAKEN UNDER ADVISEMENT FOR DECISION,
WHICH DECISION WAS ANNOUNCED ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1952, AT A SPECIAL COUCIL MEET-
ING, AND WAS THAT THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE, WELFARE AND NECESSITY WOULD BE BET-
BER SERVED BY THE CLOSING OF THAT PORTION OF SAID ALLEYWAY LYING TO THE SOUTH,
AND BEING THAT PORTION APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET SOUTH OF THE SOUTH PROPERTY LINE
OF MCKENZIE STREET AND EXTENDING SOUTHWARD TO AYERS STREET, AND BEING THAT POR-
TION WHICH HAS BEEN OBSTRUCTED FOR A PERIOD OF AROUND TWENTY -THREE YEARS; SAID
ALLEYWAY CONTAINING NO UTILITIES THEREIN: ,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THE FOLLOWING PORTION OF AN ALLEYWAY IN BLOCK 1313,
FITCHUE PLACE, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TO -W IT:
THAT PORTION OF BLOCK 1303, FI•TCHUE PLACE, IN THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, LYING TO THE SOUTH, AND BEING THAT
PORTION APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET SOUTH OF THE SOUTH PROPERTY
LINE OF MCKENZIE STREET AND EXTENDING SOUTHWARD TO AYERS
STREET,
BE, AND THE SAME IS HEREBY, C40SED AND THE DEDICATION THEREOF IS HEREBY VA-
CATED.
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SECTION 2. THAT THE FACT THAT THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PORTION OF
SAID ALLEYWAY, HAVING BEEN OBSTRUCTED FOR TWENTY -THREE YEARS OR MORES AND
HAVING BUILT UPI SHOULD BE CLOSED IMMEDIATELY TO BETTER SERVE PUBLIC WEL-
FARE, CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF SUCH CHARTER RULE
THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS
INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEV-
ERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMER-
GENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF SAID CHARTER
RULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUC-
TION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT ,F /ROM AND AFTER ITS PASS -
AGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE/7`21?�AY OF OCTOBER, A.
D. 1952.
TTEST: MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO EGAL FORM:
CITY ATTbRNtY
Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO TUE 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,
Respectfully,
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson G
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Sydney E. Herndon (_
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson
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