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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING CONDEI,INATION' PROCEEDINGS BY THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI TO CONDEMN CERTAIN REAL ESTATE IN
NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, OWNED UY L. L. '.WOODMAN SR.
TRUSTEE, ARID FRANK EVANS FOR USE IN THE PROJECT OF
COhdSTRUCTIGN OF TULE LAKE CHANNEL CROSSING BiRIDGE,
WHICH LAND IS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN;
DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS
TO CARRY OUT THE INTENTIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE: AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, THE CITY OF CORPUS CHtlISTI INTENDS TO CONSTRUCT A COM—
5INATION RAIL AND HIGHWAY BRIDGE ACROSS THE SHIP CHANNEL KNOWN AS THE TULE
LAKE CHANNEL CROSSING BRIDGE, TOGETHER WITH APPROACHES THERETO, AND IT IS
NECESSARY TO ACQUIPiE THE HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY IN ORDER FOR
THE CITY TO COMPLETE SAID PROJECT, SAID PROPERTY BEING, DES ,t I3ED AS FOLLOWS:
A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING 2.8 ACRES MORE
OR LESS NORTH AND WEST OF AND ADJACENT TO THECORPUS
CHRISTI COUNTRY CLUE PROPERTY, MORE PARTICULARLY
DESCRIBED III A DEED DATED DECEMBER 16, 1954, OF
RECORD IN VOLUME 678', PAGE 161 OF THE DEED RECORDS
OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS;
AND
WHEBEAS, THE RECORD TITLE OF SAID PROPERTY APPEARS TO BE IN L. L.
WOODMAN, Svr., TRUSTEE, AND F;:A:dl( EVANS, BOTH OF WHOM RESIDE IN NUECES COUNTY,
TEXAS; AND
WHEREAS, THE CITY OF (CORPUS CHRISTI 15 UNABLE TO ARRIVE AT AN
AGREEMENT WITH SAID OWNERS AS TO THE PRICE AND VALUE OF SAID LAND AND IT
BECOMES EXPEDIENT THAT SAID PROPERTY BE CONDEMNED BY THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS, FOR SAID PUBLIC PURPOSE:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAIIIED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. IN CONFORMITY WITH THE PREMISES, AND IN ACCORDANCE
WITH CEi4TAIN PROVISIOVIS OF THE CITY CHARTER,, THE SAID CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, DOES HE`:EDY ORDER THE CONDEMNATION OF A RIGHT OF WAY AND EASEMENT IN,
ACROSS, ON, AND OVE' CERTAIN REAL ESTATE IM NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, AND DESCRIBED
AS FOLLOWS:
A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING 2.8 ACRES MORE
OR LESS NORTH AND WEST OF AND ADJACENT TO THE CORPUS
CHRISTI COUNTRY CLUB PROPERTY, MORE PAPTICULARLY
DESCRIBED IN A DEED DATED DECEMBER 16, 1954; OF
RECORD IN VOLUME 678, PAGE 161 OF THE DEED RECORDS
OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS.
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SECTION 2. THE CITY ATTORNEY IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO
INSTITUTE CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST SAID PROPERTY AND ALL THE PERSONS
WHO MIGHT HAVE AN INTEREST THEREIN AND TO PROCEED WITH SAID CONDEMNATION SUIT
TO ITS CONCLUSIONS WITH THE INTENTION IN 14IND OF OBTAINING RIGHT OF WAY TO
SAID PROPERTY FOIt THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING THE TULE LAKE CHANNEL CROSSING
DRIDGE.
SECTION 3. THE PUBLIC IMPORTANCE OF THIS ORDINANCE AND THE NECESSITY
FOR THE CITY TO GAIN POSSESSION AND TITLE OF AND TO THE RIGHT OF WAY OF THE
NEAL PROPERTY HEi',EINEEFO,YE SET OUT SO THAT A BRIDGE MAY BE CONSTRUCTED OVER
THE TULE LAKE CHANNEL, CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND PUBLIC IMPERATIVE NECESSITY
REQUIi',ING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE PROVIDING NO ORDINANCE Of', RESOLUTION
SHALL DE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE
OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT TH'"'EE REGULAiR. MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUIJCIL2 AND
THE MIAYOR° FIAV114G DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING RE-
QUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF SAID CHANTER -,ULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED
FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE TAKE EFFECT
AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT F P1 AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE IT IS ACCORDINGLY
PASJEiJ AND APPROVED, THIS THE DAY OF JANUARY, 1956.
MlAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CITY SI CAET ",Y
APPROVED All TO LEGAL FORM/
JANUARY LLB 1J56:
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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 emergeney and imperative eecessity 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,
MAY
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter Rule was suspended by the following vote:
Farrell D. Smith
Minor Culli
W. J. Roberts
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B. E. Bigler_
Manuel P. Maldonado
The.above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Farrell D. Smith
T,t,
Minor
Culli
W. J.
Roberts
B, E.
Bigler_
Manuel
P. Maldonado
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