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AN ORDINANCE
CLOSING A PORTION OF FRANCIS STREET AND WELBORN
STREET IN ROOSEVELT PLACE ADDITION; AUTHORIZING
AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER, FOR AND ON BEHALF
OF THE CITY, TO CONVEY BY QUITCLAIM DEED THE CLOSED
PORTION OF SAID STREETS TO THE ABUT ING PROPERTY
OWNER, MESQUITE STREET CORPORATION UPON CERTAIN
CONDITIONS; AUTHORIZING THE ABANDONMENT OF CERTAIN
PUBLIC UTILI EASY SEMENTS UPON CERTAIN CONDITIONS;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, NOTICE OF THE CLOSING OF ALL THAT PORTION OF
FRANCES STREET AND WELBORN STREET LOCATED WITHIN ROOSEVELT PLACE
ADDITION TD THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, EX-
TENDING FROM THE EAST BOUNDARY OF PORT AVENUE EASTWARD TO THE NORTH-
WEST BOUNDARY OF THE ALLEY ALONG AND ADJACENT TO THE SOUTHEAST BOUNDARY
OF BLOCKS 3 AND 5 IN SAID ROOSEVELT PLACE ADDITION, HAS BEEN GIVEN
BY PUBLICATION AND REGISTERED MAIL TO THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES OF ALL
OWNERS 1A�BUTTING SAID PORTION OF FRANCIS STREET AND WELBORN STREET AND
WITHIN 450 FEET THEREOF, AND THEREAFTER, PURSUANT TO SAID NOTICE,
TO -WIT, ON THE 11TH DAY OF APRIL, 1956, A PUBLIC HEARING WAS HELD
WITH THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY CHARTER; AND
WHEREAS, IT HAS BEEN DULY DETERMINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL,
AFTER SUCH PUBLIC HEARING, THAT SAID PORTIONS OF SAID STREETS ARE NOT
SUITABLE AS LAID OUT FOR SAID PURPOSES, AND THAT IT WILL BE TD THE
ADVANTAGE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO HAVE SAID PORTIONS OF SAID
STREETS CLOSED;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THE FOLLOWING PORTIONS OF FRANCIS AND
WELBORN STREETS IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, BE CL05ED FOR
PUBLIC USE AS FOLLOWS, TO -WIT:
ALL THAT PORTION OF FRANCIS STREET AND WELBORN STREET
LYING WEST OF THE ALLEY EXTENDING FROM BALDWIN BOULEVARD
TO BRANNAN STREET ALONG THE EASTERN SIDE OF ROOSEVELT
PLACE ADDITION IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES
COUNTY, TEXAS, AND EXTENDING WESTWARD TO THE EASTERN
BOUNDARY OF PORT AVENUE.
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SECTION 2. THAT THE PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENTS NOW LOCATED IN
ROOSEVELT PLACE ADDITION BE, AND THE SAME ARE HEREBY, ABANDONED AS PUBLIC
UTILITY EASEMENTS AS FOLLOWS:
A. ALL OF THE PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT EXTENDING EASTWARD
FROM THE EAST BOUNDARY LINE OF PORT AVENUE IN BLOCK 4 OF
ROOSEVELT PLACE ADDITION AS SHOWN ON A PLAT OF SAID ADDI-
TION RECORDED IN VOLUME 8, PAGES 7 AND 8, OF THE MAP RECORDS
OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS.
B. ALL OF THAT CERTAIN PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT OVER AND
ACROSS A PORTION OF BLOCK 3 DF ROOSEVELT PLACE ADDITION IN
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, ASS SHOWN
BY MAP OR PLAT OF SAID ADDITION RECORDED IN VOLUME 8, PAGES
7 AND G, OF THE MAP RECORDS OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, EX-
TENDING FIVE FEET ON THE REAR PORTIONS OF LOTS 6, 7, 3, 9,
10 AND 11, AND THAT PORTION OF LOT 12 EXTENDING WESTWARD
FROM THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 6, ALL IN BLOCK 3 OF ROOSEVELT
PLACE ADDITION.
SECTION 3. THAT THE CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
15 HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO EXECUTE A QUITCLAIM DEED CONVEYING
THE ABOVE DESCRIBED CLOSED AND ABANDONED STREETS AND PORTIONS OF UTILITY
EASEMENTS TO MESQUITE STREET CORPORATION IN EXCHANGE FOR THE DEDICATION
BY PLAT OF A NEW WESTERN EXTENSION OF FRANCIS STREET, INCLUDING THE PAVING,
CURBING, GUTTERING AND PLACING OF SIDEWALKS ON EACH SIDE OF SAID NEW FRANCIS
STREET AND DEDICATION OF1�A SUFFICIENT AREA FOR THE RELOCATION OF THE UTILITY
EASEMENTS IN SAID BLOCK 4 AND BLOCK 3 OF ROOSEVELT PLACE ADDITION AND THE
PAYMENT OF THE COST OF RELOCATING ALL UTILITY INSTALLATIONS IN THE EASEMENTS
HEREIN ABANDONED AND THE PAYMENT TO THE CITY OF A FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF
ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY -TWO AND 10/100 DOLLARS ($1,552.10).
SECTION 11. THE FACT THAT PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY WOULD
BE BETTER SERVED BY THE CLOSING OF SAID PORTIONS OF SAID STREETS AND UTILITY
EASEMENTS CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY RE-
QUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION
SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDI-
NANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL,
AND THE MAYOR, HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY EXIST, RE-
QUESTING 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 ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1957,
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CITY SECRE A
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THIS
"___PAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1957:
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CITY ATTORNEY
CORP CHRISTI, TEXAS
1957
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
GENTLEMEN:
FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FORE-
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GOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE
SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLD-
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T ION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, AND TXAT SUCH
ORDINANCE ON 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 TH15 ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRO-
DUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
RESPECTFULLY,
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MAYOR :e..,
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTED:
FARRELL FARRELL D. SMITH
W. J. ROBERTS Cc..4k
B. E. BIGLER
MANUEL P. MALDONADO.
CHARLIE J. RILLS �� C
ARTHUR R. JAMES
ODELL INGLE •--L'
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
FARRELL D. SMITH
W. J. ROBERTS
B. E. BIGL ER
MANUEL P. MALDONADO
CHARLIE J. RILLS
ARTHUR R. JAMES
ODELL INGLE G
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