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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05472 ORD - 09/02/1959IMS:AH:8 -31 -59 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 4168. GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS PLATTING ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING THE MINIMUM STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS SET FORTH IN SUB - PARAGRAPH 4 OF SUB - SECTION B OF SECTION V OF SAID ORDINANCE TO REQUIRE STREET MARKERS TO BE REFLECTORIZED AND OF THE CROSS -ARM TYPE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT STREET NAME SIGNS OF THE CROSS -ARM TYPE AND REFLECTORIZED ARE MORE DESIRABLE AND LESS EX- PENSIVE FOR USE AS A STREET MARKER AT THE INTERSECTION OF STREETS INSTEAD OF CONCRETE POSTS AS HERETOFORE SPECIFIED AS MINIMUM REQUIREMENT: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. THAT SUB- PARAGRAPH 4 OF SUB - SECTION B OF SECTION V OF ORDINANCE NO. 4168 OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS THE 'PLATTING ORDINANCE", AS AMENDED, BE AMENDED SO AS TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SECTION V - REQUIRED IMPROVEMENTS. B. MINIMUM STANDARDS. 4. STREET MARKERS. TWO STREET NAME SIGNS HAVING THE FOLLOWING SPECIFICATIONS SHALL BE ERECTED AT ALL STREET INTER- SECTIONS IN SUCH SUBDIVISIONS FOR STREET MARKERS: A. THE STREET NAME SIGNS SHALL BE OF THE CROSS -ARM TYPE, AND SHALL BE REFLECTORIZED ON ALUMINUM METAL BLAMKS. B. SIGNS SHALL HAVE LETTERING FOR THE RESPECTIVE STREET NAME IN 4" MINIMUM HEIGHT STANDARD LETTERS WITH THE BLOCK NUMBERS AND STREET, DRIVE, PLACE, AND ETC., IN Z" MINIMUM HEIGHT STANDARD LETTERS. C. SUCH SIGNS SHALL BE SUPPORTED ON A 10t POST, WITH AT LEAST 2' OF THE P05T BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. THE STREET NAME SIGN SHALL BE AT LEAST 7' TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SIGN AND NOT MORE THAN 10' TO THE TOP OF THE SIGN FROM THE GROUND. D. THE POST SHALL BE; 4" X 4" NO. 1 SELECT REDWOOD, 2" STANDARD GALVANIZED OR OTHER PERMANENT RUST PROOF TYPE OF METAL POST. 5472 3. THE MATERIAL OF THE STREET NAME SIGN51 THE METHOD OF ATTACHING THE SIGN TO THE POST, THE DETAILS OF LETTERING, PAINTING AND METHOD OF INSTALLATIONS AS WELL AS THE LOCATION OF THE SIGN AT THE INTERSECTION SHALL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPECIFICATIONS ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY. SECTION 2. THE NECESSITY FOR IMMEDIATE ADOPTION OF A MORE DESIRABLE AND ECONOMICAL TYPE STREET NAME MARKER IN SUBDIVISIONS AT STREET INTERSECTIONS IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE 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 SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFEECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE DAY OF SEPTEMBERS 1959. C ATTESJ .1 /, MAYOR / 1 i/ / THE CITY 0 C RPUS ISTI, TEXAS � y CITY SEC ETAR 1 / APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FROM THIS THE _ '3 / DAY OF 1959: CITY ATTORNEY CORPUS CHRISTI' T AS DAY OF 46 1959 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FORE- GOING ORDINANCES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLU- TION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCEI)p 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 REQUIRE- MENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED,, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. RESPECTFULLY, MAYOR THE CITY ORPUS ISTIJEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: ELLROY KING JAMES L. BARNARD MRS. RAY AIRHEART wfip JOSEPH B. DUNN G41 PATRICK J. DUNNE Re A. HUMBLE GABE LOZANO, SR. THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING ELLROY KING ,CL-Z' I JAMES Le BARNARD MRS. RAY AIRHEART JOSEPH Be DUNN PATRICK J. DUNNE R. A. HUMBLE Gtr, o GABE LOZANO, SR.