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.