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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDINGS TO CONDEMN
FEE TITLE TO A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN NUECES
COUNTY, TEXAS; DESCRIBING SAID PROPERTY, IDENTIFYING
THE RECORD TITLE OWNERS AND CITING ANY OTHER PARTIES
WHO MAY HAVE INTEREST OF RECORD, SAID CONDEMNATION
BEING NECESSARY FOR THE ACQUISITION OF PARCEL 68,
BLOCK 61, BEACH PORTION, BAYFRONT SCIENCE PARK AREA
PROJECT; DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO INSTITUTE
CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE OWNERS AND
CLAIMANTS, MAY DOUGHERTY KING, ET AL, TO CARRY OUT
THE INTENTIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to acquire, for and on behalf of the City
of Corpus Christi, certain parcel or tract of land described as follows:
PARCEL NO. 68
Lot Two (2), Block Sixty -One (61), BEACH PORTION of
the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, as shown by the map
or plat thereof, recorded in Volume "A", page 3, Map
Records, Nueces County, Texas;
and
WHEREAS, the said Bayfront Science Park Area Project requires the
acquisition of fee simple title in and to the aforesaid parcel or tract of
land; and
WHEREAS, record title of the aforesaid parcel or tract appears to
be in the following: May Dougherty Carr King, formerly May Dougherty Carr,
Individually and as Co -Independent Executrix of the Estate of Genevieve
Tarlton Dougherty, Deceased; Ben F. Vaughan, III, Individually and as
Co -Independent Executor of the Estate of Genevieve Tarlton Dougherty,
Deceased; Genevieve Vaughn Rossi-Landi; Dudley Tarlton Dougherty; and
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, is unable to arrive
at an agreement with the said owners and claimants as to the price and value
of said tract or parcel of land and damages for the taking thereof by the
City; it is, therefore, determined by the City Council that it is necessary
that the said tract or parcel of land described be acquired in fee title
through the exercise of the City's power of eminent domain for said public
purpose:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
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SECTION 1. In accordance with the City Charter and the laws of the
State of Texas, the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, does hereby
order, direct, and authorize that eminent domain proceedings be instituted
for the purpose of acquiring the fee simple title of the above described land
and premises, excluding mineral interest, for use by the City for the Bayfront
Science Park Area Project, and for other municipal purposes, within the city
limits, and to condemn the fee title to the aforesaid parcel or tract of land,
excluding mineral interest.
SECTION 2. The City Attorney of the City of Corpus Christi is
hereby authorized and directed to institute proceedings against the property,
and against all persons who appear to have an interest therein, and to proceed
with said condemnation suit to its final conclusion and to obtain possession
and title to said property for use in the Bayfront Science Park Area Project
and for other municipal purposes.
SECTION 3. The public importance and necessity for the City to
gain immediate possession and title of the aforesaid parcel or tract of land
hereinabove described for the Bayfront Science Park Area Project, and for
other public purposes, as hereinabove described and provided, 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 of its introduction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be
read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having
declared that such emergency and necessity exist, having requested the suspen-
sion of the Charter rule 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, this the la
day of February, 1980.
ATTEST:
APPROVED: /2. jl va y /9 0 ;
J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY A RN Y
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CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, T xas
15 day of •c-44 c&,,, 19 Pb
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a
public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspension 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, 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 ' TY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspend by the following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
The above ordinance was passe, by the following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
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