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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDINGS BY THE CITY TO
CONDEMN FEE TITLE TO PARCEL 5, FOR THE FIVE POINTS AREA
DRAINAGE OUTFALL PROJECT AND TO ACQUIRE SAID PARCEL FROM
THE OWNER; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, it is necessary to acquire, for an on behalf of the City,
certain parcel or tract of land, more fully described hereinafter; and
WHEREAS, the Five Points Drainage Outfall Project requires the
acquisition of fee simple title in and to the said parcel or tract; and
WHEREAS, record title of the parcel or tract appears to be in Mamie
Bickham Ault; and
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi is unable to arrive at an
agreement with the said owner and claimant as to the price and value of said
tract or parcel and damages for the taking thereof by the City; it is,
therefore, determined by the City Council that it is necessary that the said
parcel or tract 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:
SECTION 1. In accordance with the City Charter and the laws of the
State of Texas, the City of Corpus Christi does hereby order, direct and
authorize that eminent domain proceedings be instituted for the purpose of
acquiring the fee simple title of the following described land and premises,
excluding mineral interest, for use by the City for the Five Points Area
Drainage Outfall Project, and for other municipal purposes, within the city
limits, and to condemn the fee title to the said parcel or tract of land,
excluding mineral interest, said parcel being described by metes and bounds
as follows:
PARCEL 5
Being a tract of land out of a portion of the 35.1 acres
of land out of the Gregorio Garias Grant, Abstract 592,
Nueces County, Texas, and further described as follows:
Beginning at a point being the north corner of Tract P,
Country Estates Unit 4, as recorded in Volume 30, Page
85, Map Records, Nueces County, Texas;
Thence S 36° 44 W, 175.00 feet to the point of beginning
of this tract;
Thence S 36° 44' W, 60.00 feet to a point;
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Thence N. 530 15' W, 733.05 feet to a point;
Thence N. 36° 44 E., 60.00 feet to a point for the north
corner of this tract;
Thence S 530 15' E, 733.05 feet to the point of beginning
and containing 1.01 acres, more or less.
SECTION 2. The City Attorney 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 aforesaid project and for other municipal purposes.
SECTION 3. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council
members, copy attached, to find and declare an emergency due to the need for
expediting construction of public improvements by acquisition of the afore-
said parcel, such finding of an emergency is made and declared requiring
suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting upon ordinances
or resolutions at three regular meetings so that this ordinance is passed and
shall take effect upon first reading as an emergency measure this the Alor-
day of September, 1982.
ATTEST:
y Secretary MAYOR
APPR0VED:547ttAY OF AUGUST, 1982
Bruce Aycock, Cit
Attorney
E CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, Te s
/at day of44,tL1 , 1982
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance or resolution,
an emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting
upon ordinances or resolutions at three regular meetings; 1/we, therefore, request that you
suspend said Charter rule and pass this ordinance or resolution finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,. Respectfully,
Council Members
MAYOR
THE CIT F CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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The above ordinance was passed by the fol ing vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
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