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HomeMy WebLinkAbout024618 ORD - 10/09/2001 Page 1 of 5 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES CHAPTER 49 - STREETS AND SIDEWALKS, SECTION 49-1 -- PROCEDURE FOR NAMING, RE-NAMING OR CHANGING NAMES OF STREETS BY REPLACING CURRENT PROCEDURES WITH NEW PROCEDURES AND FEES; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That the City Code of Ordinances, Chapter 49 - Streets and Sidewalks, Section 49-1 -- Procedure for Naming, Re-Naming or Changing Names of Streets is amended by replacing Current Procedures with New Procedures and Fees to read as follows: "CHAPTER 49 - STREETS AND SIDEWALKS "Article IIN GENERAL "Sec. 49-1. Procedure for naming, renaming or changing names of streets. "The followina procedure is hereby established for the namina. renaming or chanaing of names of streets. roads and hiahwavs within the City : ill Persons who reside on or own property that has a street address on any street. road or hiahwav within the City who desire to have the City Council exercise its powers of fixina or chanaina the name of said street. road or hiahwav may file a reauest with the City Secretary in writina. o The reauest shall contain an accurate description of the street. road or hiahwav. or portion thereof. and the name or names involved. so as to identify the location. ru Attached to the reauest shall be a narrative explainina the backaround and intended iustification for the proposed street renamina. ill Upon receipt of the reauest. and attached backaround and iustification. the City Secretary and City Traffic Enqineer shall iointlv verify whether the proposed street renamina complies with the City Council policv for proposed street name chanaes. Upon determination that the proposed street renamina complies with the City Council policv. the City Secretary shall notify the applicant to submit an official application with the City Secretary in writina. directed to the City Council. Upon determination that the proposed street renamina does notcomplv with the City Council policv. the City Secretary will notify H:\LEG-DIR\DoyleDCurtis\MYDOCS\2001 \ORD2001.1 OO\Ordinanc.es\Traffic.eng\StRename.Ord\Sec49-1 RevisedOrd.wpd :J?1f)18 T ..... Page 2 of 5 the City Council of the request and of the determination that it does not satisfy the Council policy. Unless otherwise directed by a maiority of the Council by the end of the next Council meetinq after notification. the City Secretary will notify the applicant of the denial and the reasons for the denial. @ The application shall be on a form supplied by the City Secretary and shall contain all information reauested. A "research fee" of five hundred dollars ($500.00) shall accompany the application. The "research fee" shall cover the City staff's cost for a thorouah research of the street renamina application inciudina: @l preparation of a detailed site map of the affected street section. current development and number of affected properties: fQl identification of all affected property owners. tenants. and their mailina addresses: M preparation of a required survey form for contactina the affected property owners; and @ identification of a "processinq fee" commensurate with the total cost of the followina: ill City Secretary's cost of mailina the survey forms to all affected property owners. !ill City staff's cost of compilina responses to mailed survey. and iliD. City Secretary's cost of publishinq a notice for a public hearing by the City Council and mailing written notice to all affected property owners and tenants .em Survey Process. Upon applicant's receipt of written notice from the City Traffic Enaineer specifying the "processina fee" described in section S.d. the applicant must. within ten (10) workina days followina receipt of the notice. deposit with the City Secretary the amount of the "processina fee". Followina receipt of the "processina fee" within the prescribed period. the Citv Secretarv shall inform the Citv Traffic Enaineer to proceed with the reauired survey of affected property owners. The survey will be conducted and analyzed with the followinq procedure: @l The City Traffic Enaineer will mail the survey to affected property owners within ten (10) workinq days followina deposit of the applicants "processing fee" with the City Secretary: H:\LEG-DIR\DoyleDCurtis\MYDOCS\2001 \ORD2001.1 OO\Ordinanc.es\Traffic.eng\StRename. Ord\Sec49-1 RevlsedOrd.wpd 1 'I" Page 3 of 5 fQl Property owners will be aiven fifteen (15) workina davs from the date of the mailed notice to respond to the survev: {Ql Upon receipt of survev forms received within the prescribed period. the Citv Traffic Enaineer will determine the number of property owners in support of the proposed street renamina. Propertv owners who do not respond or whose responses are received after the prescribed period will be classified as not supportina the proposed street renamina: @ If 50% or less than 75% of the total surveved propertv owners support the proposed street renaming. the applicant will be notified within twentv (20) workina davs that the application has been denied and shall be provided with a summary of the survev results: lill If 75% or more than 50% of the total survev property owners support the proposed street renamina. the applicant will be notified ofthe survev results within twentv (20) workina davs of the completed survev. Within the prescribed twentv (20) dav period the Citv Traffic Enaineer shall in writing reauest the followina officials. committees and oraanizations to comment in writina on the proposed street renamina: ) Director of Enaineerina Services ) Citv Utilities Office Manaaer ) Director of Plannina ) Citv Landmark Commission ) Police Chief ) Nueces Countv Historical Societv ) Fire Chief ) Nueces Countv Historical Commission ) Postmaster ill Upon the Citv Traffic Enaineers completion of survev results and reauested comments from the officials identified in subsection 6.e above. the citv Manaaer shall set a date for a public hearina bv the Citv Council. Upon settina the date. notice of the hearina shall be published bv the Citv Secretarv. and written notice mailed. at least ten (10) workina davs in advance of the date set for public hearina. to property owners and tenants whose residence or place of business is on the street. road or hiahwav affected. fID Citv Council Public HearinG. On the date set for public hearina. the hearina shall be held bv the Citv Council and decision made or the Council shall continue the matter to another date. At least a three-fourth (3/4)-maioritv H:ILEG.DIRIDoyleDCurtisIMYDOCS\2001 IORD2001.1 OOlOrdlnanc.esITraffic.engIStRename. OrdISec49-1 RevisedOrd .wpd 1 r Page 4 of 5 vote of the Citv Council shall be required to approve the proposed street renaminq. Upon approval bv the Citv Council of anv street name chanqe. a copv of the ordinance makinq the chanqe shall be furnished by the City Secretary to each of the aforementioned officials. committees and oraanizations and the Citv Traffic Enaineer shall cause street name sians to be placed on the affected street in accordance with the terms of the ordinance. No cost ...i11 be charaed to the aD15licant or affected Drocertv owners or residents for the City's cost to fabricate and install the new street name sians. The Citv's actual costs for fabricatina the street name sian assemblies (inclusive of material costs) with the name street name approved by the city council. and inciudina the field installation cost. will be paid by the applicant for the street renaminq proposal. This cost. followina its determination by the City Traffic Enaineer. must be deposited with the City prior to work commencina on fabrication and replacement of the street name sians. fID If the street renamina application is denied. neither the aforementioned "research fee" nor "processina fee" will be refunded to the applicant. SECTION 2. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi. H:\LEG-DIR\DoyleDCurtisIMYDOCS\2001 \ORD2001.1 OO\Ordlnanc.es\Traffic.eng\SIRename.Ord\Sec49-1 RevlsedOrd.wpd - -. Page 5 of 5 That the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time and passed to its second reading on this the 25th day of September, 2001 by the following vote: That ~,El fOregOi~n~ead for the second time and passed finally on this the~ay of ( , 2001, by the following vote: U Samuel L. Neal, Jr ~* Rex A. Kinnison ~L Mayor Mayor Pro Tem QbMJ0- O.1?!- (1~ Samuel L. Neal, Jr Mayor Brent Chesney Javier D. Colmenero Henry Garrett Bill Kelly Brent Chesney Javier D. Colmenero Henry Garrett Bill Kelly ATTEST: A'ma"~ City Secretary LEGAL FORM APPROVED October 3, 2001 JAMES R. BRAY, JR. CITY ATTORNEY By: /L)., (/~ _ JOSeph~r~ey 6 Assistant City Attorney Rex A. Kinnison Mayor Pro Tem CiLf f};f John Longoria Jesse Noyola Mark Scott John Longoria Jesse Noyola Mark Scott O~ ,2001. THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ~>'J~~ Samuel . Neal, Jr. Mayor H:ILEG-DIRIJeannieIDoyleDCurtisIStRename-Ord.Sec49-1 RevisedOrd. wpd 1 ...... :J ? .' b 18 . ,". j.' .'~' ',.- r .- . ". "" ;.';',~ n T ?'j~-r. i 01 o~.,. 1 I _d,..l 8 Ml 11: 01, } } State of Texas County of Nueces PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT ss: CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI Ad # 3977082 PO # Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Eugenia Cortez, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she is Customer Service Manager of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a daily newspaper published at Corpus Christi in said City and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria and Webb Counties, and that the publication of, NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. which the annexed is a true copy, was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and on the World Wide Web on the Caller-Times Interactive on the 15TH day(s) of o V&.. 00, O~~~{g Corpus.. ~.G-MonclaY, October 15, 2001107 I oF ORDINANCE NO. Credit Customer Service Manager ..024618 Ordinance- 'amending the Code of Ordinances, C/laptar '. ~9 -.' S.lraate... .and I Slda_,~4 . 1 .. Procedure for f Nami'9'Re-nairilng or i Changing N_ Of , Slrtpfs by .-.placIng __~ t current . pr~edur.. ~RIA F( .... I' wtth new PfOOIdures 0 "t;. ! an~ fee,., This~.,. pus 'P<<:"\ . ordinance was P88S8d </. <.1' " , . an<j llpf>roVed by the '" \ t. C.lly. C OUncll .01 the. .ClIy.~ II r of CoIpue CMIcI on VI 11: " ,.~.. .8.;2pll.l,. . 5 $2 l 1tI.~:.,.,., ....~.\ ,'- .... ' ~ ,I . or q,"''''' . CllVGlCOIMI-, ....... . ,...J'n.q_2,_2\1~. "--~".., OCTOBER. 200 I. I' t.Y--'4 2' t?~. Subscribed and sworn to me on the date of OCTOBER 16, 2001. CXO)~ YrYMuJ. ~ Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas ROSA MARIA FLORES Print or Type Name of Notary Public My commission expires on 04/23/05.