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ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 16561 RELATING TO THE CLOSING AND
ABANDONING OF A SIXTY FOOT (60') WIDE PUBLIC STREET ON
CORPUS CHRISTI BEACH DESIGNATED AS DICKINSON STREET,
FROM SURFSIDE BOULEVARD TO NORTH SHORELINE BOULEVARD
TO REMOVE THE VISUAL CORRIDOR PLAT REQUIREMENT OF
SECTION 1(c) THEREOF AND TO ADD A PLAT STATEMENT
INDICATING THE UTILITY LINES WITHIN THE VACATED AND
ABANDONED PUBLIC STREET ARE PRIVATE UTILITIES; PROVIDING
FOR SEVERANCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
WHEREAS, on September 23, 1981, City Council passed and approved Ordinance No.
16561 closing and abandoning Dickinson Street between Surfside Boulevard and North
Shoreline Boulevard and required in Section 1 (c) thereot "that the abutting property
owners provide and maintain an open and unobstructed visual corridor torty teet (40') in
width parallel to Dickinson Street.. ."; and
WHEREAS, the visual corridor requirement ot said ordinance is no longer necessary
because the North Central Development Plan, adopted in 1990, designates Breaker Street
as the visual corridor tor the area and two visual corridors within 170 teet ot each other is
unnecessary; and
WHEREAS, it is beneticial to amend the plat to specify that the utility lines located on Lot
7A, Corpus Christi Beach Hotel Addition, and within the abandoned street right-ot-way are
private lines;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 16561, adopted on September 23, 1981, is amended by
amending Section 1 (c) thereof to delete the visual corridor plat requirement and to replace
it with a statement clearly indicating that the utility lines on the property and within the
abandoned street right-ot-way are private utility lines, as tollows:
Section 1
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(c) That the abutting owners provide and maintain an open and unobstructed \,'isual
corridor forty feet (40') in 'Nidth parallel to Dickinson Street from Surfsido
Boulovard to the westerly boundary of North Shoreline Boulevard. Said visual
corridor shall be situatod bet\veen Bushick Place and Breaker Avonue but shall
not be contiguous to eithor of such streets utility lines located on Lot 7 A. Corpus
Christi Beach Hotel Addition, and within the closed and abandoned sixty foot
(60') wide Dickinson Street rioht-ot-way are private utility lines.
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SECTION 2. It tor any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word
or provision ot this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a
court ot competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, word, or provision ot this ordinance, tor it is the detinite intent ot this City
Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision ot
this ordinance be given full torce and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 3. That upon written request ot the Mayor or tive council members, copy
attached, the City Council (1) finds and declares an emergency due to the need tor
immediate action necessary for the efficient and effective administration ot City affairs and
(2) suspends the Charter rule that requires consideration ot and voting upon ordinances at
two regular meetings so that this ordinance is passed and takes effect upon first reading
as an emergency measure this the 13th day ot December, 2005.
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the ~ day ot ~ ,2005.
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Armando Chapa Zf
City Secretary
APPROVED: 13th day of December, 2005.
By (;irfC)m~
Gary . Smith
Assistant City Attorney
tor City Attorney
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Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set torth in the emergency clause ot the toregoing ordinance, an
emergency exists requiring suspension ot the Charter rule as to consideration and
voting upon ordinances at two regular meetings: IlWe, therefore, request that you
suspend said Charter rule and pass this ordinance tinally on the date it is introduced, or
at the present meeting ot the City Council.
Respectfully,
Respectfully,
Council Members
The above ordinance was passed by the tollowing vote:
Henry Garrett ;
Brent Chesney
John E. Marez ~
Melody Cooper
Jerry Garcia ~
Bill Kelly
Rex A. Kinnison ~
Jesse Noyola
Mark Scott ~L
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