HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 6475 ORDINANCE N0. C;74_/7
AN ORDINANCE DECLARING CERTAIN FINDINGS; PROVIDING
FOR THE EXTENSION OF CERTAIN BOUNDARY LIMITS OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, AND THE ANNEXATION OF
CERTAIN TERRITORY CONSISTING OF 0.08 SQUARE MILE OF
LAND, WHICH TERRITORY LIES ADJACENT TO AND ADJOINS
THE PRESENT BOUNDARY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS; PROVIDING THAT THE TERRITORY ANNEXED SHALL
BEAR ITS PRO RATA PART OF TAXES; PROVIDING THAT THE
INHABITANTS THEREOF SHALL HAVE ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF
ALL CITIZENS OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS; PROVIDING THAT THIS
ORDINANCE SHALL AMEND EVERY PRIOR ORDINANCE IN CON-
FLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL
BE CUMULATIVE OF ALL PRIOR ORDINANCES NOT IN DIRECT
CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND NAMING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE,
WHEREAS, a public hearing before the City Council of the City of
Fort Worth, Texas, wherein all interested persons were provided with an op-
portunity to be heard on the proposed annexation of the territory hereinafter
described, was held in the City Council Chamber in the City Hall of Fort Worth,
Texas, on the 5th day of April, 1971, which date is not more than twenty (20)
nor less than ten (10) days prior to the institution of annexation proceedings;
and
WHEREAS, notice of such public hearing was published prior thereto
in a newspaper having general circulation in the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
and in the hereinafter described territory on the 19th day of March, 1971, which
date was not more than twenty (20) and not less than ten (10) days prior to the
date of such public hearing; and
WHEREAS, the population of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is in excess
of 393,000 inhabitants; and
WHEREAS, the corporate area of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, was
212.916 square miles on the lst day of January, 1971; and
WHEREAS, the hereinafter described territory lies within the exclusive
extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Fort Worth, Texas; and
WHEREAS, the hereinafter described territory contains approximately
0.08 square mile of land:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAJINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH:
SECTION I
THAT the following described land and territory lying adjacent to and
adjoining the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby added to and annexed to the
City of Fort Worth, Texas, and said territory hereinafter described shall here-
after be included within the boundary limits of the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
and the boundary limits of said City, at the various points contiguous to the
area hereinafter described, are altered and amended so as to include said area
within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, to wit:
BEING a tract of land about six miles north from the courthouse of Tarrant County,
Texas; lying in and including part of the John Hibbins Survey, Abstract No. 639,
and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point for corner in the south right-of-way line of County
Road No. 4001 (also known as East Industrial Avenue of the City of Saginaw);
said point for corner also being in the mutual common boundary line between
the City of Saginaw and the City of Fort Worth, as the said mutual common bound-
ary line is described by a Joint Resolution of record in Volume 4764 at pages
907 through 913 of the Deed Records of Tarrant County, Texas; said point for
corner also being in the easterly line of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railway Company right-of-way;
THENCE in a southeasterly direction along and with the present Fort Worth
city limit line, which is the easterly line of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railway Company right-of-way approximately 5200 feet to a point for
corner in the north line of the E. Jones Survey, Abstract No. 840, said point
for corner also being in the present Fort Worth city limit line;
THENCE west, along and with the present Fort Worth city limit line and the
north line of the E. Jones Survey, Abstract No. 840, to a point for corner in
the east right-of-way line of U.S. Highway No. 81 (North);
THENCE, northerly, along and with the present Fort Worth city limit line
and the east right-of-way line of U.S. Highway No. 81 (North) to a point for
corner at its intersection with the south right-of-way line of County Road No.
4001 (also known as East Industrial Avenue of the City of Saginaw) said point
for corner also being in the mutual common boundary line between Fort Worth and
Saginaw;
THENCE, east along and with the south right-of-way line of East Industrial
Avenue and the mutual common boundary line between Fort Worth and Saginaw to
the place of beginning and containing approximately 0.08 square miles of land.
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SECTION II
THAT the above described territory and the area annexed shall be a
part of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, and the property so added hereby shall
bear its pro rata part of the taxes levied by the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all of the rights and priv-
ileges of all the citizens and shall be bound by the acts, ordinances, resolutions
and regulations of the City of Fort Worth, Texas.
SECTION III
THAT this ordinance shall and does hereby amend every prior ordinance
in conflict herewith, but as to all other ordinances or sections of ordinances
not in conflict herewith this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative.
SECTION IV
THAT it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that
the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are
severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this
ordinance shall be declared void, ineffective, or unconstitutional by the valid
judgment or final decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitu-
tionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences,
paragraphs and sections hereof, since the same would have been enacted by the
City Council without the incorporation herein of any such void, ineffective or
unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
SECTION V
THAT this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the
date of its passage on first reading and publication and its passage on second
reading as provided for in Section 40 of Chapter XXVIII of the Charter of the
City of Fort Worth and it is so ordained,
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
City Attorney
Passed and approved this the « day of 19
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