Ordinance No. 2,0566875
ORDINANCE NO.2056
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS,AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY THE AMENDMENT
OF CHAPTER 10,"ELECTIONS,"BYTHE ADDITION OF A NEW
COUNCIL DISTRICT NO.6 IN ORDER THAT THE TERRITORY
ANNEXED TO THE CITY OF BAYTOWN BY ORDINANCE NO.2006
PASSED ON JULY 8,1976,MAY BE INCLUDED IN THE PROPER
COUNCIL DISTRICT;REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT
HEREWITH AND PROVIDING FORTHE PUBLICATION AND EFFEC
TIVE DATE HEREOF.
WHEREAS,Section 17(1)of the Charter of the City of
Baytown,Texas provides that the City Council shall redistrict
the Cityinto Council Precincts if the growth of the City
justifies;and
WHEREAS,it is necessary to include the territory
annexed to the City of Baytown by Ordinance No.2006 passed
on July 8,1976,in a Council District;NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THECITY COUNCIL OF THECITY OF
BAYTOWN,TEXAS:
Section 1:That the Code of Ordinances of the City of
Baytown is hereby amended by the amendment of Chapter 10,
"Elections,"by the addition of a new Council District No.6
which shall read as follows,to wit:
District No.6
BEGINNING at a point of intersection of center line of East
Texas Avenue with the center line of Main Street;
Thence,westerly with the center line of East Texas
Avenue to the intersection of said center line with the
center line of Decker Drive;
Thence,northwesterly with the center line of Decker
Drive to the north line of the William Scott Survey;
Thence,easterly with the north line of the William
Scott Survey to the southern projection of the east
right-of-way line of Quail Hollow Drive;
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Thence,northerly with a southern projection of the
east right-of-way line of Quail Hollow Drive to the
north right-of-way line of Baker Road;
Thence,westerly with the north right-of-way line of
Baker Road to the center line of Goose Creek Stream;
Thence,northerly approximately 2,352 feet following
the meanders of the center of GooseCreek Stream to the
northwest corner of Quail Hollow Section II Subdivision;
Thence,easterly with the north boundary of Quail
Hollow Section II Subdivision to the west right-of-way
line of Bush Road;
Thence,southerly with the west right-of-way line of
Bush Road to the southeast corner of the Quail Hollow
Apartments tract;
Thence,westerly with the south boundary of the Quail
Hollow Apartments tract to thepoint of intersection
with the north right-of-way line of Baker Road;
Thence,easterly with the north right-of-way line of
Baker Road to the west line of a 10 acre tract,said
tract being a portion of that property annexed to the
City of Baytown,Texas by Ordinance No.2006 dated July
8,1976;
Thence,north 0 deg.59 min.37 sec.east along the
west line of the aforementioned 10 acre tract,a distance
of 1043.6 feet to corner;
Thence,north 89deg.48min.east,a distance of
442.50 feet to thecenter line of a 50-foot drainage
ditch,said center line of drainage ditch also being
the west line ofa 76.28 acre tract heretoforeconveyed
by Wilburn Bros,to Goose Creek Consolidated Independent
School District;
Thence,northerly along the west side of the school
property to a point on the south line of Lynchburg-
Cedar Bayou Road;
Thence,easterly along the south line of Lynchburg-
Cedar Bayou Road approximately 120 feetto a point of
intersection with the center line of a Harris County
Flood Control drainage easement;
Thence,northerly along the center line of the Flood
Control easement to a point of intersection with the
south line of South Road in the East End Addition;
Thence,easterly along the south line of South Road,
andthe extension of this line,to a point of inter
section with the west line of North Main Street;
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r"Thence,south along the west line of North Main Street
to a point of intersection with the projection of the
north line of Cedar Bayou-Lynchburg Road;
Thence,easterly along the north line of Cedar Bayou-
Lynchburg Road a distance of approximately 410 feet to
a point;
Thence,southerly,parallel to North Main Street,a
distance of approximately 1,690 feet to a point on the
north line of the M.E.Goodman fiveacre tract;
Thence,easterly along the north line of the M.E.
Goodman fiveacre tract a distance of approximately 716
feet to a point;
Thence,southalong the east line of the M.E.Goodman
five acre tract,and continuing,a total distance of
approximately 1,134 feet to a point;
Thence,westerly along the south property line of a
r 2.19acre tract,Rayborn C.Johnson,Trustee,and an
extension of this line,a distance of approximately 870
feet to a point,said point being 200 feet from the
east line of North Main Street;
Thence,southerly with a line which is 200 feet east of
and parallel to North Main Street to its intersection
with a line which is 200 feet north of and parallel to
Massey Tompkins Road;
Thence,westerly with a line and the extension of a
line which is 200 feet north of and parallel to Massey
Tompkins Road to the center line of North Main Street;
Thence,southerly with the center line of North Main
Street to thepoint of beginning.
Section 2:Repealing Clause:All ordinances or parts
of ordinances inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance
are hereby repealed;provided,however,that such repeal
shall be only to the extent of such inconsistency and in all
other respects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other
ordinances regulating and governing the subject matter
covered bythis ordinance.
Section 3:Savings Clause:If any provision,section,
exception,subsection,paragraph,sentence,clause or phrase
of this ordinance or the application of same toany person
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orset of circumstances,shall for any reason be helduncon
stitutional,void or invalid,such invalidity shall not
affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this
ordinance of their application to other persons or sets of
circumstances and to this end all provisions of this ordinance
are declared to beseverable.
Section 4:Effective Date:This ordinance shall take
effect immediately from and after its passage andthe City
Clerk is hereby directed to publish the caption of this
ordinance at least once in the official newspaper of the
City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED,READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of
a majority of the City Council of the City of Baytown on
this 22ndday of July ,1976.
TOM GENTRY,Mayor
ATTEST:
EILEEN P.HALL,City Clerk
APPROVED:
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