Ordinance No. 2,42780309 -
ORDINANCE NO. 2427
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY THE AMENDMENT
OF CHAPTER 10, "ELECTIONS," BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW
COUNCIL DISTRICT NO. 4 IN ORDER THAT THE NEWLY ANNEXED
TERRITORY OF TRAILWOOD SUBDIVISION MAY BE INCLUDED IN
THE PROPER COUNCIL DISTRICT; REPEALING ORDINANCES
INCONSISTENT HEREWITH: CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
WHEREAS, Section 17(1) of the Charter of the City of
Baytown provides that the City Council shall redistrict the
City into Council Precincts if the growth of the City justifies;
and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to include the newly annexed
territory, Trailwood Subdivision, in a Council District; NOW
THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY 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. 4
which shall read as follows, to wit:
District No. 4
BEGINNING at point of intersection of the center line of
State Highway No. 146 with the center line of East Texas
Avenue;
THENCE, northerly along the center line of State
Highway No. 146 to the east line of the J. W. Singleton
Survey;
THENCE, northerly with the east line of the J. W.
Singleton Survey to a line that is 200 feet from and
parallel to the north right -of -way line of Massey
Tompkins Road;
THENCE, easterly with the line that is 200 feet from a
parallel to the north line of Massey Tompkins Road to
its intersection with the west line of Trailwood Sub-
division;
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THENCE, northerly, easterly and southerly with the
boundary of Trailwood Subdivision until the east line
of Trailwood Subdivision intersects a line 200 feet
from and parallel to the north right -of -way line of
Massey Tompkins Road;
THENCE, northeasterly and westerly with the boundaries
of Kings Bend, Section 2 and Kings Bend, Section 3
Subdivisions to the east right -of -way line of Raccoon
Drive;
THENCE, northerly with the east right -of -way line of
Raccoon Drive to its intersection with the northern
boundary of Whispering Pines, Section 1 Subdivision;
THENCE, easterly with the northern boundary and an
extension of the northern boundary of Whispering Pines,
Section 1 Subdivision to the west bank of Cedar Bayou
Stream;
THENCE, southerly, easterly, southerly, and westerly
with the meanders of the west bank of Cedar Bayou
Stream to the extension of the center line of Cary's
Bayou;
THENCE, northwesterly with the meanders of Cary's Bayou
to the northeastern corner of Kings Bend, Section 1
Subdivision;
THENCE, southerly with the eastern boundary of Kings
Bend, Section 1 Subdivision to a point on the corporate
boundary of the city;
THENCE, northeasterly, northwesterly, and southeasterly
with the corporate boundary to the westerly right -of -way
line of State Highway No. 146;
THENCE, northeasterly with the west right -of -way line
of State Highway No. 146 to the west shore of Cedar
Bayou Stream;
THENCE, southerly, following the meanders of the west
shore of Cedar Bayou Stream to the south line of a 43
acre tract of land owned by the City of Baytown;
THENCE, westerly following the deviations of the south
boundary line of the abovementioned 43 acre tract of land
to the east right -of -way line of the Cedar Bayou - Barbers
Hill Road;
THENCE, southerly, following the east boundary line of
the Cedar Bayou- Barbers Hill Road to the northwest
corner of the Cedar Bayou Methodist Church property;
THENCE, in a general easterly direction following the
deviations of the north boundary line of the Cedar
Bayou Methodist Church to the west shore of Cedar
Bayou Stream;
THENCE, southerly following the meanders of the west
shore of Cedar Bayou Stream to a point of separation of
the common line between the west shore of Cedar Bayou
Stream and the corporate boundary;
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THENCE, southerly, easterly, southerly, and westerly
along the corporate boundary to another point of inter-
section with the west shore of Cedar Bayou Stream;
THENCE, southerly, following the meanders of the west
shore of Cedar Bayou Stream to an east projection of
the center line of East Texas Avenue;
THENCE, westerly, following the center line of an east
projection of East Texas Avenue and following the
center line of Texas Texas Avenue to the POINT 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 by this ordinance.
Section 3: Savings Clause: If any provisions, section,
exception, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase
of this ordinance or the application of same to any person
or set of circumstances, shall for any reason be held uncon-
stitutional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall not
affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this
ordinance or their application to other persons or sets of
circumstances and to this end all provisions of this ordinance
are declared to be severable.
Section 4: Effective Date: This ordinance shall take
effect immediately from and after its passage and the 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 the 9th day of March 1978.
TOM GENTRY, Mayor
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ATTEST:
EILEEN P:,HALL,' City Clerk
APPROVED:
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OTT BOUNDS, City Attorney
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