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CC Resolution No. 550 811 RESOLUTION NO. 550 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS , OFFICIALLY OBJECTING TO THE POSITION OF THE U. S . FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE CONCERNING ITS OPPOSITION TO THE CITY OF BAYTOWN' S INTENTION TO CONSTRUCT AN EMBANKMENT SYSTEM BRIDGE ACROSS THE GOOSE CREEK STREAM. WHEREAS , subsidence in the Baytown area has caused the structural failure and decline in the elevation of streets, roads, bridges and other city facilities necessitating extensive programs of rebuilding and repairs ; and WHEREAS , the Market Street Bridge spanning the Goose Creek Stream, a major East-West thoroughfare essential as an escape route during hurricanes, tropical storms and other natural disasters, is such a facility which now becomes inundated during abnormally high tides; and WHEREAS , engineering studies have been made concerning the cost of alternate methods of constructing a bridge spanning Goose Creek at Market Street and it has been determined that a trestle system bridge will cost some Two Hundred Sixty-Four Thousand ($264 , 000. 00) Dollars more than construction of a conventional embankment system bridge ; and WHEREAS , the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service has indicated that it will file with the U. S . Corps of Engineers a letter giving their reason the alleged destruction of approximately one acre of marine life breeding grounds; and WHEREAS , the City Council of the City of Baytown wishes to officially object to the opposition of the U. S . Fish and Wildlife Service to the construction of an embankment system bridge and especially to the costly and perilous delay which will be associated with their opposition; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: 812 That the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, officially objects to the position of the U. S . Fish and Wildlife Service concerning its opposition to the City of Baytown ' s intention to construct an embankment system bridge across the Goose Creek Stream on Market Street and urgently reguest that the perilous and costly delay associated with such opposition to the construction of a bridge on this major escape route be eliminated. INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City Council on this the 14th day of October , 1976 . TOM GENTRY, Mayor ATTEST: GAIJ "4u L43ext JO QN BRYANT, Deputy pity Clerk APPROVED: NE I A SON, City Attorney -2-