Subject: 10231/Ordi/Annex/Petitioned Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 11:36:34 -0500 ORDINANCE NO. 10231 AN ORDINANCE EXTENDING THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, BY ANNEXING CERTAIN TERRITORY CONTIGUOUS TO THE PRESENT CORPORATE LIMITS OF SAID CITY, BEING AN AREA ON THE SIDE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN IN HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, OWNED BY MARY ELLEN LYNDE THOMPSON BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED HEREIN. ______________________________ WHEREAS, under the provisions of Chapter 113, Public Acts of Tennessee of 1955, as amended (T.C.A. A76-51-101, et seq.), the City Council adopted a Resolution on May 2, 1995, directing the Clerk of the Council to give notice of a public hearing with reference to the annexation of the herein described territory, to be held May 16, 1995, at 6:00 p.m., which notice was published in the daily newspapers of Chattanooga, Tennessee, more than seven (7) days before May 16, 1995; and WHEREAS, the City of Chattanooga has been petitioned by all of the property owners of the affected territory to annex such territory, a copy of which Petition executed by Dorothea A. Antman, the attorney-in-fact for Mary Ellen Lynde Thompson, and dated April 15, 1995, is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference; and WHEREAS, said area contains less than one-fourth (1/4) square mile and less than five hundred (500) inhabitants and by the terms of the foregoing act, it is not necessary to submit a plan of services to the Planning Commission; and 0C WHEREAS, after such public hearing and investigation by the City Council, it now appears that the prosperity of the City and of the territory herein described and as described in said notice will be materially retarded and the safety and welfare of the inhabitants and property of the City and the herein described territory endangered if such territory is not annexed; and WHEREAS, the annexation of the hereinafter described territory is deemed necessary for the health, welfare and safety of the residents and property owners thereof, as well as of the City of Chattanooga as a whole; NOW, THEREFORE, SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That under the authority conferred by Chapter 113, Public Acts of 1955, and the amendments thereto (T.C.A. A76-51-101, et seq.), that there be and hereby is annexed to the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and included within the corporate boundaries of said City an area on the side of Lookout Mountain, in Hamilton County, contiguous to the corporate boundaries of said City, owned by Mary Ellen Lynde Thompson, which territory is more fully described as follows: The area to be annexed adjoins the existing Chattanooga City Limits on the southwestern corner of Parcel B-002, Hunnicutt Tax Map No. 155I on the northern right-of-way line of Carolina Street, on the eastern property line of Parcel 15, Map No. 155; thence, continuing along the existing city limits line in a northeastern direction between Parcel 15, Map No. 155 and Parcel B-002, Map No. 155I, to the northwestern corner of Parcel B-002, Map No. 155I and the southern right-of-way line of Rutherford Street, continuing along the eastern property line of Parcel 15, Map No. 155 across said street right-of-way to a point in its northern right-of-way line; thence, along the northern right-of-way line of Rutherford Street in a southeasterly direction to a point opposite the northeastern property corner of Parcel B-002, Map No. 155I; thence, crossing said street right-of-way line to the northeastern property corner of Parcel B-002, Map No. 115I, and continuing along the property line between Parcels B-002 and B-003, Map No. 155I, to the northern right-of-way line of Carolina Street and the existing city limits line; thence, continuing along the existing city limits line in a northwesterly direction, being also the northern right-of-way line of Carolina Street and the southern property line of Parcel B-002, Map 155I TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. The area to be annexed adjoins the existing Chattanooga City Limits on the northern right-of-way line of Cravens Terrace at the southeastern property corner of Parcel No. B-008, Hunnicutt Tax Map No. 155I; thence,in a northerly direction along the most westerly line of an unnamed road right-way line, as shown on the plat of the Cravens & McMillans Addition to Lookout Mountain recorded in Plat Book 2, page 39, of the Register's Office of Hamilton County, Tennessee, and the eastern property line of Parcel B-008, Map No. 155I, to a point in the southern right-of way line of Cravens Road, and continuing across said right-of-way to its northern right-of-way line; thence, along the northern right-of-way line of Cravens Road and the southern property line of Parcel B-14.1, Map No. 155H, to a point opposite the northeastern property corner of Parcel B-009, Map No. 155I; thence, in a southeasterly direction, crossing the right-of-way of Cravens Road to the southern right-of-way line of said road and the northeastern property corner of Parcel B-009, Map No. 155I; thence, in a southwesterly direction along the property line between Parcels B-009 and B-010, Map No. 155I, to the southeastern property corner of Parcel B-009, Map No. 155I; thence, in a northwesterly direction along the property line between Parcels B-009 and B-010, Map No. 155I, to a point in the eastern line of an unnamed road right-of-way line; thence, along the unnamed road right-of-way line and the western property line of Parcel B-010, Map 155I, in a southwesterly direction to a point in the northern right-of-way line of Cravens Terrace; thence, in a northwesterly direction, along the northern right-of-way line of Cravens Terrace to the POINT OF BEGINNING. SECTION 2. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That residents of and persons owning property in the above-described territory shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizenship in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, immediately upon annexation as though the above-described territory annexed had always been part of said City of Chattanooga, Tennessee. SECTION 3. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance shall become operative thirty (30) days from and after its passage, or as otherwise provided by the provisions of Chapter 113, Public Acts of Tennessee of the year 1955, as amended. SECTION 4. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance shall take effect, as distinguished from becoming operative, two (2) weeks from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. PASSED on Third and Final Reading May 23, 1995. s/s____________________________ CHAIRPERSON APPROVED:__X__ DISAPPROVED:____ DATE: ___________ _____, 1995. s/s____________________________ MAYOR PAN.tlm