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Georgetown, Texas, and shall be bound by the acts and ordinances of said City.
The City Clerk is hereby directed to file with the County Clerk
of Williamson County, Texas, a certified copy of this ordinance.
The importance of this ordinance creates an emergency and an
imperative public necessity that the rule requiring ordinances to be read at
three several meetings be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and
the ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption.
PASSED by an affirmative vote of all of the members of the City
Council this the 13th day of September, A.D. 1965.
ATTEST:
CITY SECRETARY CLAUD EARS
AN ORDINANCE
APPROVED:
bNIGH S. ELLIOTT,
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF ANY
WALL, FELE OR OTHER STRUCTURE, EXCEPTING UTILITY POLES, OR
THE PLANTING, GROWTH OR MAINTENANCE OF ANY HEDGES, TREES, SHRUBS OR
OTHER GROWTH UPON THE UNPAVED OR UNTRAVELED STREET RIGHT OF WAY POR
TIONS AND CERTAIN PRIVATE PROPERTY PORTIONS OF CERTAIN STREET CORNERS
IN THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, IN THE INTEREST AND FURTHERANCE OF IN-
SURING VISION FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY: PROVIDING FOR PENALTY: PROVIDING FOR OTHER
ENFORCEMENT: AND PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE CLAUSE.
WHEREAS, the present policy of the City of Georgetown is to allow and
encourage the landscaping by private property owners of the unpaved or un-
traveled portion of public street right-of-ways within the City of Georgetown ad-
jacent to abutting privately owned lots; and
r� WHEREAS, the free and safe movement of City of Georgetown p8blio street
traffic is restriced and endangered by obstruction to vision of street in-
tersections within the City of Georgetown; and
Whereas, the public interest requires that such obstructions be ren
stricted so as not to constitute a traffic hazard;