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. . I- .,. . ........ ." ORDINANCE NO. 'I2Q AN ORD:!:NANCE DES IGNATING A PART OF THE AREA LOCATED IN THE EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, AS AN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT, TO BE KNOWN AS THE IlBATTLEGROUND INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT OF LA PORTEll; RESERV- ING AND PRESERVING ALL RIGHTS, POWERS AND DUTIES OTHER- WISE REPOSING BY LAW IN THE CITY COMMISION OF LA PORTE; AND PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE. WHEREAS, it is the established policy of the City Commission of the City of La Porte, Texas, to adopt such rea- sonable measures, from time to time, as are permitted by law and . which will tend to enhance the economic stability and growth of the City and its environs 'by attracting the location of new, and the expansion of old industries -therein; and WHEREAS, in furtherance of such policy the City Commis- sion did, during the year 19,58, by the final passage of Ordinance No. 558 and entry into certain agreements attendant thereto, annex to the City of La Porte a strip or strips of land encircling an area of land not then included within the corporate limits of La Porte, but deemed by the Commission to be within its area of in- .' terest, for the primary purpose of thereby establishing an area within the sole municipal control of the City of La Porte, Texas, but outside the corporate limits thereof, to be developed as an industrial area or district, primarily devoted to the use and occupancy by industrial plants; and WHEREAS, during the year 1961, the arrangement referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph was further implemented by the adoption of Ordinance No. 637, and agreements attendaht thereto; and WHEREAS, by virtue of the acts above enumerated the ~ City Commission of the City of La Porte has done and performed