CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — It was standing room only at Tuesday night’s Corpus Christi City Council meeting, as dozens of residents lined up to speak their minds during the public comment portion.
That section of the meeting is usually held at noon, but the council moved it to 5:30 p.m. on a trial basis to allow more people to attend after work. The result? Nearly three hours of citizen commentary and a meeting that dragged on for more than 13 hours.
Baffin Bay advocate Taylor Garcia was one of the first speakers, urging council members to reject any plans that would allow freshwater from a proposed desalination plant in Driscoll to flow into the environmentally sensitive bay…