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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 2328 ORDLT�tiCE I o. d Z ORDDLU' CE DETM,=TING THE NECESSITY FOR IND ORDERING TJ_.T '- PORTION OF G.1IBRELL STREET IN THE CITY OF FORT ti+ORTH, TELLS, aITHLN THE LD,1TS HEREDT DEFINED, M -M.- PROVED; PROVIDING THE 3--iVNER IN '.1HICH THE COST OF SUCH DPROVEP'ENTS SHLL BE PAID; DIRECTING THE CITY ENGINEER TO PREPARE AND FILE PLANS .STD SPECIFIC.,TIONS FOR SUCH I PROVEI=TS; DIRECTING THE CITY SECRETARY TO FI.-LE A NOTICE OF THE ADOPTION OF THIS ORDINjIiXCE WITH THE COUNTY CLERK, OF TART-'d\?T COUNTY, TEKyS; ZD DECLARING TH_J THIS ORDIN,,:NCE ?STD 1L SUBSETE1NT PROCMINGS REL._TDdG TO SUCH E.PHOVE ANTS =1 AND SHALL BE PURSU_RT TO THE ACT OF THE FIRST-C:'',LLrD SESSION OF THE FORTIETH LEGISLATUEE OF THE STATE OF T=—�S, CR ITTER 106, CO'.:4;:0,1LY HI\tO+'SVT As :-LRT ICLE 1105b OF THE VER'TOD?1 S ST_,TUTES OF TEXAS. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, has de- termined that a public necessity exists for and has decided to order the improvement of the hereinafter described portion of a street in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, in the manner hereinafter provided; THEREFORE, BE IT ORD-`LU ED BY TIE CITY C07ML OF THE CITY OF FORT TORTH, TElL,4S: SECTION 1, That there exists a public necessity, and said City Council does here- by determine that it is necessary to permanently improve that portion of Gambrell Street between the west line of Hemphill Street and the east line of Stanley Street, SECTION z, That it is hereby ordered that said street within the limits herein- above described shall be improved by raising, grading, filling, widening, permanently paving or repaving same by the construction, reconstruction, repairing or realigning of concrete curbs and gutters in the manner and where the City Engineer determines that adequate curbs and gutters are not now installed on proper grade and line, and by construction of such drains and other necessary incidentals and appurtenances as deemed necessary by said Engineer, said permanent paving to consist of the construction of an adequate wearing surface upon a substantial base course, both of such type, construc- tions, materials and thickness as is deemed adequate and proper by said En- gineer, and all of said improvements to be as provided for in the plans and specifications therefor, to be prepared by said City Engineer as here- inafter directed and as shall be approved and adopted by the City Council; and that the area of the said street within the limits above defined, lying between and under rails, double tracks, turnouts and sirritches,and two feet on each side thereof, of any railway, street railway or interurban using, occupying or crossing said street within the limits defined, shall be im- proved with such type of construction and of such material or materials and tp such specifications and standards as said City Engineer may deem adequate and suitable therefor, whether the improvements in such area be of the same construction and materials adopted for the other area of said street or not. SECTION 3. In providing for and making such improvements, said City Council deems it advisable and hereby determines to proceed under and in the exer- cise of the powers, terms and provisions of Chapter 106 of the Acts of the First-Called Session of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Texas, which is known and shown as Article 1105b of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, and as adopted by the City of Fort ',North as Section 17, Chapter =!I, of the Charter of said City. SECTION 4. The City Engineer is hereby directed to forthwith prepare and file with the City Council complete plans and specifications for such improve- ments. SECTION 5. The cost of said improvements as herein defined shall be paid for as follows, to wit: (a) The cost of constructing, reconstructing or repairing said iii provemento within the area between rails, tracks, double tracks, turnouts and switches, and two feet on each side thereof, of any railway, street rail- any or interurban using, occupying or crossing such street or any portion thereof hereby ordered improved, shall be paid by the respective owners thereof and assessed against such railway, street railway or interurban and its roadbed, ties, rails, fixtures, rights and franchises, and the real and true owners thereof in the manner provided by the term.s of the said Act of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Texas (1927) above identi- fied. (b) The property abutting on such street and the real and true owners thereof shall pay all of the cost of the curbs and gutters in front of their respective property and not exceeding nine-te-riths (9(10ths') of the es- tinated cost of the remainder of such improvements, exclusive, however, of the amount thereof herein specified to be aid by any rail:,,%ay' street rail- ,;ay or interurban as set out in subsection (a) above, (c) The City of Fort lorth shall pay all of the remainder of the cost of said imDroveLsnts a2ter deducting the amounts herein specified to be raid by any rai2va,y, street railway or interurban and by the abutting properbies and -,,he real and true owners thereof as set out above in subsections (a) and (W), respectively. The amounts payable by the abutting properties and the real and true owners thereof shall be assessed against such properties and the real and rue owners thereof and shall constitute a first and prior lien upon such :properties and a personal liakility of the real and true owners thereof, and s�iall be payable as, follows, to wit Men said improvements are comoletea and accepted by the City'" CeUi2- cil, the amounts payable by and assessed against the property abutting thereupon and the real and ;-rue owners thereof shall be and become payable in five 'T equal annual installments,..due respectively on t'Nenty. (wC) days one ( �,, two (2), three (3) and tour (4) shears from the date of said ac- ceptance by said City Council, ;eye her with interest Thereon from said dote :.of acceptance at the rate.of sin per cent (65) per a.Tl.^",.m, ayable'. annually, and the amounts payable by and assessed against the property abuttzun uv_>on the street and the real and true owners thereof shall be and become due and payable in similar installments and at the came times after the date of the acceptance of such street 17 the City Council; provided, lowever, that the owners..of said property shall have the:privilege of paying.any one of or all of such installments at any time before maturity thereof by paying the total a.:_o17nt of principal.due, to ,ether ;,,i-tIn interest accrued to the C?Cite of nay— Ment. Further, if default be wade :.n the payments of any of said install— ments of principal 0_ interest promptly when 'sa.to matures, then at the option of the contractor or a8siEns, the entire amount of the assessment upon Aich such default is rade shall be and become 9rrnedi te.,ey dua and payable, to- gether .r th reasonable attorney's foes and collection costs, if incurred. However, it is specifically stipulated and provided that no assessment shall in any case be made against any property or the real or true owners thereon' in excess of.the special benefits to acerae to such property in the enhanced value Thereof resulting from said improvements. SECTioN 6. In the levying and making of said assessments, if the name of any owner be unknown, it shall be sufficient to so state the fact, and if any property be owned by an estate or by any firm or corporation, it shall be sufficient to so state, and it shall not be necessary to give the correct name of any owner, but the real and true owner of the property mentioned shall be liable and the assessment against the property shall be valid whether or mot such ow= be named or correctly naled® It is hereby fur— ther provided that in levying said assessments, the omission of said in- prover in front of any parcel of property exempt from the lien of such assessments shall in nawise affect or impair the validity of the assessments against the other abutting properties in- such street. SECTION 7. The City Secretary is hereby dirsowed to cause to be prepared a notice of the enactment of this ordinance and to file said notice with the County Clerk of ?arrant County, Texas among the Hortgage Pecords of said county. APPROTED AS TO FORIti A.N:) 1ZGx,,J,-1TY: City Attorney