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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 7686 749 to ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AND ADOPTING ESTIMATES OF THE COST OF IMPROVE- MENTS AND OF AMOUNTS TO BE ASSESSED FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON A PORTION OF ANGLE AVENUE _ AND PORTIONS OF SUNDRY OTHER STREETS, AVENUES AND PUBLIC PLACES IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS; FIXING TIME AND PLACE FOR HEARING TO THE OWNERS OF ABUTTING PROPERTY AND TO ALL OTHERS INTERESTED; DIRECTING THE CITY SECRETARY TO GIVE NOTICE OF SUCH HEARING; AND DIRECTING THE CITY SECRETARY TO ENGROSS AND ENROLL THIS ORDINANCE BY COPYING THE CAPTION OF SAME IN THE MINUTE BOOK OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND BY FILING THE COMPLETE ORDINANCE IN THE APPROPRIATE ORDINANCE RECORDS OF THE CITY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, has heretofore ordered that each of the hereinafter described portions of streets, avenues and public places in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, be im- proved by raising, grading and filling same and by constructing thereon the following, to-wit: UNIT IA: ANGLE AVENUE From Prairie Avenue to Marine Creek Parkway, known and designated as Project No. 104-23000-148, Unit 1A, a seven-inch thick reinforced concrete pavement on a six-inch thick lime stabilized subgrade with seven-inch high superimposed con- crete curb on two twenty-six foot traffic lanes with a forty-eight foot median. Six-inch thick concrete driveways will be constructed where specified. UNIT 1B: MARINE CREEK PARKWAY From Angle Avenue to IH 820 S. Service Road, known and designated as Project No. 104-23000-148, Unit 1B, a seven-inch thick reinforced concrete pavement on a six-inch thick lime stabilized subgrade with seven-inch high superimposed con- crete curb on two twenty-six foot traffic lanes with a forty-eight foot median. together with concrete curbs, gutters, driveways and incidentals to such improvements on proper grade and line where same are not already so constructed, together with storm sewersiand drains and other necessary incidentals and appurtenances; all of said im- provements to be constructed as and where shown on the Plans and in strict accordance with the Plans and Specifications therefor; contract therefore has been made and entered into with Brown & Blakney, Inc. ; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, has caused the Public Works Director to prepare and file estimates of the cost of such improvements and estimates of the amount per front foot proposed to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof, and such estimates have been examined, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THAT: I. Such estimates be, and they are hereby adopted and approved. II. It is hereby found and determined that the cost of improvements on each portion of streets, avenues, and public places hereinafter described, with the amount or amounts per front foot proposed to be assessed for such improvements against abutting pro- perty and the owners thereof, are as follows, to-wit: UNIT IA: ANGLE AVENUE from Prairie Avenue to Marine Creek Parkway, known and designated as Project No. 104-23000-148, Unit lA. UNIT 1B: MARINE CREEK PARKWAY from Angle Avenue to IH 820 S. Service Road, known and designated as Project No. 104-23000-1489 Unit 1B. The estimated cost of improvements is $ 2,320,096.40 the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for super- mposed concrete curb ##J##A#0t is $ 1 _59 ; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for pavement is $ 42.46 ; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for -0- wide concrete sidewalk is $ -0- ; the estimated amount per square foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for six-inch thick concrete driveway is $ 9.19 per square foot; the total estimated amount per front foot to be as against abutting property and the owners thereof is $ 44.05 , plus the cost incurred for concrete driveway construction where specified. III. A hearing be given and held by and before the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, to all owning or claiming any property abutting upon said portions of highways, streets, avenues and public places, as well as to all owning or claiming any interest in any such property. Such hearing shall be given and held on the 31st, day of January , 1978 , at 9:30 A.M., in the Council Chamber in the City Hall in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, and the City Secretary is hereby directed to give or- cause to be given notice ,of the time and place of such hearing and of other matters and facts in accordance with the terms and provisions of an Act passed at the First Called Session.of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Texas, and known as Chapter 106 of the Acts of said Session, now being known as Article 1105b of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes as amended by Acts 1967, 60th Legislature, Page 365, Chapter 176, Section 1, emergency effective May 12, 1967. Such notice shall be.by advertisement inserted at least three (3) times in a newspaper published in the -City of Fort Worth, Texas, the first publication to be made at least twenty-one (21) days before the date of said hearing. Said notice shall comply with and be in accordance with the terms and provisions of said Act as amended. The City Secretary is further directed to give or cause to be given personal notice of the time and place of such hearing to all owning or claiming any property abutting on said portions of 'highways, streets, avenues and public places, as well as to all owning or claiming Any interest in any such property. Such personal notice shall be in writing and shall be given or caused to be given by the City Secretary by depositing such written notice in the United States Mail at least fourteen (14) days before the , date of the hearing, postage prepaid, in envelopes addressed to all persons owning or claiming any interest in the respective properties abutting the high- ways, streets, avenues and public places or portions thereof to be improved, as the names bf such persons are shown on the current rendered tax rolls of the City of Fort Worth and at the addresses so shown, or if the name of such respective owners do not appear on such rendered tax rolls, then address to .such owners as their names are shown on the current unrendered tax rolls of the City of Fort Worth at the addresses shown thereon. In those cases in which an owner of property abutting a highway, street, avenue or public place or portion or portions there- of which is to be ,improved is listed as "unknown" on the then current City of Fort Worth tax rolls, or the name of an owner is shown on the City of Fort Worth tax rolls but no address for such owner is shown, no notice need be mailed. In those cases where the owner is shown to be an estate, the mailed notice may be addressed to such estate. In this connection, the City Secretary shall prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed with these proceedings a list of the- properties to be assessed,, the names of those persons owning or claiming any interest in said properties to whom the notice was mailed, together with the last known addresses determined as aforesaid of the respective owners and those per.F sons owning or claiming any interest in said property. The City Secretary shall certify that each of the parties in said list whose address is shown on the then current rendered or unrendered tax rolls of the City of Fort Worth was mailed a copy ,of the notice of hearing and shall further certify the date or dates on which said notice was mailed. A copy of each notice shall be attached to such' certificate. The certificate of the City Secretary will be con- clusive evidence of the facts therein recited. IV. The City Secretary is hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the caption of same in the Minute Book of the City Council and by filing the complete ordinance in the appropriate Ordinance Records of this City. V. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage. Passed and approved this .3 day of 19 7 . APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: City Attorney r ' y City of Fort Worth, Texas Mayor and Council Communication DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT:Contract Award - Angle Avenue and PAGE NUMBER 1/3/78 C-4043 Marine Creek Parkway, 1976-78 C.I.P. , IOf 3 City Council action is required on Project No. 13-023148-00 (104-23000-148) as described below: Roadway R.O.W. Unit Street Limits Width-Feet Width-Feet 1-A Angle Avenue Prairie Avenue 2 - 26' Lanes 120 to Marine Creek W/48' Median Parkway 1-B Marine Creek Angle Avenue to 2 - 26' Lanes 120 IH-820 S. Service W/48' Median Road Origin of Project The 1976-78 Capital Improvement Program (Pages B-22 and B-23) provides for the construction of a major thoroughfare from Long'Avenue to Loop 820 where it will connect to the recently completed Marine Creek Parkway. Angle Avenue is designated as a major thoroughfare in the Rockwood Sector Plan. This facility is needed to improve access to the Northwest Campus of TCJC and Loop 820. Improvements Angle Avenue, a narrow county-type roadway known as Ten Mile Bridge Road, will be improved as a double 26-foot thoroughfare (with provisions for an ultimate double 36-foot thoroughfare) by construction of major thoroughfare grade con- crete pavement with superimposed concrete curb and concrete driveway approaches where required. Intersection improvements are included at Macie Avenue, 35th Street, Samson Park Drive and Old Decatur Road. Storm drain facilities include bridges over Marine Creek and six reinforced concrete culverts at two additional locations. Also included is 5,852 linear feet of concrete storm drain pipe and appurtenances. Marine Creek Parkway (a non-existing roadway) will be improved as a double 26-foot thoroughfare (with provisions for a double 36-foot thoroughfare) by construction of major thoroughfare grade concrete pavement with superimposed concrete curb. Storm drain facilities include a concrete lined drainage channel in the center of the median the length of the roadway, with 800 linear feet of concrete storm drain pipe and appurtenances. DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT: Contract Award - Angle Avenue and PAGE NUMBER 1/3/78 MBER Marine Creek Parkway, 1976-78 C.I.P. , 2 of 3 Pa Re B-22 and B-23 Receipt of Bids The following bids were received on December 15, 1977: Bidder Amount Brown and Blakney, Inc. $2,168,314.40 Texas Bitulithic Co. 2,338,019.8.5 J. L. Bertram Construction 2,387,946.15 Austin Road Co. 2,652,745.29 Working Days Allotted: 330 Proposed Assessments In keeping with standard policy, an independent land appraiser has been retained to assist the staff in making recommendations as to enhancement of adjacent properties. Most of the adjacent property along Angle Avenue and Marine Creek Parkway is zoned "AG" Agricultural and in accordance with policy is assessed the same as commercial or industrial zoned property. The appraiser's report will be available for City Council consideration at the Benefit Hearing. Project Cost and Financing Based on the low bid and standard policy, approximately $528,451.03 is proposed to be assessed against adjacent properties, to be provided for by a bond fund transfer from the Revolving Fund Unspecified. Cost to the City for street construction is approximately $948,849.76 and $842,795.61 for storm drainage facilities, including engineering. In addition, right-of-way costs to the City will be approximately $55,000. Sufficient funds are available in the project account for the City's total costs. Recommendations It is recommended that: 1) The following bond fund transfers be approved: Amount From To Reason $528,451.03 Revolving Fund Angle Avenue & To provide funds for Unspecified Marine Creek property owners' 009-901-00- Parkway share of construction 601005 011-148-00- costs. 601120 DATE REFERENCE SUWECT: Contract Award - Angle Avenue an PAGE NUMBER Marine Creek Parkway, 1976-78 C.I.P. , 1/3/78 C-4043 Page B-22 and B-23 --3-" Of 2) An ordinance be adopted: a) Declaring the necessity for and ordering the improvements; b) Making provisions for levying assessments; c) Directing the Public Works Department to prepare estimates of costs and amounts to be assessed; d) Awarding the contract to Brown & Blakney, Inc. , in an amount of $2,168,314.40 A e) Making appropriations to cover the indebtedness thereby incurred for improvements of the project named above. 3) An ordinance be adopted: a) Approving the estimates of costs and amounts proposed to be assessed; and b) Setting January 31, 1978, as the date for the Benefit Hearing. 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