HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 3390 ORDINANCE NO.
ORDINANCE APPROVING AND ADOPTING ESTIMATES OF
THE COST OF IMPROVEMENTS AND OF AMOUNTS TO BE
ASSESSED FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON PORTIONS OF BOWIE
STREET IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FIXING
TIME AND PLACE FOR HEARING TO THE OWNERS OF
ABUTTING PROPERTY AND OWNERS OF RAILWAYS AND
TO ALL OTHERS INTERESTED, AND DIRECTING THE
CITY SECRETARY TO GIVE NOTICE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth,
Texas has heretofore ordered that each of the hereinbelow des-
cribed portions of Bowie Street in the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
be improved by raising, grading and filling same and by con- .
structing thereon a 10 inch flexible base course with a 31, inch
hot mix asphaltic binder course with a 12 inch asphaltic
concrete surface, together with combined curbs and gutters on
proper grade and line where same are not already so constructed,
together with necessary incidentals and appurtenances, all to
be constructed as and where shown on the Plans and in strict
accordance with the Plans and Specifications therefor, and
contract therefor has been made and entered into with Texas
Bitulithic Company; 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, the estimate of the
amounts per front foot proposed to be assessed against abutting
property and the owners thereof, and amounts to be assessed
against railways for improvements in the area between and under
rails, tracks, double tracks, turnouts and switches, and two
feet on each side thereof, and such estimates have been examined,
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
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improvements on each portion of Bowie Street hereinafter des-
cribed, with the amount or amounts per front foot proposed to
be assessed for such improvements against the abutting property
and the owners thereof and amount to be assessed against
railways for improvements in the area between and under rails, ;- -
tracks, double tracks, turnouts and switches, and two feet on
each side thereof, are as follows, to wit:
On BOWIE STREET, from the westerly right-of-way line
of the St. L. & S. F. (Frisco) Railroad, (one-half block east
of the easterly line of May Street) to the easterly line of
St. Louis Avenue, gown and designate as Unit No. 1: the estim-
ated cost of the improvements is / 77S ; the estimated
amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property
and the owners thereof for curb and gutter is $ /9S ;
the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against
abutting property and the owners thereof for improvements
exclusive of curb and gutter is $ 8"3 _____ ; total estimated
amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property
and the owners thereof is $1O.SB ; the estimated amount
to be assessed against any. rai wwa.y, street railway or interurban,
its roadbed, ties, rails, fixtures, rights and franchises,
using, occupying or crossing any portion of said street, for
improvements in the area between and under rails, tracks,
double tracks, turnouts and switches and two feet on each side
thereof, is the estimated cost of the improvements in such
area, which is
On BOWIE STREET, from the easterly line of St, Louis
Avenue to the easterly line of Jones Street, known and designate
as Unit No. 2: the estimated cost of the improvements is
$f 7/0.15 ; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed
aga nst a utting property and the owners thereof for curb and
gutter is $ f_5' ; the estimated amount per front foot to
be assessed againstabutting property and the owners thereof for
improvements exclusive of curb and gutter is $ 1413 ;
total estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against
abutting property and the owners thereof is $ /4.5ill ; the
estimated amount to be assessed against any railway, street
railway or interurban, its roadbed, 'ties, rails, fixtures,
rights and franchises, using, occupying or crossing any portion
of said street, for improvements in the area between and under
rails, tracks, double tracks, turnouts and switches and two feet
on each side thereof, is the estimated cost of the improvements
in such area, which is
On BOWIE STREET, from the easterly line of Jones
Street to the westerly line of the North-South Freeway, known
and designated as Unit No. 3: the estimated cost of the improve-
ments is the estimated amount per front foot
to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof
for curb and gutter is $ /y' ; the estimated amount
per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the
owners thereof for improvements exclusive of curb and gutter is
$ 8,�3 �; total estimated amount per front foot to be
assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is
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 each said portion of Bowie
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IiStreet and to all others owning or claiming any interest in
any such property and to the owners of railways, street railways
and interurbans using, occupying or crossing any portion of said
street and to all others owning or claiming any interest in any
such property. Such hearing shall be given and held on the
8 day of Q� t�J A. D., 1955, at /O:00
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j o'clock, If �. 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 notice of the time and place of such
hearing and of other matters and facts in accordance with the
terms and provisions of the Act passed at the First Called
Session of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Texas,
known as Chapter 106 of the Acts of said Session, now shown as
Article 1105b of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, which Act has
been adopted as an amendment to and made a part of the Charter
of-the City of Fort Worth, Texas. Such notice shall be by
advertisement inserted at least three times in a newspaper
published in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, the first public-
ation to be made at least ten (10) days before the date of said
hearing and said notice shall comply with and be in accordance
with the terms and provisions of said Act.
PASSED AND APPROVED This /.2. day of October,
A. D., 1955•
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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