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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 8001 ORDINANCE NOA_04/ ORDINANCE CLOSING HEARING AND LEVYING ASSESSMENTS FOR PART OF THE COST OF IMPROVING A PORTION OF_OAKMONT PARKWAY _ AND PORTIONS OF SUNDRY OTHER STREETS, AVENUES AND PUBLIC PLACES IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: FIXING CHARGES AND LIENS AGAINST ABUTTING PROPERTY THEREON, AND AGAINST THE OWNERS THEREOF: PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF SUCH ASSESSMENTS AND THE ISSUANCE OF ASSIGNABLE CERTIFI- CATES IN EVIDENCE THEREOF: RESERVING UNTO THE CITY COUNCIL THE RIGHT TO ALLOW CREDITS REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF THE RESPECTIVE ASSESSMENT TO THE, EXTENT OF ANY CREDIT GRANTED: DIRECTING THE CITY SECRETARY TO EN- GROSS AND ENROLL THIS ORDINANCE BY COPYING THE CAPTION OF SAME IN THE MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH, AND BY FILING THE ORDINANCE IN THE ORDINANCE RECORDS OF SAID CITY: AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, 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 improved by raising, grading, or filling same and by constructing thereon to-wit: OAKMONT PARKWAY From Hulen Street west approximately 5,286 feet to the west line of the C. 0. Edwards property, known and designated as Project No. 21-36503, a ten-inch thick hot-mix asphaltic concrete pavement on a six-inch thick lime stabilized subgrade, with seven- inch high concrete curb and eighteen-inch wide concrete gutter. The finished road- way will consist of two twenty-six foot traffic lanes with a forty-eight foot median. Four-inch thick concrete sidewalk will be constructed where specified. The above,together with combined concrete curbs and gutter on proper grade and line where same are not already so constructed, together with storm drains and other necessary incidentals and appurtenances; all of said improve- ments are to be so constructed as and where shown on the plans and in strict accordance with the Plans and Specifications therefor: and contract has been made and entered into with Texas Bitulithic Company for the making and construction of such improvements on the above said portion of streets, avenues and public places. WHEREAS, estimates of the cost of the improvements of each such portion of streets, avenues and public places were prepared and filed and approved and adopted by the City Council of the City, and a time and place was fixed for a hearing and the proper notice of the time, place and purpose.of said hearing was given and said hearing was had and held at the time and place fixed therefor, to-wit, on the llthday of September 1979 9:30 A.M. in the Council Chamber in the City Hall in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, and at such hearing the following protests and objections were made, to-wit: _protested that protested that _protested that _protested that --_ __protested that --_---__ _-_____ _protested that _ __--protested that __protested that __—_protested that --__--- —_— ------------__- ----protested that and said hearing was continued to the present time in order to more fully accomplish the purposes thereof, and all desiring to be heard were given full and fair opportunity to be heard, and the City Council of the City having fully considered all proper matter, is of the opinion that the said hearing should be closed and assessments should be made and levied as herein ordered: NOW THEREFORE: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THAT: I. Said hearing be, and the same is hereby, closed and the said protest and objections, and any and all other protests and objections, whether herein enumerated or or not, be and the same are hereby, overruled. Il. The Pity Council, from the evidence, finds that the assessments herein levied should be made and levied Against the respective parcels of property abutting upon the said portions of streets, avenues and public places and against the owners of such property, and that such Assessments and charges are right and proper and are substantiali,v in proportion to the benefits to the respective parcels of property by means of the improvements in the unit for which such assessments are levied, and establish substantial ,justice and equality and uniformity between the respective owners of the respective properties, and between all parties concerned, considering the benefits received and burdens imposed, and further finds that in each case the abutting property assessed is specially benefited in enhanced value to the said property by means of the said improvements in the unit upon which the particular property abuts and for which Assessment is levied and charge made, in a sum in excess of the said assessment and charge made Against the same by this ordinance, and further finds that the apportion- ment of the cost of the improvements is in accordance with the law in force in this City, and the proceedings of the City heretofore had with reference to said improv��nwnts, and is in all respects valid and regular. M. There shall be, and is hereby, levied and assessed against the parcels of property herein below mentioned, and ilgalllSt the Peal alld tl'ue o"'ners thereof (whether shell owners be correctly named herein or not) the sums of money itemized below opposite the description of the respective parcels of property and the several amounts assessed against the same, and the owners thereof, As far as such owners are known, being as follows: IV. Where more than one person, firm or corporation owns an interest in any property above described, each said person firm or corporation shall be personally liable only for its, her or his pro rata of the total assessment against such property in proportion as its, his or her respective interest bears to the total ownership of such property, and its, his or respective interest in such pro- perty may be released from the assessment lien upon payment of such . proportionate sum. V. The several sums above mentioned and assessed the said parcels of property, and the owners thereof, and interest thereon at the rate of six per cent (6/) per annum, together with reasonable at- torney 's fees and costs of collection, if incurred, are hereby declared to be and are made a lien upon the respective parcels of property against which the same are assessed, and a personal liability and charge against the real and true owners of such property, whether such owners be correctly named herein or not, and the said liens shall be and constitute the first enforceable lien and claim against the property on which such assessments are levied, and shall be a first and paramount lien thereon, superior to all other liens and claims, except State, County, School District and City ad valorem taxes . The sums so assessed against the abutting property of Oakinont Development Corporation and the owners thereof shall be and become due and payable as follows, to-wit : in five (5) equal installments, due respectively on or before thirty (30) days, one (1) , two (2 ) , three (3) , and four (4) years from the date of completion and ac- ceptance of the improvements in the respective unit, and the assessments against the property abutting upon the remaining units shall be and become due and payable in such installments after the date of the completion and acceptance of such respective units and shall bear interest from said date at the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, payable annually with each installment, except as to the first in- stallment, which shall be due and payable at the maturity thereof, so that upon the completion and acceptance of the improvements in a particular unit, assessments against the property abutting upon such completed and accepted unit shall be and become due and payable in such installments, and with interest from the date of such completion and acceptance. Provided, however, that any owner shall have the right to pay the entire assessment, or any installment thereof, before maturity by payment of principal and accrued interest, and provided further that if default shall be made in the payment of principal or interest promptly as the same matures, then the entire amount of the assessment upon which such default is made shall, at the option of said City of Fort Worth, or its assigns, be and become immediately due and payable, and shall be collectable, together with reasonable attorney 's fees and cost of collection, if incurred, PROVIDED, however, that acting through its duly authorized Director of Public Works the City of Fort Worth retains the right to authorize payment of the sums assessed against abutting property upon such com- pleted and accepted unit in not more than forty-eight (48) equal regular monthly installments of not less than $9.00 each, the first of such installments to become due and payable not more than thirty (30) days after the completion and acceptance by the City of the particular unit. PROVIDED FURTHER, that the City Attorney is hereby empowered to authorize payments of said sums of lesser installments and/or over a longer period of time in cases in which the Director of Public Works has previously determined that an extreme financial hardship upon the property owner will otherwise result; and PROVIDED FURTHER, that such method of payments shall be authorized only in instances where the owner or owners of property abutting upon such completed and accepted unit shall have executed and delivered to the City of Fort Worth a lawful, valid and binding note and mechanic 's and materialman 's contract upon forms supplied by the City granting a mechanic 's lien upon and conveying the said abutting property in trust to secure the payment by said owner or owners according to the terms thereof of the sums assessed against such property. The sums so assessed against the abutting property of Santa Fe Land Improvement Co. , Cass Overton Edwards II, Eva Colleen Edwards Geren and Mary E. Hook Kelly, and Cass Overton Edwards II and Eva Colleen Edwards Geren and the owners thereof shall be and become payable, as defined below, pro-rata, as to tracts affected, on the several occasions of the soonest to occur of the following events : A. Sale of any tract fronting Oakmont Parkway (Project No. 21-36503) . B. Application for a building permit to improve any tract fronting Oakmont Parkway (Project No. 21-36503) . C. The expiration of ten years . Upon the occurrence of each such event, 100% of that amount which shall be determined by: 1. Dividing the lineal feet of frontage of the subject affected tract by the lineal feet of frontage of Oakmont Parkway (Project No. 21-36503) to which deferred payments are applicable. 2 . Multiply the number so derived by the original cost of all deferred payment items. ( $4B0.,271-'.53 ) . shall be due and payable. The entire amount assessed against the particular parcels of property shall bear interest from the date of such completion and acceptance of the improvements at the rate of six (6%) per annum, payable annually on the day and month of such completion and acceptance of the improvements on the unit on which the particular property abuts . Provided, however, that any owner shall have the right to pay the entire assessment, or any installment thereof, before maturity by payment of principal and accrued interest, and provided further that if default shall be made in the payment of principal or interest promptly as the same matures, then the entire amount of the assessment upon which such default is made shall, at the option of the City of Fort Worth, or its assigns, be and become immediately due and payable, and shall be collectable, together with reasonable attorney's fees and cost of collection, if incurred. VI . If default shall be made in the payment of any assessment, collection thereof shall be enforced either by the sale of the pro- perty by the Assessor and Collector of Taxes of said City as near as possible in the same manner provided for the sale of property for the non-payment of ad valorem taxes, or at the option of the City of Fort Worth, or its assigns, payment of said sums shall be enforced by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction, or as provided in any mechanic's or materialman's contract as aforesaid, and said City shall exercise all of its lawful powers to aid in the enforcement and col- lection of said assessments. Said certificates shall further recite that the City of Fort Worth, Texas shall exercise all of its lawful powers, when requested so to do, to aid in the enforcement and collection thereof, and may contain recitals sub- stantially in accordance with the above and other additional recitals pertinent or appropriate thereof, and it shall not be necessary that the recitals be in the exact form above set forth, but the substance thereof shall be sufficient. The fact that such improvements may be omitted on any portion of any of said units adjacent to any premises exempt from the lien of such assessments shall not in anywise invalidate, affect or impair the lien of such assessments upon other premises. X. Full power to make and levy reassessments and to correct mistakes, errors, invalidities or irregularities, either in the assessments or in the certificates issued in evidence thereof,is,in accordance with the law in force in this City,vested in the City. XI. All assessments levied are a personal liability and charge against the real and true owners of the premises described, notwithstanding such owners may not be named, or may be incorrectly named. XII. The assessments so levied are for the improvements in the particular unit upon which the property described abuts, and the assessments for the improvements in any unit are in nowise affected by the improve- ments or assessments in any other unit, and in making assessments and in holding said hearing, the amounts assessed for improvements in any one unit have been in nowise connected with the improvements or the assess- ments therefor in any other unit. XIII. The assessments levied are made and levied under and by virtue of the terms, powers and provisions of an 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 and 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. XIV. 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 of Fort Worth, Texas, and by filing the complete Ordinance in the appro- priate Ordinance Records of said City. xv. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage and it is so ordained. PASSED AND APPROVED this _day of C!r."4401 1979 APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: VAU.,ncy PROJECT NO. 21-36503, OAKMONT PARKWAY FROM HULEN STREET WEST APPROXIMATELY 5,286 FEET TO THE WEST LINE OF THE C. 0. EDWARDS PROPERTY, to be improved by constructing a ten-inch thick hot- mix asphaltic concrete pavement on a six-inch thick lime stabilized subgrade with seven-inch high concrete curb and eighteen-inch wide concrete gutter. The finished roadway will consist of two twenty-six foot traffic lanes with a forty-eight foot median. Four-inch thick concrete sidewalk will be constructed where specified. BLOCK OWNER LOT ZONING FRONTAGE RATE AMOUNT ASSESSMENT SOUTH SIDE JOSEPH B. McDERMOTT SURVEY Santa Fe Land Tract 2 1,472' Pavement $45.65 $67,196.80 Improvement Co. Vol. 3784, 1,467' Curb & gutter 8.60 12,616.20 Room 514, Santa Fe Bldg. Page 91 900 Polk South Abst.#1063 Deferred payment. . . . . . . . .$79,813.00 Amarillo, Texas 79171 Ind. Attn: W. C. Merritt, Div. Manager Tesco 94.26' No benefit -0- Santa Fe Land Tract 2 2,823.74' Adjusted to: (Drainage easement) Improvement Co. Vol. 3784, 2,549.74' Pavement $45.65 $116,395.63 Room 514, Santa Fe Bldg. Page 91 2,529.74' Curb & gutter 8.60 21,755.76 900 Polk South Abst.#1063 Amarillo, Texas 79171 Ind. Deferred payment. . . . . .$138,151.39 Attn: W. C. Merritt, Div. Manager JOHN F. HEATH SURVEY Oakmont Dev. Corp. Tract 1 753.33' Pavement $45.65 $34,389.51 C/O C. Albert Tatum III Vol. 6645, 753.33' Curb & gutter 8.60 6,478.64 2001 Bryan Tower Page 912 $40,868.15 Dallas, Texas 75201 Abst.#641 Unzoned NORTH SIDE JOHN F. HEATH SURVEY Cass Overton Edwards II, Tract 1 819' Pavement $45.65 $370387.35 Eva Colleen Edwards Geren Vol. 2929, 819' Curb & gutter 8.60 7,043.40 & Mary E. Hook Kelly Page 102 4500 Bellaire Drive S. Abst.#641 Deferred payment. . . . . . . . . . .$44,430.75 Fort Worth, Texas 76109 Unzoned 1. PROJECT NO. 21-36503, OAKMONT PARKWAY FROM HULEN STREET WEST APPROXIMATELY 5,286 FEET TO THE WEST LINE OF THE C. 0. EDWARDS PROPERTY, Continued ZONING OWNER LOT BLOCK FRONTAGE RATE AMOUNT ASSESSMENT NORTH SIDE J. WILCOX SURVEY, SCHULTZ SURVEY & J. BURNETT SURVEY Cass Overton Edwards II& Tract 1 2,700' Adjusted to: (Drainage easement) Eva Colleen Edwards Geren Vol. 1129, 2,563' Pavement $45.65 $1175,000.95 4500 Bellaire Drive S. Page 620 2,558' Curb & gutter 8.60 21,998.80 Fort Worth, Texas 76109 Abst.#1742 Unzoned Deferred payment. . . . . . . . .$138,999.75 Tesco 94.26' No benefit -0- Cass Overton Edwards II & Tract 1 1,557.74' Adjusted to: (Drainage easement) Eva Colleen Edwards Geren Vol. 1129, 1,454.74' Pavement $45.65 $66,408.88 4500 Bellaire Drive S. #40 Page 620 1,449.74 Curb & gutter 8.60 12,467.76 Fort Worth, Texas 76109 Abst.#1742 Unzoned Deferred payment. . . . . .$78,876.64 TOTAL COST TO PROPERTY OWNERS (ASSESSMENTS) (DEFERRED PAYMENT) . . .$ 480,271.53 TOTAL COST TO PROPERTY OWNERS (ASSESSMENTS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 40,868.15 TOTAL COST TO CITY OF FORT WORTH (STREETS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 440,866.08 TOTAL COST TO CITY OF FORT WORTH (STORM DRAIN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 315,270.95 TOTAL ESTIMATED CONSTRUCTION COST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .$1,277,276.71 2. Ixi1.E � FIIERCHyM pity ®f Fort Worth, Texas BAILIFF Mayor and Council Communication SMITH DONE$ DATE REFERENUMBENCE SUBJECT: Benefit Hearing - Oakmont Parkway PAGE Paving and Drainage Improvements Iof 2 �SILARDI9129179 G-4309 Revised On August 14, 1979 (M&C C-4751), the City Council declared the necessity for and ordered the improvements on Oakmont Parkway, Project No. 021-36503-00 as described below. A construction contract was awarded to Texas Bitulithic Company in the amount of $1,193,716.55 and September 11, 1979, was set as the date for the Benefit Hearing. All adjacent property owners were notified of the hearing by certified mail on August 27, 1979. Project Description Street Limits Roadway Width R.O.W. Width Oakmont Parkway Hulen Street to West 2-26' Lanes 120' 5,286' 48' Median Origin of Project This project was initiated in conjunction with Community Facilities Contract No. 10565, Oakmont Park Estates, approved April 3, 1979 (M&C C-4600). Oakmont Boulevard is the main traffic artery leading to the development from Hulen Street. Improvements Oakmont Parkway is not presently open on the ground. Improvements will include construction of major thoroughfare grade hot-mix asphaltic concretes .,avement with concrete curb and gutter and driveway approaches where required on a double 26' wide roadway with a 48' wide median. Storm drain improvements will include approximately 566' of storm drain pipe and appurtenances and two 8' X 4' double box 'culverts. Assessments and Enhancements Based on Standard Policy and special provisions of M&C C-3841, dated June 13, 1978, it is proposed that approximately $480,271.53 be assessed against properties adjacent to Oakmont Boulevard on a deferred payment basis, which provides that assessments become due and Payable at such time as the land is developed or sold and/or ten years from date of lien. The assessments will bear 6% interest per annum against the principal,and partial releases may be obtained by payment of the principal pro-rated in accordance with the length of the property abutting Oakmont Boulevard. The property along the north side of Oakmont Parkway is owned by the Edward's heirs. The property is unzoned and is being assessed the commercial rate of $54.25 per front foot under the deferred payment basis. Present plans are to request commercial and/or apartment zoning at such time as the land develops. However, the owners have requested that, should they not be granted commercial and/or apartment zoning by the City at a later date and be forced to accept residential zoning, the assessment rate be reduced to $40.78 per front foot, DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT: Benefit Hearing - Oakmont Parkway PAGE � NUMBER Paving and Drainage Improvements 9/25/79 G-4309(Revised 2 °' 2 which is the residential rate for a developer on this project. Based on standard .policy, normal assessments proposed to be assessed against the developer's property adjacent to Oakmont Boulevard amounts to approximately $40,868.15, to be r6paid in accordance with standard policy (49 months) con- sisting of five annual payments with 6% interest per annum on the unpaid balance. It is the opinion of the Public Works Director that all adjacent properties will be enhanced in value by an amount equal to or greater than the proposed assess- ments as a result of the street and storm drain improvements. Recommendations It is recommended that: 1. An ordinance be adopted closing the hearing and levying the assessments as proposed; 2. City Council stipulate that if the Edward's heirs property is denied commercial and/or apartment zoning, the assessment rate be reduced to $40.78 per front foot adjacent to Oakmont Parkway. 091 VS:plg Attachment �L �tir , >�Sw' t z�,f up G/ SUBMITTED FOR THE /L� DISPOSITIO BY COUNCIL: PROCESSED BY CITY MANAGER'S I ( // OFFICE BY: APPR YLENATING �pDrEg^DEAORIGI TMNT HEAD: Keith A. Smith ADOPTED ORWi, ii r IIId. qwA ET 7Q® SECRETARY FOR ADDITIONAL INFOR TI //I�(�/ � �'�":!;-��: ,1 ��� '�t '' CONTACT: �de�� Schmidt, Ext. 7805 ��' JATEt