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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 4902 OFFICIAL RECORD ORDINANCE NO. 10 SECRUAR1 R MA Im AN.ORDINANCE APPROVING AND ADOPTING ESTIMATES OF COST OF IMPROVEMENTS AND OF AMOUNTS TO BE ASSESSED FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON A PORTION OF WABASH AVENUE AND SEMINARY! DRIVE 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 01INERS OF ABUTTING PROPERTY-AND TO ALL OTHERS INTERESTED;DIRECTING THE CITY SECRETARY TO GIVE NOTICE OF SUCH HEAR- ING; 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 improved by raising, grading and filling same and by constructing thereon the following, to-wit: 1. WABASH AVENUE: From Trail Lake Drive to Seminary Drive, Known and Designated as Unit No, 1, a two (2) inch Hot-Mix Asphalt Concrete Surface on an sight (8)'inch cement stabilized gravel base on a forty (40) foot roadway. 2. SEXfINARY DRIVE: From Cherokee Trail to the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad, Known and Desig- nated as Unit No. 2, a two (2) inch Hot-Mix Asphalt Concrete Surface on an eight (8) inch cement stabilized gravel base on a channelized sixty (60) foot roadway. together with combined concrete curbs and gutters on proper grade and line where same are not already so constructed, together with storm sewers and drains and other necessary incidentals and appurtenances; all of said improvements to be constructed as ana,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 ode Constructions 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 improve- ments and estimates of the amounts 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 street, avenue and public place hereinafter described, with the amount or amounts per front foot proposed to be assessed for such improvements against abutting property and the owners thereof, are as follows, to-wit: 1. Wabash Avenue: From Trail Lake Drive to Seminary Drive Seminary Drive: From Cherokee Trail to Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad. The estimated- cost of improvements is $ 71,050.88 ; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for combined concrete curb and gutter is $ 1_7,4 ; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for improvements exclusive of curb and gutter is $ 4.77 ; the total estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is 2. The estimated cost of improvements is $ the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for combined concrete curb and gutter is $ ; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for improvements exclusive of curb and gutter is $ ; the total estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is $ 3. The estimated cost of improvements is $ ; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for combined concrete curb and gutter is $ the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for improvements exclusive of curb and gutter is $ ; the 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 said portions of 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__.j.Qi day of .Tina , 19 61 , at 9:00 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 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 shown as Article 1105b of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes. Such notice shall be by advertisement at least three times in a newspaper published in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, the first publication to be made at least ten days before the date of said hearing. Said notice shall comply with and be in accordance with the terms and provisions of said. Act. The City Secretary is further directed to give personal notice of the time and place of such hearing to all owning or claiming any property abutting on said portions of streets, avenues and public places, as well as to all owning or claiming any interest in any such property. Such personal notice shall be given by the City Secretary mailing said notice postage prepaid, to the respective owners of record of the properties to be assessed, and to any person owning or claiming any interest in said properties, to the last known address of said owner or persons. It shall not be necessary for the City Secretary to mail said notices to any owner or other person claiming an interest in the property to be assessed when the address of such owner or other person claiming an interest in the property to be assessed is un- known to the City Secretary and cannot be determined by the City Secretary after reasonable investigation. In this connection the City Secretary shall prepare and file 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 address of the respective owners and those persons owning or claiming any inter- est in said property. The City Secretary shall certify that each of the parties named in said list.whose address was known to him, 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 the notice shall be attached to such certificate. The certificate of the City Secretary will be conclusive evidence of the facts therein recited. Failure of the City Secretary to give notice of hearing by mail as herein provided for, or failure of the owners or other persons interested to re- ceive said notice, shall in nowise invalidate said hearing or any assessments levied pursuant to said hearing, but notice of hearing shall be sufficient, valid and binding upon all own- ing or claiming such abutting property or any interest therein when same shall have been given by newspaper advertisement as first hereinabove provided. 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 day of X 4d , 19.. -r. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: City Attorney