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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 4508 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AND ADOPTING ESTIMATES OF THE COST OF IMPROVEMENTS AND OF AMOUNTS TO BE ASSESSED FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON A PORTION OF MEADOWBROOK DRIVE AND A PORTION OF OAKHILL ROAD 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 THIS CITY. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, has heretofore ordered that each of the hereinafter described portions of Meadowbrook Drive and Oakhill Road in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, be improved by raising, grading and filling same and by constructing thereon a 6 inch Hot Mix Asphaltic Concrete Pavement laid on a prepared subbase 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 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 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: Section 1. Such estimates be, and they are hereby, adopted and approved. Section 2. It is hereby found and determined that the cost of improve- ments on each portion of street 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: On MEADOWBROOK DRIVE: from the east line of Weiler Boulevard to the east line of Oakhill Road, known and designated as Unit No. 1: the estimated cost of the improvements is $43,484.50; OFFICIAL RECORD CITY SECRETARY FT. WORTH, TEX. • 1 the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for curb and gutter is $1.70; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for improve- ments exclusive of curb and gutter is $5.92; total estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is $7.62. On OAKHILL ROAD: from the northerly line of Meadowbrook Drive to the southerly line of Lot 1, Block 1, Brentwood Hills Addition, known and designated as Unit No. 2: the estimated cost of the improvements is $51,250.50; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for curb and gutter is $1.70; the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof for improvements exclusive of curb and gutter is $5.92; total estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is $7.62. Section 3. 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 the hereinabove described portion of Meadowbrook Drive and oakhill Road, as well as to all owning or claiming any interest in any sppch property. Such hearing shall be given and held on the day of e,e, 1961, at ,', o'clock, 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 Te xas, 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 inserted at least three times in a newspaper published in the City of Fort Worth, Te xas, 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 Meadowbrook Drive and Oakhill Road, 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 any such property, to the last known address of said owner or persons. It shall not be necessary for the City Secretary to mail said notice to any owner or other person claiming an interest in the property to be assessed when the address of such owner or other person is unknown 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 prop- erties 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 interest 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 shall 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 receive 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 owning or claiming such abutting prop- erty or any interest therein when same shall have been given by newspaper advertisement as first hereinabove provided. Section 4. 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. Section 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: _.�6 2, ra,4�- City Attorney. 3 - CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS THE SUBJECT 14ATTER OF THIS M.Bc C.C. 6'AS IdPr D TO THE CITY COUNCIL A G ' t Y Members of ttr, e; + City of fort Mrs. Mc1(n" Oh 1 and G,+wtiman; On Hovvmber 4, 1960, a contract In the Amount t+ 3 , by assessment of Meadowbrook Oriva and Oakhi l i Rb4d was Bitullthic Company. The cmir-ector haS campletpto ttL$ m0nt Procedures and regvests a dots be �j@t for the b ra the basIs of the contract , 1t Is estimated that the [I cost xi I I be 540,483.00 and tha proper7-v owi7tf 's she, e The total astFinatad cost of Improvemont, �.,F, Meadowbroo and the antlr:ipated cost of t6a Uekkhi I I Read lrn9rcyem9n Moadowbrpok Dr i ve artd {)rjkh i I I Rood i n the 9 area 6ry harrow, high rand sett i ons and represent a traffic hazard in their pripsent cor,d7 sr1. fhesa streets were not constructed to handle the presant tree#ic vol rLQr 'the anticipated traffic i rcrvass. During the Past three and one,ha If f Years, there have been eleven traffic accidertits. one of which resulted in a fetalltY, within the IiMTts Of the PrOP090d OrDiect+ The wldening and psvi ng of these streets w i I I eliminate th# hayzirdolls COfidl-1 nn which now exists. A Petition requesting the poving was Submitted by the Easterly Hi I l� Dads Club, Slghed by 580 residents of the area. These streets servo both i the resiftnts of this area and t Elwstern H11 f,s Elementary end High Schools. However. only three Rr-opet`ty owners abutting the project STgnad thQ petition and 0 is antici#ate# That thara wi l I ba W006-t ;, , I a project presented byttLQ alt#tsag or'up#rt-.f cwrmrs. — I t i S thaee t6rs reccxan n68 d that the #o l l ow i ng ordinances be adopted In the fol 1Owi ng Sequence- I. Ordl rneficq en+endi rig Ordi nar�cas 4374 and 4390 to c i eri fy the. IiMiis to be paved; 2. Ordiiimme approving the estimates of cast and amar.nts to bs 83501sed and setting September ife, i�j I as the dates for the tend It h9ar-i ng. Raspec tfi,l Ty submi 1 ted, Ul ty Manager