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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 5231 ORDINANCE NO. ORDINANCE CLOSING HEARING AND LEVYING ASSESSMENTS FOR PART OF THE COST OF IMPROVING A PORTION OF- 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. WHI]REAS, the City of Fort Worth, Texas, has t:eretf,)fore otAered that each of the hereinafter described lac".tlons of streets, avenues and public p1aces in t1ie City of Fort Woi,th, Texas, be improved by raising, grading, or M1inL ,,;an,1'eand by constructing thereon to-wit 1. Bishop Street: From Vaughn Boulevard to Emerson Street, knovin and designated as part of Unit No. 19 a 11 inch hot-mix asphaltic concrete sur- face on a 6 inch hot-mix asphaltic concrete base, = a 441 roadway. 2, Vaughn Boulevard: Beginning at a point 1771 southeast of south line of Reed Street to north line Lot 13, Block 6, Meadowlawn Addition, known and designated as part of Unit No. 1$ a li inch hot-mix asphaltic concrete sur- face on a 6 inch hot -mix asphaltic concrete based on a variable roadway(301to 409- 3. Wichita Street: From Vaughn Boulevard to approximately 273 feet southwesterlyj known and designated as part of Unit No. 1, a 11 2 inch hot-mix asp- haltic concrete surface on a 6 inch hot-mix asphaltic concrete based as a 441 roadway. OFFICIAL Rf"TORD I CITY SECRETARY F 1". W011"I"I"i, Ta. . . The above, 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- nueota are to be so constructed as and where abovvo on the plans and in strict accordance with the Plans and � Specifications therefor: and contract has been made and entered into vvith for the making and ouuatruoboo 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 plonme were prepared and filed and approved and adopted by the City (]0000il of the City, and a time and place was fixed for u hearing and the proper notice,of the time, D\uoe 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 day of__`' , 19L'h 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 -pm teotedtbut _--protested that protested that teotedthut -protested that and said hearing was continued to the present time in order to more fully accomplish the purposes thereof, and -ill desiring to be heard were given full and fait, opportunity to be heard, and the City Council of the City having fully v 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 11' ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THAT: i. Said licaring 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 riot, be and the same are hereby, overruled. The Cit.V ('01-11161, from the evidence, finds that the assessments Herein levied should be made and levied against the respective parcels Of IWOpeFtY abutting upon the said portions of streets, avenues and public places and against. the owners, of such property, and that SLIC11 assessments and charges are right and proper and are substantially in proportion to the benefits to the respective parcels of property by means of the improvements in the unit for WhiC11 such assessments are levied, and establish substantial justice and equality and uniformity between the lie respective owners of the respective properties, and between all parties concerned, considering the benefits received and burdens imposed, and further find-, that in each case the abutting property assessed is specially benefited in enhanced Value to the Said J)ropertv 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 ordina rice, and further finds that theapportion- nient or the cost of the improvements is in accordance with the law in force in this City, in(] the proceedings of the City lieretofore had with reference to said improvements, and is in all respects valid and regular. III. There shall he, and is herebv, levied and assessed against the parcels of property herein below mentioned, and against the real and true owners thereof (whether such owners be correctly v named herein or not) the sums of nioneY itemized below opposite the description of the respective parcels of property and the several amounts ass owners are known, being as follows: assessed against the same, and the ownei-s. thereof. as far AS sUCI) IV. Where than firm or corporation owns an interest i bo 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 property may be released from the assessment ",u uvvu pay- ment of such proportionate sum. V. The several aurnm above mentioned and uaaeaaed against the said parcels of property, and the owners thereof, and interest that the rate of ai t (6(f) per annum, together with reasonable attorney's fees and costs of collection, if ioourrcd, are hereby declared to be and are made u lien upon the respective parcels of property &gainst which the auzue are assessed, and u personal liability and charge against the real and true owners of such property, n/hetbm, such owners be correctly ounned herein or not, and the said liens shall be and constitute the first enforceable lien and o|uiru against the property on which such uxmeeaouents are levied, and abuU he u first and paramount lien tbereon, superior to all other liens and claims, except State, County, School District and City ad valorem taxes. The ouruu so uaaoaaed against the abutting property and the owners thereof shall be and become due and payable as follows, to wit' in five (5) equal iootaUnoaote due respectively o or before thirty (30) days, one (1) two (2), three (3), and four (4) years from the date of completion and acceptance 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 (61,( ) per annum, payable annually with each install- ment, except as to the'first installment, 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 pi-ovided 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 wiih i-easonable attorne'v's fees and cost of collection, if incurred, PROVIDED, however, that acting through its duly authorized Director of Public Wovks the City of Fort Worth retains the right to authorize payment of the sums assesed against abutting propert'y upon such completed 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 �ecome due and payable not more tkan thirty (30) days after the completion and acceptance by the City of the particular unit. PROVIDED FURTHER, that the Cit'v Attorne'v is hereby empowered to authorize payments of said sums of lesser installments and/or u |oo�er period of time in cases in which the Director of Public Works has previously determined that an esb'ecoe financial hardship upon the property owner will otherwise result; and PROVIDED lrOIITDED, that such method of payments ehu|\ be authorized only in instances where the owner orowners of property abutting upon such completed and accepted unit shall have executed and delivered to the City fFort Worth u |uwfu|, valid and hindincr note and nuechuoi/u and routeriu|noan`a contract upon ƒornoa supplied by the City bngu mechanic's lien upon and couve>in- the said abutting property in trust tosecure the px/roeot h!' said owner or owners urcordino to the terms thereof of the sums assessed against such propertY. ��. If default shall be made in the pa/rnent of any uam�ysnieot' collection thereof ahxD be enforced either by the sale of the prnpert h the Assessor and [oDector of Taxes of said City as near as possible in the aunueman- ner provided for the ou\e of p/nVert' for the non'pu?noeot of ad valorem tuxea. or at the i of the City of Fort Worth, or its ayaigoa, nt of said aucna shall be enforced by suit in any court of competent jurisdic- tion, or as provided in any mechanic's or mutezio|nuao'a contract as uforeooid, and said City shall exercise all of its lawful powers to aid in the enforcement and collection of said uoaesunumnta. VII. The total amount assessed against the respective parcels of abutting property, and the owners thereof, is in accordance with the proceedings of the City relating to said improvements and assessments thereof, and is less than the proportion of the cost allowed and permitted by the law in force in the City. VIII. Although the aforementioned charges have been fixed, levied, and assessed in the respective amounts hereinabove stated, the City Council does hereby reserve unto itself the right to reduce the aforementioned assessments by allowing credits to certain property owners where deemed appropriate. Notwithstanding the City Council has herein reserved the right to issue credits, it shall not be required to issue credits, and will not do so, if same would result in any equity and/or unjust discrimination. "'1 7he principal amount of each of the several assessment certificates to be issued the City of Fort, 'North, Texas, as hereinafter provided, shall be fixed and determined by deducting from the amount of any assessment hereinabove levied such amount or amounts, if any, as may hereafter be allowed by the City Council as a credit against the respective assessments. M erty and For the owners purpose ofe evidencing the time s and 1,sums assessed against the respective parcels of abuttin prop- f a � s payment, and to aid in the enforcement and colection thereof, assignable certificates in the principal amount of the respective assessments less the amount of any re- spective credit allowed thereon, shall be issued by the City of Fort Worth, Texas, upon completion and accept- ance by the City of the improvements in each unit of improvement as the work in such unit is completed and accepted, which certificates shall be executed by the mayor in the name of the City and attested by the City Secretary, with the corporate seal of the City impressed thereon, and shall be payable to they City of Fort Worth, or its assigns, and shall declare the said amounts, time and terms of payment, rate of interest, and the date of the completion and acceptance of the improvements abutting upon such property for which the certificate is issued, and shall contain the name of the owner or owners, if known, description of the property by lot and block number, or front feet thereon, or such other desciption as may otherwise identify the same; and if the said property shall be owned by an estate, then the description of same as so owned shall be sufficient and no error or mistake in describing any property, or in giving the name of the owner, shall invalidate or in anywise impair such certificate, to the assessments levied. The certificates shall provide substant.iall'v that if same shall not be paid promptly upon maturity, then they shall be collectable, with reasonable attorney's fees and costs of collection, if incurred, and shall provide substantially that the amounts evidenced thereby shall ba�m paid to the assessor and Collector of Taxes of the City- of Fort Worth, Texas, who shall issue his receipt therefor, which ;hall be evidence of such payment on any demand for the same, and the Assessor and Collector of Taxes ,hall deposit the sums so received by him forth- with with the City Treasurer to be kept and held by him in a separate fund, and when any payment shall be made in the City the Assessor and Collector of Taxes upon such certificate shall, upon presentation to him of the certificate by the holder thereof endorse said payment thereof. if such certificate be assigned then the holder thereof shall be entitled to receive from the City Treaaemurer the amount paid upon the presentation to him of such certificate so endorsed and credited; and such endorsement and credit shall be the Treasurer's Warrant for making such payment. Such payments by the 'i a eaa amm°c;aa° fdmll be remceipted for the holder of such certificate in writing and by surrender thereof when the principal, tool'ether with accrued interest and all costs of collection and reasonable attorney's fees, if incurred, have been paid in full. Said certificates shall further recite sulaasbMtially that the proceedings with reference to making the improvements have been regularly had in compliance with the law, and that all prerequisites to the fixing of the assessment lien against the property described in such certificate and the personni liability of the owners thereof have been performed, and such recitals shall lase. priniaa facie evidence of all the naatteWrs recited in such certificates, and no further proof thereof shall be required in aanv court. Said certificates may have coupons attached they veto in evidence o[' each or any- of the several installments thereof, or may have coupons for each of t1he h °st four in F[,�;allrnen'ts, le��aa aa�v the main certificate to serve for the fifth installment, which coupons may be payaNe to the Uipy of Fort \,"ror'th, or its assigns may be signed with the facsimile signatures of the Mayor and Cit,v Secretarlv. 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 he 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 ments therefor in any other unit. 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, X11. 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. X1111 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. 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A mwm mighbo l oo hearing was hold on July 13, 1964, at akl;,Ymw n Elementary School. The project awasists of the following: ROADWAY' � w S TH ',' AWK MAS Emerson Street b Vaughn BDUIevard Beginning 177 ;feed southeast of 'Reed Street, to the nartb line of l ,, �Meadowlawn Addition ' to 40' 501 60' � Wichita Street From Vaughn B# Y evard sout'l w mesa tel 273 feet � ' ' 55' - 69 'The assessments reflect specie; benefits to the m mom m rs, of Imts 7A mt n l BA a 1 and 8B, hes4oulava Addition, Messrs. G.V. Wilson and (May B. Varxisp rigbt- of-vay, for time project on hArch 6, 1964 (M&C 1-350). At that time„ it vine recognized that h e adjacent commercially zDned properties oul be ene "ley the aqq sition, of the residue lots. zoned - a m ,y� whicb, ',too t have added materially, to tl.ie vdlue of a mmm lAing City-owned residue. Pro- y assiessments Pro-on lots 7A, Ill* RAO and 8B were first computed as"l.,mm, �tbe xesidential gate and allovlmg shallow lot credits. However, the assess,- J,ents have e recomputed using the silent al but rakwi g the hallov lot credits inview of the benefits to ` he pxoperty by virtue .he adjacent propexties urnder comah)* ownership. Additional information pertaining to the assessments is provided in Attachinewit "A,". It is believed th seh parcel of prope t is mom Fite , in sn m mm atrot equal ko mix in excess e s of Y m ammm unt recommended fo assessment. It is recommended h an ordinance adopted closing the hearing and OFFICIAt CITY SECRETARY F . WORTap " EX i ; • . ( i � r . w.. . . ` . d� BI