HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 012253A - Street Improvements - City Engineer - GWO 721 - 01/22/1953G.W.O. 721
RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR IMPROVEbi'IT OF PORTIONS OF STREETS, HIGHWAYS,
AND/OR AITENUES AND FOR THE IMTROVE xMTT ATPD WIDENIrG OT CERTAIN PORTIO,TS OF
S7= S, HIGHWAYS AND/011 AVENUES IN THIS CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, AND ALONG THE
BOUNDARY OF SAID CITY, AND DIRECTING PREPARATION OF PLATYS AND SPEC ='ICATIONS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMISSI011 OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, THAT:
I.
Public necessity
exists that the following portions of streets, highways,
avenues and/or alleys in
the City of Lubbock and along the boundaries thereof,
be improved or improved
and widened as herein provided,
to—wit:
42nd Street
from
WPL Avenue S to
WPL Avenue T
64th Street
from
WPL Avenue `a^ to
EPL Avenue U
Avenue V
from
SPL 6th Street to
NPL 7th Street
36th Street
from
EPL Louisville Ave. to
EPL Memphis Avenue
Detroit Avenue
from
NPL 2nd Street to
SPL lst Place
22nd Place
from
WPL Memphis Avenue to
WPL Nashville Avenue
40th Street
from
WPL Avenue U to
EPL Avenue X
Joliet Avenue
from
SPL 23rd Street to
NPL 24th Street
41st Street
from
West Paving L.Ave.H to
WPL Avenue J
Memphis Avenue
from
SPL 32nd Street to
Nk 33rd Street
37th Street
from
WPL Elgin Avenue to
WPL Flint Avenue
38th Street
from
West Gutter Line Ave.A to
WPL Avenue B
49th Street
from
WPI, .Avenue T to
WPL Avenue U
Avenue P
from
SPL 59th St.(East Leg)to
SPL 61st St.(West Leg)
36th Street
from'
WPL Flint Avenue to
EPL Hartford .Avenue
41st Street
from
E.Paving Line Ave.H to
W.Paving Line Ave. D
Juniper Avenue
from
S.Paving Line Railroad
Avenue to
N.Paving Line 34th Street
Avenue K (widening)
from
S.Gutter Line 16th St.to
N.Gutter Line 19th Street
35th Street
from
E.Paving Line Ave.H to
WPL Avenue G
Avenue G
from
S.Paving Line 34th St.to
SPL 35th St.(West Leg)
Avenue H (widening)
from
SPL 30th St.(East Leg)to
SPL 33rd St.(West Leg)
Quaker Avenue
from
NPL 30th Street to
N.Paving Line 34th St.
21st Street
from
WPL Knoxville Avenue to
EPL Louisville Avenue
36th Street
from
East Line Ft.Worth & Denver City Railway Co. R.O.W.
adjacent to Avenue L
to
WPL Avenue J
Fordham Street
from
WPL Elgin Avenue to
EPL Flint Avenue
Avenue U
from
S.Gutter Line 40th St.to
NPL 46th Street
46th Street
from
EPL Avenue U to
EPL College Avenue
Avenue P
from
NPL 50th Street to
N.Paving Line Ave."Q"South
Drive
N. AA�on Avenue
from
SPL Emory Street to
SPL Dartmouth Avenue
Athens Avenue
from
NPL alley between Cornell
& Dartmouth Sts. to
N.Gutter Line of Cornell St.
Auburn Street
from
WPL Flint Avenue to
W.Gutter Line of Gary Avenue
East 31st. Street
from
W. Paving Line of Railroad Avenue
to
EPL Juniper Avenue
II.
Said portions of streets, highways and/or avenues shall be improved or
improved and widened by raising, grading and filling same, by installing concrete
curb and gutters, by installing storm sewers and drains where necessary, by
installing a compacted caliche base and by surfacing with quadruple asphaltic
surface treatment (Penetration types.
III.
The City Engineer is hereby directed to prepare plans and specifications
for such improvements.
IV.
Such improvements in each unit shall be paid for in the following manner:
(a) Railways and street railways using, occupying or crossing any portion
of said streets, highways, avenues to be improved shall be assessed for and shall
pay for all of the cost of the work in the area between their rails and tracks,
double tracks, turnouts and switches and two feet on each side thereof.
(b) The abutting property and owners thereof shall pay and shall be assessed
for all the cost of constructing curbs in front of such respective property and a
part of the remaining cost of such improvements, after deducting the sums to be
paid by the railways under sub—paragraph (a) above, provided that such part of the
costs assessed to the abutting property or owners thereof shall not exceed 90%
of the cost of the improvements plus the cost of the curb, and further provided
that if it shall appear at the hearing to be had before final assessment is made
that the special benefits to such property by way of enhancement value thereof
by means of such improvements will not aggregate such proportion of the cost as
specified above, then there shall be assessed and be paid by such abutting property
and the owners thereof, a lesser amount not to exceed the benefits.
(c) The remaining cost of said improvements, after deducting the sums finally
assessed against railways and street railways under sub—paragraph (a) hereof,
and against abutting property and the owners thereof under sub—paragraph (b) above:,
shall be paid by the City of Lubbock.
V.
The amounts assessed against and to be paid by railways and street railways
for work between rails and tracks and 2 feet on each side thereof shall be paid
on estimates or statements on or before ten days after acceptance of the improve—
ments in the unit in which the railway lies, by the City Commission and shall bear
interest from date due and until paid at the rate of 6% per annum. The amounts
assessed against and to be paid by the abutting property and the owners thereof
shall be payable in three equal installments: the first of which shall become due
on or before 10 days after completion and acceptance of the improvements in the
unit on which the property abuts by the City Commission; the second and third one
and two years respectively after completion and acceptance of the improvements in
the unit upon which the property abuts, by the City Commission, and shall bear
interest from the date of completion and acceptance until paid, at the rate of six
percent per annum, payable annually, with provisions that if default be made in tho
payment of any installment promptly ab the same matures: then at the option of the
holder of such assessment or certificate issued in evidence thereof, such default
shall mature the entire assessment upon which same is made.
VI.
Assessments shall be made and levied, and shall be a first and prior
lien and personal liability for principal, interest, reasonable attorney's fees
and costs of collection, if incurred, all under and in accordance with the
Charter, and amendments thereto, now in force in this City, and in accordance
with the provisions of Article 1105 B Revised Civil Statutes of Texas as amended
by Chapter 281 Acts of the 52nd Legislature.
VII.
This Resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
PASSED AYD APPROVED THIS 22nd DA71 OZ' January .19 53 .
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LLowe, itySecretary
A 10VED:
Vaughn E. Wilson, City Attorney
APPROVED:
W. B. Holmes, City Engineer