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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 122211 - Paving Cost Estimate - L.A. Hitchcock, City Engineer - N 1St And Broadway - 12/22/1911 Best Available Scan On motion of occonded by the following resolution was unanimouoly a-- dVp ted• RESOLUTION DETERMINING THE NECESSITY OF ASSESSING THE COST OF IMPROVING NORTH FIRST STREET AND BROADWAY IN THE CITY OF LUBBOCK BY CONSTRUCTING AND PUTTING IN FOURTEEN FOOT CONCRETE SIDEWALKS IN FRONT OF AND ABUTTING LOTS �l �' l 7JA* /0 5r ON NORTH FIRST STREET AND LOTS NUMBERED D_iZA-,,.._-I Z Z__ IN BLOCK NO. ���OB BROADWAY AGAIfiST THE OW9ER8 ON SAID PROPERTY AND THEIP, PROPERTY'.AND ORDERING A HEARING OF OWNERS OF SAID PROPERTY', AND NBTICE THEREOF AND FIXING THE TIME AND PLACE FOR SUCH HEARING: -- BF IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK,' TEXAS: - Whereas, the City Council has heretofore, by resolution directed the improvement of North First Street and Broadway by the con- struction of fourteen foot concrete sidewalks in front of and abutting Lots Numbered f j _ '► /,2 A& Borth First Street and Lots Numbered ..�_j,1 in Block No. � on Broadway; and, ivhcroaa, thereafter plans and specifications were pre- , pared by L ;1.1 __Hitchcock, consulting engineer, for said improvem(bnois , and advertisements were made for bids therefor, and thereafter bila were received therefor, and opened and considered by the City Council and thereafter the bid of Wilmer -ring and Mullen for the said worg of improve- ment was adopted by the Council; and, whereas, thereafter said Engineer prepared and filed with the Council his report, stating the total cost of such improvement and the proportion of such costs payable by kks each owner of said abutting property and the costs of such improvement per front foot of abutting property, and the names of the persons, firms, corporations and estates owning the property abutting on the proposed im- provement, with a description of their property, and the total costs of such improvement to each parcel of property; and, whereas, said report was approved by the Council by resolution; and, Whereas„ the City Council has finally determined to assess the cost of said improvement against the owners of the said abutting property and their property: - 1. That it is finally determined hereby to assess the cost of said Y:. 2. improvement against the owners of the property abutting upon said streets and their property, as herein provided. That a hearing shall be given be- fore the City Council to the owners of said abutting property, their at-� torneys or agents, which hearing shall be held in at the Council Chamber in the City of Lubbock, Texas, on the. _day of December, A.8.1011, at_ --o'clock -M., and shall continue from dayx1axAzy time to time and day to day, until all persons interested in said property shall be fully heard, at which time the owners of said property or any person interested therein shall be entitled to a hearing as to the bene- fits enefits of said improvements to their property or as to any invalidity or irregularity with reference to said proceedings or as to any other matter of objection connected with the said izpxsx proceedings, and at which hearing said owners or any other person interested in said property may produce evidence in support of any objections. 2. That, after said hearing, said Council will, by ordinance, as - sees against the ownersof said property and their property, such sums as shall be determined to be just and equitable, and that said assessment will be made in accordance with the front,,plan`and rule, as the frontage to each owner is to the whole fronting to be improved, provided if the said rule or plan shall be determined in any case to be unjust or inequitable, then that the Council will adopt such rule of appartionment as shall be just and equitable, having in view the benefits to each owner and burdens imposed upon them, provided that no'assessment shall be made against any owner or his property in excess of the benefits to said property in the enhanced value thereof by reason of said improvement. r 3. That the totil masts esti-mated ^:.Zte_, of said improvem6nts is the sum of llars and that the amount per front foot, which it, is proposed to assess agains t each xxxar parcel of property and its owner is =zr Dollars. That the names of the persons, firms, corporations and estates owning property abutting said improvements, the description of their property and the total amount to be assessed against each parcel of property and its owner is as follows, to -Wit: - LIST OR PROPERTY ABUTTING SAID IMPROEMENTS. Owners Name. Block. XK RYNE77 /05 RA- WHzr-E- /D G /� A v /{ 13 ` k 5 /06 Lot. Front Ft. Costs. 157 00 ? ? /- v� �- 4 C 4. That the City Secretary of the City of. Lubbock is hereby directed to give notice hereof by publication of this Resolution, signed by him, which publication shall be by advertisement inserted three times in The Lubbock Avalanche, px'hiiakad a n,wspaer I published in said City of Lubbock, the first publication of which shall be at least ten days before the date of the aforesaid hearing, and such notice will be further given by the City Secretary mailing a copy of hereof, signed by him, by register— ed mail to each of said owners at their addresses, if known, or if unknown, then to their agent or attorney, if known, which said notice shall be de— posited in the Post Ofice of the City of Lubbock at least ten days before the date set Cor said hearing aforesaid. %. That this resolution shall take effect from and after its passage. On motion duly seconded the Council adjourned subject to the call of the Mayor.