HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 111474F - Street Improvements - City Engineer - Multiple Locations - 11_14_1974RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR IMPROVEMENTS OF PORTIONS OF STREETS, HIGH-
WAYS, AVENUES AND/OR ALLEYS IN THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, AND ALONG THE
BOUNDARY OF SAID CITY AND DIRECTING PREPARATION OF PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, THAT:
I.
Public necessity exists that the following portions of streets, high-
ways, avenues and/or alley in the City of Lubbock and along the boundaries
thereof, be improved as herein provided, to -wit:
Alleys
10' Wide Alleys From To
Bet. 34th & 35th Streets Avenue.N Avenue M.
Bet. 40th & 41st Streets Indiana Avenue Hartford Avenue
II.
Said portions of streets, highways and avenues shall be improved by
raising, grading and filling same, by installing concrete curb and gutters,
by installing storm sewers and drains where necessary, by installing a com-
pacted caliche base, and by surfacing with four (4) course penetration type
or 1 3/4" hot mix type asphaltic surface treatment. Alleys shall be 'improved
by installing a ten (10) foot wide, 5" thick teinforced concrete strip in the
center thereof.
The City Engineer is hereby directed to prepare plans and specificati
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 and/or alleys to be improved shall
be assessed for and shall pay for all of the cost of the work in the area be-
tween their rails and tracks, double tracks, turnouts and switches and two
feet on each side thereof.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS
(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 cost 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 shal';1 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, &^Tess
amount not to exceed the benefits.
ALLEY IMPROVEMENTS
(c) The abutting property and owners thereof shall pay and shall be assessed
for a part of the remaining cost of such improvements, after deducting the sums
to be paid by the railways under sub -paragraph (a) above, in the following
manner: All property which has single family or two (2) family residential
usage on both sides of the alley to be improved shall be assessed for fifty
(507.) of the cost of such improvements. Vacant property zoned for two (2)
family residential purposes shall be assessed for fifty (50%) of the cost of
such improvements. Property which has commercial or semi -commercial usage, and
property used or vacant and zoned for three (3) or more family residential usag
shall be assessed for ninety (90%) of the cost of such improvements. Where
there is commercial or semi -commercial usage or zoning on one side of an alley,
and single family residential usage and zoning on the other side, property used
as a single family residence will not be assessed. Said abutting property and
owners thereof shall pay and be assessed for the cost of constructing alley
paving improvements as specified above, provided, that if it shall appear at
the hearing to be had before final assessment is made, that the special benefit
to such property by way of enhancement value thereof by means of such improve-
ments 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. (d) The remaining cost of
said improvements after deducting the sums finally assessed against railways
and streetr:railways under sub -paragraph (a) hereof, and against abutting proper
ty and the owners thereof under sub -paragraphs (b) and (c) above, shall be paid
by the City of Lubbock.
V.
The amounts assessed against and to be paid by railways and street rail-
ways for work between rails and tracks and 2 feet on each side thereof shall be
paid on estimates or statements on or before twenty days after acceptance of
the improvements in the unit in which the railway lies, by the City Council
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 five (5) equal installments. The
first of which shall become due on or before 20 days after completion and ac-
ceptance of the improvements in the unit on which the property abuts by the
City Council; -the second, third, fourth and fifth installments shall become due
one, two, three, and four years respectively after completion and acceptance of
the improvements in the unit upon which the property abuts, by the City Council
and shall bear interest from the date of completion and acceptance until paid,
at the rate of six percent per annum on street improvements, and seven percent
per annum on alley improvements, payable annually, with provisions that if
default be made in the payment of any installment promptly as 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.
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VI.
Assessments shall be made and levied, and shall be a first and prior
lien and personall:,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 accor-
dance with the provisions of Article 1105B Revised Civil Statutes of Texas as
amended by Chapter 281 Acts of the 52nd Legislature, and most recent amended
by Chapter 176 Acts of the 60th Legislature.
VII.
This Resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
_uPASSED-AND APPROVED THIS 14TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1974.
ROY BASS, MAYOR
ATTEST:
Treva Phillips, Ci Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Fred 0. Senter, Jr., Ci A ttorney
Wil
. Watson, City Engineer