HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 020978C - Provide For Paving Improvements - City Engineer - Various Streets - 02_09_1978RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR IMPROVEMENTS OF PORTIONS OF STREETS, HIGHWAYS,
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, highways,
avenues and/or alleys in the City of Lubbock and along the boundaries thereof,
be improved as herein provided, to -wit:
NAME
LaSalle Avenue (361)
LaSalle Avenue (36')
W. 1/2 Kewanee Avenue (36')
N. 1/2 81st Street (36')
S. 1/2 78th Street (42')
Utica Avenue (42')
Utica Avenue (42')
Utica Avenue (42')
Utica Avenue (42')
Utica Avenue (42')
STREETS
FROM
30th Street
32nd Street
30th Street
Boston Avenue
University Avenue
59th Street
60th Street
61st Street
62nd Street
63rd Street
II.
TO
31st Street
33rd Street
34th Street
University Avenue
Avenue "X"
60th Street
61st Street
62nd Street
63rd Street
64th Street
Said portions of streets, highways and avenues shall be improved by raising, 1
grading and filling same, by installing concrete curb and gutters, by installing t
storm sewers and drains where necessary, by installing a compacted caliche base, �h`
and by surfacing with four (4) course penetration type or 1-I/2" hot mix type
asphaltic surface treatment. Alleys shall be improved by installing a ten (10)
foot wide, 5" thick reinforced concrete strip in the center thereof.
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 and/or alleys 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.
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 will 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.
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
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of the alley to be improved shall be assessed for fifty (50) percent of the cost
of such improvements. Vacant property zoned for two (2) family residential purposes
shall be assessed for fifty (50) percent of the cost of such improvements. Propert
which has commercial or semi -commercial usage, and property used or 'vacant and
zoned for three (3) or more family residential usage, shall be assessed for ninety.
(90Z) of the cost of such improvements. Where there is commercial or semi -com-
mercial usage or zoning on one side of an alley, the 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 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.
(d) The remaining cost of said improvements after deducting the sums finally
assessed against railways and street railways under sub -paragraph (a) hereby, and
against abutting property and the owners thereof under sub -paragraph (b) and (c)
above, shall be paid by the City of Lubbock.
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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 twenty days after acceptance of the improve-
ments 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 installations. The first of which shall become
due on or before 20 days after completion and acceptance of the improvements in
the unit on which the property abutts by the City Council; the second, third, fourt
and fifth installments shall become due one, two, three, and four years respectivel
after completion and acceptance of.the improvements in the unit upon which the
property abutts, by the City Council and shall bear interest from the date of com-
pletion 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 assess
went upon which some is made.
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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 provisio
of Article 1105B Revised Civil Statues 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.
II This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 9TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1978.
Roy Bas , Mayor
-ATTEST:
Treva Phillips, City
,,,8'ecretary
APPROVED
AS TO FORM:
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