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Home My WebLink AboutORD 315 - ORD Determining the Necessity and Ordering That WU To Prepare and File Specification on Improvements [i CL--' ';.... ! [~I 15~ t2R1iHl\TL\ 1\T(ni~ l\T() 315 AN ORDINANCE DETE~lINING THE NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING THAT UNIVERSITY BOUI ~VAR~ FR01E KIRBY DRIVE TO COMMUNITY DRIVE, WESLAYAH STREET FROM BELLAlRE BOULEVARD TO RICmmND ROAD, RICE BOULZVARD FROM KIRBY DRIVE TO BELMONT A1TD AUDEN STREET FROM UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD TO RICE B01JLEVARD SHAIJ.. BE ThI- PROVED BY PAVING SAID PORTIONS OF SAID STREETS; REQUIRING THE GARRETT ENGINEERING CO]\PAJ\TY, ENGII'ilEERS FOR THE CITY, TO PREPARE AND FILE cOMPLETE SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE PROPOSED Th'IPROVEMENT TOGETHER WITH A WRITTEN STATEMENT OF THE NAJVIES OF THE OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY ABUTTING ON SAID STREET WITHIN THE LIMITS NAMED; DIRECTING THE GARRETT ENGI:NEERING CO:MPANY, ENGINEERS FOR THE CITY, TO PREPARE AN ESTThIATE OF THE COST OF SUCH ThIPROVEMENTS, AND DECLARING AN E1JIERGENCY. vVEEREAS, the City Commission of the City of West University Place, Texas has decided to initiate the improvement of the follow- ing streets; namely, University Boulevard from Kirby Drive to Cowaunity Drive Weslayan Street from Bellaire Boulevard to Richmond Road Rice Boulevard from Kirby Drive to Belmont Street Auden Street from University Boulevard to Rice Boulevard , Not, therefore, BE IT ORDAI1'ED BY TEE CITY CONIMISSION OF THE CITY OF WEST UNIVER- SITY PLACE, TEXAS: . Section l. That the City Commission of the City of West University Place, Texas, does hereby determine that it is necessary' to improve the following streets: University Boulevard from Kirby Drive to Community Drive Weslayah street from Bellaire Boulevard to Richmond Road Rice Boulevard from Kirby Drive to Belmont Street Auden street from University Boulevard to Rice Boulevard and does hereby order that said streets within said limits shall be improved in the manner and with such kinds of pavement and material or 'materials as may be adopted by the City Commission to be used in ~he construction of said improvement; that the width of the roadway to be improved between curb lines is hereby fixed as follows: University Boulevard from Kirby Drive to Edloe- - - Forty ( 40 ) University BouJ.,evard from Edloe to Auden - - - - - Fifty Two (,52) U~iversity Boulevard from Auden to Community Drive- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Thirty Weslayan Street from Bellaire Boulevard to Richmond Road- - -- - - - - - - - -Thirty Rice Boulevard from Kirby Drive to B~lmont Thirty Auden Street from University Boulevard to Rice Boulevard- - - - : - - - _ Forty Feet Feet Six(36) Six( 36) Six(36} Feet Feet Feet (40) Feet I I] "!L, ,1I JII \I J L j , ' ..1 .""..1 L60 that monolithic concrete curbs shall be constructed on each side of said roadway where adequate and sufficient curbs are not now [] installed along curb lines so fixed; that said roadway shall be improved from curb to curb by providing thereon concrete pavement having a nominal thickness of 7 inches with such increased thick- ness at construction joints as may be deemed adequate by the En- gineer, either by construction, reconstruction or repair, as may be found necessary and proper; that the maximUm cost at which the work of constructing said improvement shall be let shall not exceed $4.,50 per square yard, including excavation, grading and concrete pavement of those portions of said streets to be paved, and not exceeding $1.00 per lineal foot of property improved for concrete curbs, all in th~ manner as provided by Acts 1927, 40th Legislature of the State of Texas, First Called Session, page 489, Chapter 106, said Act being commonly known Article 110,5-b, Revised Civil Statutes of the state of Texas, 1925, and relating to street improvements and assessments therefor, and as provided by Article, XXII of the Charter of the City of West University Place. ' Section 2, That the cost of said improvements shall be paid as follows: (A) Since there are no rails, tracks, double tracks, turnouts and switches of any railway, street railway or interurban using, oc- cupying or crossing any of said streets within the limits hereby ordered improved, therefore no part of the cost of said improvements can be assessed against any railway, street railway or interurban :i,' I line · U (B) The' owners of the property abutting on said Streets within the limrts above set out, shall pay all of the cost of con- struction, reconstruction, repairing and realigning curbs and gut- ters, and shall pay the cost of paving l..5 square yards (13'..5 square feet) for ea~h lineal foot of abutting property, but not to exceed nine-tenths (9-l0ths) of the cost of the remaining improvements on said Streets within the limits prescribed, exclusive of that portion of said cost referred to in sub-section (c) of this section, and said abutting property owners shall have assessed against them and their property said costs for such ~provements in the manner pro- vided by Acts of the 40th Legislature of the State of Texas, 1927,' First called session, relating to street improvements and assessments therefor, and being Chapter 106 of the General and Special Laws of said session, said Act being commonly known as Article 1105-b, Re-, vised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, 192.5, and as provided bv Artj cl~ XXII of the Charter of the Citv of VV'e~t Universitv Plac~. -.. I. That said amounts payable by the property owners shall be paid in five (.5) equal installments, one instalLment thirty days after the completion of said improvements and the acceptance thereof by the City of West University Place, one installment in one year from the date of such acceptance; one installment in two years from said date of ac- ceptance; one installment in three years from said date of acceptance" and one installment in four years from said date of acceptance; with ' interest thereof from said date of acceptance at the rate of 1010 per annum, payable annually; but said property owners shall have the privi- lege of paying any of said installments before their maturity by pay~ IJ [ r 161 ment of principal and interest thereon; providing, however, that no amount shall be assessed against any property owner or his property, 'in excess of the benefits to said property in the enhanced value thereof by reason of said improvement. (C) The City of 't'Yest University Pla'ce shall pay the whole cost of improving the intersections of said Streets with other streets and , alleys (exclusive of the cost of curbs), and shall pay all of the re- maining cost of said improvements, and in no event less than one-tenth (l/lOth) of the remaining cost o~ said improvements. Section 3. The Garrett Engineering Company is hereby directed to prepare forthWith and file with the City Commission complete speci- fications for the proposed improvement, upon each of the various kinds of paving materials hereinabove set forth, so as to enable bids to be secured separately upon each of said kinds of pavements; and said specifications to be so arranged as that the City shall be enabled to obtain bids for doing any portions of said work separately from the other portions, if desired by the City Commission, together with a written statement Which shall contain the names of persons, firms, corporations and estates owning property abutting upon said streets within the limits named, with the number .of front feet owned by each, describing such property either by lot or block numb~r, or any other nammer sufficient to identify it; and the Garrett Engineering Company is further directed to prepare an estimate of the cost of such im- prov eme nt s . Section 4. The fact that the above streets between the inter- sections mentioned are in bad condition and the same should be im- proved immediately, creates a public emergency requiring that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction, and the Mayor haVing declared the existence of' SQch emergency and requested such passage, this ordinance shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction, this 27 day of May,A. D. 1946, and shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Mayor. Passed this 27 day of May A. D. 1946. Approved this 27 day of May, A. D. 1946. -~ - ATTEST: ,: City Secretary I i I I I -- ,L! ,',1. L. ',I', L]