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Home My WebLink About09535 ORD - 10/29/1969x_-� AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A NEW POLICY OF STREET ASSESSMENTS APPLI- CABLE TO ALL STREET IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS HEREAFTER CONSTRUCTED IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, BY RE- PEALING SECTIONS 34 -21 AND 34 -22 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, AND THE ADOPTION OF A NEW SECTION, TO BE DESIGNATED SECTION 34 -21, IN LIEU OF SAID SECTIONS; PROVIDING A SEVERANCE CLAUSE; PRO- VIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECIARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Sections 34 -21 and 34 -22 of the Corpus Christi City Code, 1958, as amended, be and the same are hereby repealed in their entirety, and there is adopted in lieu of said Sections a new section, to be designated as Section 34 -21, reading as follows: "Section 34 -21. Policy on Street Assessments. The policy for street paving assessments in the City of Corpus Christi shall be as . A. Improvements - Streets shall contain a paved surface, plus two feet (2') of curb and gutter section on each side, a minimum of four -foot (4') wide sidewalk on each side, or wider where needed, plus driveways as needed. The paved surface shall be as determined by the Department of Public Works and may be either asphalt with flexible base or concrete as required and approved by the City Council. B. Assessment Policy - Property owners abutting on each side of the street shall be assessed on the front foot basis as follows: 1. Ninety percent (90 %) of cost of improvements relat- ing to pavement for one -half of the street abutting property. Such improvements shall include excavation, caliche base, shell base, lime stabilized base, asphalt oil, asphalt sur- face, or concrete, and include six and one -half percent (6 -1/2%) of construction costs for engineering. In calcu- lating this rate, credit shall be given to the abutting owners for an assumed 18 -foot wide section of pavement which will be an assumed 9 feet abutting each property, where pavement exists. 2. One hundred percent (100 %) of cost of construction of curbs and gutters, plus six and one -half percent (6 -1/2%) of construction costs for engineering. 9535 OF SIDEW3. EIGHTY ALK, RLUS SIXCAND ONE-HALF PERCENT (6-112%)TOOFNCON- STRUCTION COSTS FOR ENGINEERING. 4. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100 %) OF COST OF CONSTRUCTION OF DRIVEWAYS PLUS SIX AND ONE -HALF PERCENT (6 -1/2 %) OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS FOR ENGINEERING. THE ABOVE METHOD SHALL BE USED REGARDLESS OF DEPTH AND SHAPE OF LOT AND ANY PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS, SUBJECT, HOWEVER, TO A FINDING BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF INEQUALITY OR INJUSTICE AND CORRESPONDING ADJUSTMENT. CREDIT SHALL BE GIVEN FOR EXISTING CURBS, GUTTERS, SIDEWALKS AND DRIVEWAYS, IF THEY MEET THE STANDARDS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AT THE TIME OF CONSTRUCTION, AND FOR THE AMOUNT SHOWN TO HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY SPENT FOR PERMANENT TYPE PAVEMENT BY THE ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNER, IN EXCESS OF THE 9 -FOOT WIDE PAVEMENT CREDIT ABUTTING THE PROPERTY AS DESCRIBED ABOVE. PROPERTY WHICH SIDES ALONG THE STREET BEING IMPROVED SHALL BE ASSESSED THE RATE COMPUTED ABOVE INCLUDING DRIVEWAYS. PROPERTY BACKING ONTO A STREET BEING PAVED WILL BE ASSESSED THE SAME RATE ASABOVE EXCEPT IF ACCESS IS PROHIBITED, THEN THE RATE WILL BE REDUCED BY 50 %. WHERE IT BECOMES NECESSARY TO CONSTRUCT A HEADER CURB ALONG THE PROPERTY LINE OF COMMERCIALLY USED PROPERTIES TO PREVENT VEHICLES FROM PARKING, BACKING OR TURNING ON THE SIDEWALKS THE HEADER CURB WILL BE 100% ASSESSED, PLUS 6 -112% OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS FOR ENGINEERING AGAINST THE ABUTTING PROPERTY. WHERE THE CITY COUNCIL FINDS THAT PROPERTY IS PLATTED FOR AND COMMITTED IN WRITING TO ONE OR TWO - FAMILY RESIDENTIAL USE AND SO USED AT THE TIME OF ASSESSMENT, OR PLATTED WITHOUT IMPROVEMENTS BUT COMMITTED IN WRITING TO ONE OR TWO FAMILY RESIDENTIAL USE OR IN USE FOR CHURCH OR SCHOOL PURPOSES, THEN THE ASSESSMENT RATE WILL NOT EXCEED $4.75 FOR CURB AND GUTTER AND PAVEMENT AND 100% OF DRIVEWAY COST. PROPERTY IN THIS CATEGORY WHICH SIDES ON A STREET BEING IMPROVED SHALL BE ASSESSED NOT EXCEEDING 50% OF THE $4.75 RATE, AS WELL AS 50% OF SIDEWALK, AND 100% OF DRIVEWAYS. PROPERTY WHICH IS USED FOR SINGLE FA141LY PURPOSES AND BACKING ONTO THE STREET BEING IMPROVED WILL NOT BE ASSESSED FOR CURBS, GUTTERS OR PAVEMENT BUT WILL BE ASSESSED 50% OF SIDEWALK, INCLUDED IN THE STREET IMPROVEMENT WHERE NO SIDEWALK EXISTS IN FRONT OF PROPERTY, PROVIDED THAT WHERE THE -2- PROPERTY IS OVER 250 FEET DEEP, THEN THE RATE WILL BE THE SAME AS IF PROPERTY WERE FRONTING THE STREET. THE DETERMINATION OF THE ASSESSMENT RATE SHALL BE MADE BY APPLYING THE UNIT PRICES OBTAINED BY BIDS TO THE CALCULATED QUANTITIES AND FRONT FOOT MEASUREMENTS, FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS ABUTTING THE PROPERTY." SECTION 2. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTION, PARAGRAPH, SUBDIVI- SION, CLAUSE, PHRASE, OR PROVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE HELD INVALID, IT SHALL NOT AFFECT ANY VALID PROVISIONS OF THIS OR ANY OTHER ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO WHICH THESE RULES AND REGULA- TIONS RELATE. SECTION 3. PUBLICATION SHALL BE MADE ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CON- TAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE. SECTION 4. THE NECESSITY TO AMEND THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE AS HEREINABOVE SET FORTH AT THE EARLIEST PRACTICABLE DATE CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUS- PENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE, AND THAT THIS ORDI- NANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE AND PUBLICA- TION, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE.DAY OF�� 1969. ATTES CITi SECH TA MA O THE CITY OF CORPUS CHR13T1, TEXAS APPROVED: DAY OF -,1969: CITY ATTOiiNEY Corpus Christi, Texas 9;4Cday o £ &1 , 19 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen- sion of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi- nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, r Y R THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jack R. Blackmon Gabe Lozano, Sr. V. A. "Dick"Bradley, Jr. Eduardo E. de Ases Ken McDaniel W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts Ronnie Sizemore The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Jack R. Blackmon Gabe Lozano, Sr. V. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr. .� , Eduardo E. de Ases Ken McDaniel W. J. ','Wrangler" Roberts Ronnie Sizemore Y: