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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11630 ORD - 08/15/1973. JRR:vp:8- 14- 74:let AN ORDINANCE DETERMINING THE NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FOLLOWING STREETS IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECESS COUNTY, TEXAS: 17TH STREET FROM ELIZABETH STREET TO STATE HIGHWAY #286; PRESCOTT STREET FROM 17TH STREET TO 18TH STREET; AND ELIZABETH STREET FROM 17TH STREET TO 18TH STREET; REQUIRING THE DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT TO PREPARE AND FILE PLANS AND SPECIFICA- TIONS; REQUIRING THE CITY SECRETARY TO FILE NOTICE IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, AS TO THE ACTION HEREIN; PROVIDING HOW SUCH IMPROVEMENTS SHALL BE PAID; AND DECLARING AN EMER- GENCY. «FOG, the City of Corpus Christi deems it necessary to permanently improve the hereinafter named streets within the City of Corpus Christi: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That the following streets shell be improved by the raising, grading, filling, widening, paving, repaving or repairing same, by the construction, reconstruction, repairing or realigning concrete sidewalks, curbs, gutters and driveways where the Director of Engineering & Physical Development determines adequate sidewalks, curbs, gutters, and driveways are not now installed on proper grade and line, and by constructing such storm sewers and drains, together with all other incidentals and appurtenances, all as deemed adequate by the Director of Engineering & Physical Development and as provided for in the plane and specifications for such improvements to be prepared by said Director of Engineering & Physical Development, said streets to be paved and curbs and gutters installed as shown on the plans and specifi- cations for such improvements on file in the office of the Director of Engineering & Physical Development: 17th Street from Elizabeth Street to State Highway #286; Prescott Street from 17th Street to 18th Street; and Elizabeth Street from 17th Street to 18th Street. SECTION 2. That the cost of said improvements shall be assessed against adjoining property and paid for as follows, to -wit: A. Improvements - Street shell contain a paved surface, plus two feet (2') of curb and gutter section on each side, a minimum of four -foot (41) wide sidewalk on each side, or wider where needed, plus driveways as needed. The paved surface shall be as determined by the Department of Engineering Services 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 relating 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 surface, or concrete, and include six and one -half percent (6 1/2 %) of construction costs for engineering. In calculating this rate, credit shell 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. 3. Eighty percent (80 %) of cost of construction of side- walk, plus six and one -half percent (6 1/2 %) of construction 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. 5. Where churches abut on two streets and double frontages are indicated, then the assessment rate for the church shall be reduced to 50% of the residential rate on the street which the improvements physically side; the determination as to whether the property is siding will be dependent upon the actual location of improvements on the property. 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 -2- 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 as above 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 sidewalk, the header curb will be 100% assessed, plus 6 -1/2% 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 - family 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 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. The cost assessed against said owners and their property, respectively, shall be payable in monthly installments not to exceed -3- sixty (60) in number, the first of which shall be payable within thirty (30) days from the date of completion of said improvements and their acceptance by the City of Corpus Christi, and one installment each month thereafter until paid, together with interest thereon at the rate of five and one quarter (5 1/4 %) percent, with the provision that any of said installments may be paid at any time before maturity by the payment of the principal and accrued interest thereon. The total number of monthly installments on owner occupied property may be extended beyond sixty (60) in number so that, at the owner's request, the total monthly payments will not exceed ten ($10.00) dollars per month. Any property owner against whom and against whose property an assessment has been levied may pay the whole assessment chargeable to him without interest within thirty (30) days after the acceptance and completion of said improvements. Provided, that if the application of the above - mentioned rule of apportionment between property owners would, in the opinion of the City Council, in particular cases be unjust or unequal, it shall be the duty of the said Council to assess and apportion said cost in such manner as it may deem just and equitable, having in view the special benefits in enhanced value to be received by each owner of such property, the equities of owners, and the adjust- ment of such apportionment, so as to produce a substantial equality of benefits received by and burdens imposed upon such owners. That no such assessments shall be made against any owner of abut- ting property, or of a street railway or steam railway, if any, until after the notice and hearing provided by law, and no assessment shall be made against an owner of abutting property in excess of the benefits to such property in enhanced value thereof by means of such improvements. For that part of the cost of the improvements that shall be determined to be levied against the owners of abutting property and their property shall be levied by assessment as herein provided, and said improvements may further be secured by Mechanic's Liens to be executed in favor of the City of Corpus Christi, provided by law in accordance with the terms and provisions of this ordinance. Paving certificates evidencing the assessment shell be issued in favor of the City of Corpus Christi for the amount of the assessment, whether the property owners have executed Mechanic's Liens to secure the payment or not, and shall be payable for the purpose of financing paving improvement costs. -4- That the Director of Engineering & Physical Development is hereby directed to prepare at once specifications and file the same with the City Council for the hereinabove described improvements. That in the specifications prepared, provision shall be made to require all contractors to maintain for a term not less than one (1) year all pavements and improvements hereinabove described, if, in the judgment of the City Council, it is deemed advisable to require same. That such specifications shall require the bidder to make a bid upon the type of improvements above described, with maintenance requirements as herein provided. That the specifications shell also state the amount of the performance bond and payment bond, each of which shall equal the amount of the bid, as well as the method by which it is proposed to pay the cost of said improvements, said method being in accordance with this ordinance. SECTION 3. The City Council, in initiating this proceeding, is acting under the terms and provisions of the Act passed at the First Called Session of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Texas, and known as Chapter 106 of the Acts of said Session, together with any amend- ments thereto, now shown as Article 1105b of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, which said law, as an alternative method for the construction of street improvements in the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, has been adopted by the said City. SECTION 4. That after approval by the City Council of plans and specifications, bids shall be taken for the construction of the work for the type of construction enumerated above and set forth in said plans and specifications, and the work shall be done, with the materials and according to plans and methods selected by the City Council, after the bids are opened and contract awarded. SECTION 5. That it is further provided as is stipulated by the provisions of the Charter of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and the laws above identified, that said improvements may be omitted in front of any property exempt from the lien of special assessment for street improve- ments without invalidating or affecting the assessments against the other property abutting upon said street. Further, the City Secretary of the -5- City of Corpus Christi, Texas, is hereby authorized and directed to prepare a notice in the name of said City of action taken herein and to have same filed by the County Clerk of Nueces County, Texas, among the Mortgage Records of said County. SECTION 6. That the need for preparation of plans and proceeding with improvements as herein provided as promptly as possible 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, having requested the suspension of said Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and that such ordinance take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the �� '' day of August , 1973 ATTEST: Cit ecret 7 APPROVED: AUGUST 1973 "ttDAY �_ . MAYO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEAS Corpus Christi, Texas r • day of , 19 % 3 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 Chatter 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, MAY THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jason Luby James T. Acuff ,,^(� `j Lac Rev. Harold T. Branch Thomas V. Gonzales Ricardo Gonzalez Gabe Lozano, Sr. C J. Howard Stark 1/ The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Jason Luby e James T. Acuff i ll Rev. Harold T. Branch y Thomas V. Gonzales �/ Ricardo Gonzalez ALI Gabe Lozano, Sr. J. Howard Stark i. JRR:vp:8- 15 -73' RUM IRAQ 684 9223 ®2 N 0 T I C E THE STATE OF TEXAS ) } KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: COUNTY OF NOECES ) That the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, acting by and through its duly elected and constituted City Council, on the 15th day of August, 1973, by Ordinance No ll630 %determined the necessity for and ordered the Improvement of a portion of the following streets: 17th Street from Elizabeth Street to State Highway #286; Prescott Street from 17th Street to 18th Street; and Elizabeth Street from 17th Street to 18th Street within the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, said street, with- in the limits above described, to be improved by raising, grading, filling, widening, paving, repaving or repairing same and by the construction, recon- struction, repairing or realigning of concrete sidewalks, curbs, gutters, and driveways where the Director of Engineering & Physical Development determines adequate sidewalks, curbs, gutters and driveways are not now installed on proper grade and line, and by the construction of such storm severe and d drains, if any, together with all other necessary incidentals and appurtenances, ell as deemed adequate by the Director of Engineering & Physical Development and as provided for in the plans and specifications for such improvements thereof as prepared by said Director of Engineering & Physical Development. That Ordinance No. 11630 passed by the City Council on the 15th day of August, 1973, provided that the amounts payable by the real and true owners of said abutting property s11e11 be paid and become payable in one of the following methods at the option of the property owner: 1. All in cash within twenty (20) days after completion and acceptance by the City; or, 2. The cost assessed against said owners and their property, shall be payable in monthly inate]lments not to exceed sixty (60) in number the first of which shell be payable within thirty (30) days from the date of com- pletion of said improvements and their acceptance by the City of Corpus Christi, and one installment each month thereafter until paid, together with interest DEED RECORDS VOL 1471 MUM h 1•, DEED RECORDS 10 VOL :141:1 VAGE1014 ULM MCI 685 thereon at the rate of five and one quarter (5 1 /4 %) percent, with the pro- vision that any of said installments may be paid at any time before maturity by the payment of the principal and accrued interest thereon. The total number of monthly installments on owner occupied property may be extended beyond sixty (60) in number so that, at the owner's request, the total monthly pay- ments will not exceed ten ($10.00) dollars per month. Any property owner against whom and against whose property an assessment has been levied may pay the whole assessment chargeable to him without interest within thirty (30) days after the acceptance and completion of said improvements; and said ordi- nance further provided that the amounts payable by the abutting property, and the real and true owners thereof, to be assessed against said property and said true owners thereof shall constitute a first and prior lien on such abutting property and a personal liability of the real and true owners thereof. Therefore, the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, has caused this Notice to be filed by T. Ray Sring, City Secretary, and the official seal of the City to be hereto affixed this the 15th day of August, 1973. CITY OF go" By !Z' 2 T. Ray in , ity 8 cretat THE STATE OF TEAS ) (� COUNTY OF NUECES ) BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared T. RAY %RING, City Secretary of the City of Corpus Christi, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he signed the same in his capacity as City Secretary-for the purposes and consideration therein expressed, and as the act and deed of said City of Corpus Christi, Texas. GIVEN MMER Dff HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this the 15th day of August, 1973; Ivs c'. Notary Public in and for Nueces County, Texas STATE OF TEXAS COUNT! OF NUECES 1 hereby certify that this instrument was FILED on the date and at the time stamped hereon by me; and was duly RECORDED. In the Volume end Page of [He named RECORDS r Nueces County. Texas, as stamped hereon by me, on � Y� AUG 16 1973 A+ d � roe „,s+s COUNTY CLERK, v Q t � anY NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS Uj g y LL_ ®4 I U 4_1!a � V