HomeMy WebLinkAbout14786 ORD - 02/28/1979AN ORDINANCE
DETERMINING THE NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING THE IMPROVE-
MENT OF THE FOLLOWING STREETS, BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF
SIDEWALKS AS FOLLOWS:
Casa De Manana'Area
1. Old Brownsville Road, North Side, from Casa de
Manana, Unit 1 to Cliff Maus Drive
2. Bear Lane, North Side, from Old Brownsville
Road to Navigation Boulevard.
IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS;
REQUIRING THE DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL
DEVELOPMENT TO PREPARE AND FILE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS;
REQUIRING THE CITY SECRETARY TO FILE A NOTICE IN THE
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS,
AS TO THE ACTION HEREIN; PROVIDING HOW SUCH IMPROVE.KENT
SHALL BE PAID; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, has
determined the necessity for, and has decided to improve the hereinafter
named streets by the construction of sidewalks, within the City of Corpus
Christi, in the manner herein provided:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY ENE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CBRISTI,TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That there exists a public necessity for, and the City
Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, hereby does determine that it
is necessary to improve the following streets within the City of Corpus Christi,
in the manner herein provided, to -wit:
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Casa De Manana Ar
1. Old Brownsville Road, North Side, from Casa de
Manana, Unit 1 to Cliff Maus Drive
2. Bear Lane, North Side, from Old Brownsville
Road to Navigation Boulevard.
SECTION 2. That it is hereby ordered that said streets, within the
limits above described, shall be improved by the construction, reconstruction,
repairing or realigning of concrete sidewalks where the Director of Engineering
and Physical Development determines adequate sidewalks are not now installed
on proper grade and line, and as provided for in the plans and specifications
for such improvements to be prepared by said Director of Engineering and
Physical Development.
All of said improvements are as more particularly shown on the plans
and specifications for such improvements, on file in the office of the Director
of Engineering and Physical Development.
SECTION 3. In providing for and making such improvements, the
City Council hereby determined to proceed under, and in the exercise of the
powers, terms and provisions of the Charter of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, as set out in Article 1105b, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925,
as amended.
SECTION 4. The Director of Engineering and Physical Development
for the City of Corpus Christi is hereby directed to prepare forthwith and
file with the City Council complete plans and specifications for such
proposed sidewalk improvements.
SECTION 5. The cost of said improvements shall be paid as follows,
to -wit:
(a) Improvements - Sidewalk shall be a minimum of four feet
(4') wide, or wider where needed. The paved surface shall
be determined by the Department of Engineering and Physical
Development and approved by the City Council.
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(b) Assessment Policy - Property owners abutting said improvements
shall be assessed as follows:
1. Eighty
9 y percent (80%) of the cost of construction of side-
walk, plus six and one-half (6 1/2) percent 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.
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 schoolpurposes,
then the assessment rate will not exceed $4.75 for curb and gutter and pavement
and 1001 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 shall be
payable in monthly installments not to exceed 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 1/47.) 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 improve-
ments.
That no such assessments shall be made against any owner of
. abutting -property, or of a street railway or steam railway, if any, until
after the notice andbearingprovided 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 tetras and provisions of this ordinance. Paving certificates
evidencing the assessment shall 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 pay_
able for the purpose of financing paving improvement costs.
That the Director of Engineering and Physical Development is
hereby directed to prepare at once specifications and file the same with
the City Council for the hereinabove described . im rovementsThat
p 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 improve-
ments 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.
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That the specifications shall 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 6. 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 therto, now shown as Article 1105b of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes,
mbleh 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 7. 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 8. 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
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 9. 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 suspen-
sion of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed
finally on the date of its introduction and that such ordinance -or -resolu-
tion 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 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 .Z f day of
ATTEST:
Ci y
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10 THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Carpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance,
a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspension 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 ordinance
finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City
Council.
Respectfully,
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THE CI
OF
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The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Bob Gulley
David Diaz
Ruth Gill
Joe Holt
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
The above ordinance was passed
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Bob Gulley
David Diaz
Ruth Gill
Joe Holt •
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
by the following vote:
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THE STATE OF TEXAS d
COUNTY OF NUECES
128417
NOTICE
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, acting by and through its
duly elected and constituted City Council, on the 28th day of February, 1979,
by Ordinance No. 14786 determined the necessity for and ordered the improve-
ment of a portion of the following streets:
1. Old Brownsville Road, North side, from Casa de Manana,
Unit 1 to Cliff Maus Drive, and
2. Bear Lane, North side, from Old Brownsville Road to
Navigation Boulevard,
within the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, said streets within
the limits above described, to be improved by the construction, reconstruction,
repairing or realigning of concrete sidewalks, where the Director of Engineering
and Physical Development determines adequate sidewalks are not now installed
on proper grade and line, and as provided for in the plans and specifications
for such improvements thereof as prepared by said Director of Engineering
and Physical Development.
Said ordinance further provides that a portion of the cost of said
improvements is to be specially assessed as a lien upon the property abutting
said streets and as a personal liability against the owners of such abutting
property, such assessments to be payable to the City of Corpus Christi.
That Ordinance No. 14786 passed by the City Council on the 28th day
of February, 1979, provided that the amounts payable by the real and true
owners of said abutting property shall be paid and become payable in one of
the following methods at the option of the property owner:
1. All in cash within thirty (30) days after completion and accept-
ance by the City; or,
2. Payment in monthly installments not to exceed sixty (60) in
number, the first of which shall be payable within thirty (30) days from the
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
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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 Dollars ($10.00) 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 ordinance 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.
,' "\))NTherefore, the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, has caused this Notice
0 o o°°bV'Pflg0y;Bill G. Read, City Secretary, and the official seal of the City
to bei, Tereta mixed this the Iij. l,day of March, 1979.
' CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
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City Secretary
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF NUECES
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared
BILL G. READ, 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 pur-
poses and consideration therein expressed, and as the act and deed of said City
of Corpus Christi, Texas.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL of office this the/OW-day of March,
Nota1^y Public in an
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I hereby certify that this Instrument was FILED myr [[`` 7n
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