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AN ORDINANCE
DETERMINING THE NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING THE IMPROVE-
MENT OF:
1. AIRLINE ROAD FROM SOUTH PADRE ISLAND DRIVE TO A
POINT APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY (70') SOUTH OF WILLIAMS
DRIVE, AND WILLIAMS DRIVE APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED
FEET (200') EAST AND WEST OF THE AIRLINE ROAD INTER, .
SECTION; AND
2. LEOPARD STREET FROM PORT AVENUE TO A POINT APPROXIMATELY
THREE HUNDRED FEET (300') EASTERLY,
IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS;
REQUIRING THE DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL DEVELOP -
MENT TO PREPARE AND FILE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS, REQUIRING
THE CITY SECRETARY TO FILE A NOTICE IN THE OFFICE OF THE ,
COUNTY CLERK, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, AS TO THE ACTION HEREIN;
PROVIDING HOW SUCH IMPROVEMENT SHALL BE PAID; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, 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 shall be improved by the
raising, grading, filling, widening, paving, repaving, or repairing same,
�. by the construction, reconstruction, repairing or realigning concrete side-
walks, curbs, gutters and driveways where the Director of Engineering
and Physical Development determines adequate sidewalks, curbs, gutters and
driveways are not now installed on proper grade and line, and by construct -'
ing such storm sewers and drains, together with all other incidentals
and appurtenances, all as deemed adequate'by the Director of Engineering
and Physical Development and as provided for in the plans and specifications
for such improvements, said streets to be paved and curbs and gutters
installed as shown on the plans and specifications for such improvements
on file in the office of the City Engineer:
1. Airline Road from South Padre Island Drive to a point
approximately seventy feet (70') south of Williams
Drive and Williams Drive approximately two hundred feet
(2001) east and west of the Airline Road Intersection; and
2. Leopard Street from Port Avenue to a point approximately
three hundred feet (300') easterly.
SECTION 2. That the cost of said improvements shall be assessed
against adjoining property and paid for as follows, to -wit:
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A. Improvements - Street 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 are
needed. The paved surface shall be as determined by the State Highway
Department and approved by the City. Council.
B. Assessment Policy - Property ow nrs 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 calcu-
lating this rate, credit shall be given to the abutting owners
for 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 sidewalk
plus six and one -half percent (6 1/2 %) of construction
costs for engineering.
4. One hundred percent (160 %) 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 at 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 %.
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The assessement rate as calculated by the above procedure shall
not exceed three times the maximum rate established herein for residences,
schools and churches for curb and gutter and pavement.
In addition, on all properties other than single or two - family
residential, schools and churches, the sidewalk rate shall be a maximum
of $0.75 per square foot, but it shall be applied to the actual width of
sidewalk being constructed.
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 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 assess-
ment rate will not exceed $4.75 per front foot for curb and gutter and pave-
ment and $0.75 per square foot for sidewalk and 100% of driveway cost.
Property in this category which sides on a street being improved shall be
assessed not exceeding 50% of'the rate for curb, gutter, pavement and side-
walk but such rate shall be calculated based on a percentage of width divided
by the depth, in which event the rate could be less than 50% of the full rate
but the intent is that it will never exceed the 50% indicated above. 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 determina-
tion as to whether the property is siding will be dependent upon the actual
location of improvements on the property. Driveways shall be excluded from
this provision.
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 507 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.
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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 one hundred twenty (120) 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 one hundred twenty (120) in number so that, at the ownerys
-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.
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 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 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 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 improve-
menu 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 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 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 therto, 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
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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 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 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 jZL day of
197A6
ATTEST:
City Secretary MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
DAY OF
City Attorney
r
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
DAY OF
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; 1, 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,
(2_,� 1
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
JASON LUBY
OR. BILL TIPTON
EDUARDO DE ASES
RUTH GILL
BOB GULLEY
GABE LOZANO, SR.
EDWARD L. SAMPLE Ile
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
.JASON LUBY
OR. BILL TIPTON
EDUARDO OE ASES
RUTH GILL
BOB GULLEY
GAGE LOZANO, SR.
EDWARD L. SAMPLE
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N O T I C E
THE STATE OF TEXAS X
COUNTY OF NUECES X
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That the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, acting by and through
its duly elected and constituted City Council, on the '4Yh day of
August , 1976 , by Ordinance No 13311 determined the
necessity for and ordered the improvement of a portion of the following
street(s):
1. Airline Road from South Padre Island Drive to
a point approximately seventy feet (70') south
of Williams Drive and Williams Drive approxi-
mately two hundred feet (200') east and west of
the Airline Road intersection; and
2. Leopard Street from Port Avenue to a point
approximately three hundred feet (300') dasterly,
within the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, said street(s),
within the limits above described, to be improved by raising, grading,
filling, widening, paving, repaving or repairing same and by the con-
struction, reconstruction, repairing or realigning of concrete sidewalks,
curbs, gutters, and driveways where the Director of Engineering and
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 sewers and drains, if any, together with all
other necessary incidentals and appurtenances, all as deemed adequate by
the Director of Engineering and Physical Development and as provided
for in the plans and specifications for such improvements thereof as
prepared by said Director of Engineering and Physical Development.
That Ordinance No. 13311 , passed by the City Council on
the 4thday of August , 1976 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
acceptance 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,
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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 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.
Therefore, the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, has caused this
Notice to be filed by Bill G. Read , City Secretary, and
the official' seal of the City to be hereto affixed this the 4th day of
August 1976
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
-City 8ecietary
THE STATE OF TEXAS I
COUNTY OF NUECES X
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, on this day personally
appeared Bill r. R-1 _, 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 UNDER MY BAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this the 4th day
of August , 19 76. 1
STATE OF TEXAS Notary public in and for Nueces
COUNTY OF NUECES t Texas
Cep y,
,• .. �`,, ``�, ; ru 4 I hereby certify that this instrument was FILED on tha p
J '•., - V. ;•'i; date and at the time stamped hereon by me; and was duty CM \
•' c�': RECORDED, in the Volume and Page of the named RECORDS 2 - A
'' �•c U GF;�`•• of Nueces County, Texas, as stamped hereon by me, on tVyy m f
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