ORD CC 03/10/70 - PavingPAVING ORDINANCE
THE STATE OF TEXAS, X
COUNTY OF WALKER, X
CITY OF HUNTSVILLE. X
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS:
WHEREAS, the City of Huntsville, Texas, acting under and by
virtue of Title 28, Chapter 9, Revised Civil Statutes of the State
of Texas of 1925, and all amendments thereof, particularly Article
1105b thereof, and by ordinance approved February 10, 1970 has
determined that a necessity exits for and to make certain improve-
ments hereinafter mentioned in the City of Huntsville, Walker
County, Texas, as follows:
UNIT Al Normal Park Road from 22nd Street to Eastham
Lane to be paved 36 ft. in width with concrete
curb and gutter, 13/4" asphalt surface with 41/2"
asphalt base coarse. Same being a distance of
15,642.1 ft., that is, 7,858.1 ft. on the East
Side and 7,784.0 ft. on the West side.
UNIT B: Lake Road between Highway 75 South and the Feeder
Road of Interstate of Highway 45 to be paved 40
ft.asphalt surface with adequate base coarse
(asphaltic, crushed stone, or iron ore gravel,
depending on beat bid). Same being a distance
of 8,347.21 ft. that is, 4,175.5 ft. on the
East side and 4,171.82 ft. on the West side.
The pavement and improvement of said streets shall be done
in accordance with plans and specifications to be prepared by
N.B. Davidson, City Engineer, and approved by the Council,
the paving and improvements shall consist of raising, lowering
and grading of said streets, construction of storm drainage,
concrete ourbs and gutters, and paving Unit A with 11/2"
asphalt surface with 43/4" asphalt base coarse, and paving Unit B
with 11/2" asphalt surface with adequate base coarse (asphaltic,
crushed stone, or iron ore gravel, depending on best bid) . The
width of the pavement of said portbn of Unit A shall be 36 ft.,
and the width of the
pavement of said portion of Unit B shall be
40 ft. That not in excess of 3 /4ths of the costs of the paving
and improvements of said streets shall be paid by the abutting
property owners ontthe front foot rule of plan%
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the estimate of the cost of
such improvement, prepared by N.B. Davidson, City Engineer,
and now on file with the Secretary of the City of Huntsville,
Texas, heretofore prepared by him under the direction of the
City Council, be, and the same is hereby approved.
It is further ordained that a statement of the estimated
amount of the assessment to be made against the owner or owners of
claimants of abutting property against said property will be
filed in the Office of the City Secretary, and the interested
parties shall have the right to examine the same at all reasonable.
hours. That the estimated amount or amounts per front foot
proposed to be assessed the owner or owners or claimants of abut-
ting property shall not be in excess of $4.00 per front foot as
follows:
That the total estimated costs of the paving and improvements
of the said Unit A to be improved is $168.720.00 and the estimated
costs to the property owners is $62,568.40.
That the total esimated costs of the paving and improvements
of the said Unit B to be improved is $86,613.75 and the estimated
costs to the property owners is $33,389.28.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that a hearing shall be heard by and
before the City Council in the City Hall of the City of Huntsv-
ville, Texas, on the 14th day of April, 1970, at 7:30 o'clock
P.M., as provided by law, at which time and place all persons
interested in the paving and improvements, including the owner
or owners of the property abutting said street or interest therein,
of all persons owning, claiming and interested in said project
may appear and be heard with reference to all matters pertaining
to the pavement and improvements of said street, which hearing
shall be continued from day to day until finally accomplished.
No assessment shall be made against any abutting property,
and its owner or owners thereof in excess of the special bene-
fits to such property, and its owners, in the enhanced value
thereof by means of such improvements as determined at such
hearing.
The City Secretary is hereby directed to give notice of
said hearing be publishing a true copy of this ordinance in
the Huntsville Item three (3) times, the first publishing to
be at least 21 days before the day of hearing; and in addition
written notice of the hearing shall be given by depositing
in the United States Mail at least 14 days before the date of
the hearing, written notice of such hearing, postage prepaid,
in an envelope addressed to the owners or the respective proper
ties abutting such street, as the names of such owners are
shown on the then current rendered tax rolls of such city and
at the addresses so shown, or if the names of such respectivef
owners do not appear on such rendered tax roles, then addressed
to such owners as their names are shown on the current un-
rendered rolls of the City at the addresses shown thereon.
All former ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
Upon motion duly made and seconded the above and foregoing
ordinance was duly adopted by the unanimous vote of the City
Council of the City of Huntsville, at its regular meeting held
on the 10th day of March, 1970.
APPROVED THIS 70 day of March, 1970.
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ATTEST: W. BEN BLALOCK, JR,. YOR
CITY SECRETARY