HomeMy WebLinkAbout1961-0318 - Ordinance - 06/23/1961ORDINANCE NO. 318
ORDINANCE DETERMINING TO ASSESS A PART OF THE COST OF IMPROVING PORTIONS OF
SECOND STREET, TAUBER STREET, STASNEY STREET, CROSS STREET AND CHERRY STREET IN
THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, AGAINST ABUTTING PROPERTY AND THE OWNERS
THEREOF, ADOPTING ENGINEER`'S' ROLLS, PROVIDING FOR NOTICE OF HEARING AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
Whereas, the City Council of the City of College Station, Texas, has hereto-
fore ordered that the following portions of streets in said city be improved by
raising, grading and filling the same, paving and installing drains, inlets and
storm sewers where provided in the plans, with necessary incidentals and appurten-
ances and in accordance with the plans now on file with the City and in accor-
dance with the specifications therefor, said portions of said streets being as
follows, towit:
All that certain portion of Second Street described as follows: Commenc-
ing at the intersection of Church Avenue and Second Street, thence in a North-
westerly direction along Second Street until same intersects Cherry Street;
All that certain portion of Tauber Street from its intersection of Church
Avenue, thence in a Northwesterly direction along. Tauber Street Until -same, ' -
intersects Cherry Street;
All that certain portion of Stasney Street from its intersection of F. M.
60, thence in a Northwesterly direction along Stasney Street until same inter-
sects Cherry Street;
All that certain portion of Cross Street from its intersection of Tauber
Street, thence in a Northeasterly direction along Cross Street until same inter-
sects Nagle Street;
All that certain portion of Cherry Street from its intersection of Tauber
Street, thence in a Northeasterly direction along Cherry Street until same inter-
sects Nagle Street.
The improvements to Second Street, Tauber Street, Stasney Street, Cross
Street and Cherry Street shall consist of six (6) inch compact depth gravel
base with one (1) inch plant mix surfacing.
WHEREAS the City of College Station has entered into a contract with
Jack M. Barker Construction Co., Lufkin, Texas,
for the improvements of said Second Street, Tauber Street, Stasney Street, Cross
Street and Cherry Street, and the City Engineer has prepared and filed rolls
or statements concerning the improvements and assessments therefor; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined to assess a portion of the cost
of such improvements against the owners of the property abutting thereon and
against such property; and
WHEREAS, the present condition of such streets and places endangers the
public health and safety and it is necessary that the improvements thereof be
proceeded with while the weather permits, and such improvements arebeing delayed
pending the passing and taking effect of this ordinance and the other proceedings
incidental thereto, and such facts constitute and create an emergency;
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THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THAT:
I
The City of College Station does hereby determine to assess a portion of
the cost of said improvements on said portions of streets against abutting property
thereon and against the owners of such property and said assessments to be levied
in exercise of the power granted in Article II, Section XI of the Charter of
said city, and as provided by Acts of 1927, 40th Legislature of the State of Texas,
First Called Session, Chapter 106, page 489, as amended, commonly known as Article
1105-B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas.
II
Said rolls or statements be and the same are hereby adopted and approved.
III
The several amounts proposed to be assessed against such parcels of property
and the owners thereof, the other matters and things as shown on said rolls or
statements being as follows, towit:
Name of Owner
R. E. Dansby, Jr.
W. E. Higgins
Mrs. W. O. Reed
Frank H. Mathews
James E. McGarrah
H. M. Pitner
Mrs. T. G. Gorbet
Vince Court
Our Saviour's Lutheran
Church
James E. McGarrah
A & M Presbyterian Churc
Tom Taylor
Vince Court
Carr M. Denman, Sr.
Our Saviour's Lutheran
Church
A & M Church of Christ
B. C. Jones
Edward R. Ibert
W. C. Scasta & Son
Rev. R. L. Brown
Description
Lots 14, 15
Blk 6 & 7 Boyett
Lots 16, 17
Blk 6&7
Lot 18 Blk 6 & 7
Lot 19 Blk 6 & 7
Lot 20 Blk 6 & 7
Lots 1, 2
Blk 5
Lot 3 Blk 5 "
Lots 4, 5 Blk 5
Lots 11, 12, 13
Blk 5
Lot 14 Blk 5
h Lots 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, Acreage
Blk 6&7 "
Lots 5, 6 Blk 20
Lot 7 Blk 20
Lot 8 Blk 20
Lots 9, 10, 11, 12,
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Amount
$ 86.25
$ 75.00
$ 37.50
$ 37.50
$ 37.50
$ 75.00
$ 37.50
$ 75.00
$112.50
$ 37.50
$441.75
$ 75.00
$ 37.50
$ 37.50
$187.50
$ 75.00
$ 37.50
$ 82.50
$ 37.50
$ 75.00
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R. L. Jackson
H. R. Covington, Estate
First Baptist Church
William Frank Tauber, Jr
Mrs. Lottie Petrasek
John J. Tauber
Mrs. Zofie M. Nowlin
John J. Tauber
Mrs. Lottie Petrasek
Mrs. Zofie M.Nowlin
John J. Tauber
Richard N. Cade
Mrs. Elsie Patranella &
John R. Birdwell
Bill J. Cooley
Jack Boyett
Mrs. Zofie Nowlin
John J. Tauber
Mrs.Lottie Petrasek
Mrs. W. F. Tauber
Mrs. Zofie M. Nowlin
Miss Florence Farr
Johnny Cooley
Mrs. Lottie Petrasek
John J. Tauber
Mrs. Zofie M. Nowlin
John J. Tauber
St. Mary's Catholic:
Church
Mrs. W. F. Tauber
John J. Tauber
Mrs. Zofie M. Nowlin
John J. Tauber
Mrs. Lottie Petrasek
Marion Pugh
John J. Tauber
Jim Edge
St. Mary's Catholic
Church
A & M Methodist Church
Mrs. W. F. Tauber
Lots 14, 15, 16
Blk 4 Boyett
Pt. Lot 4 Blk 22
Lots 1, 2 Bik 1
. Lot 3 Blk 1
Lot 4 Blk 1
Lots 5, 6 Blk 1
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Lots 1, 2 Blk 2
Lot 2, 3 Bik 2
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Lot 6 Blk 2
Lot 7 Blk 2
Lots 8, 9, 10
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Lot 7, 8 Bik 1
Lot 9 Blk 1 "
Lot 10, Bik 1
Lots 11, 12 Blk 1
Lots 11, 12, 13
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Lot 14 Blk 2
Lot 15 Bik 2
Lot 16 Blk 2
Lot 17 Blk 2
Lots 18, 19, 20
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$112.50
$ 72.00
$ 90.00
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$ 83.63
$ 38.63
$ 67.50
$ 67.50
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$128.55
$ 67.50
$ 38.63
$ 83.63
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$ 86.25
$127.28
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$135.00
$298.42
$ 67.50
$ 67.50
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$ 45.00
$127.25
$ 90.00
$187.58
$ 63.64
$ 63.64
B. J. Cooley 72x71, 112.25x180
Wm. Tauber Tract
Mrs. W. F. Tauber Pt. 112.25x180
Wm. Tauber Tract
John J. Tauber Lot 6, Lot 7
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John J. Tauber Lots 1, 20 Blk 2
St. Mary's Catholic Church Lots 7,8 Blk 3
Mrs. W. F. Tauber Lot 1 Bik 4
Mrs. Zofie M. Nowlin Lot 20 Blk 4
E. E. McQuillen &
J. B. Hervey Pt. Lot A "
Mrs. Zofie M. Nowlin Lot B "
John J. Tauber Lot C
Mrs. Lottie Petrasek Lot D
Bill J. Cooley Lot 10 Blk 2
Miss Florence Farr Lot 11 Blk 2
John J. Tauber Lot 10 Bik 4
William Frank Tauber, Jr. Lot 11 Blk 4
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72. $ 54.00
108. $ 81.00
252.25 $189.19
252.25 $189.19
213. $159.75
106.5 $ 79.88
106.5 $ 79.88
134. $100.50
134. $100.50
134. $100.50
134. $100.50
96.5 $ 72.38
127.25 $ 95.44
106.25 $ 79.69
106.25 $ 79.69
Where more than one person, firm or corporation owns an interest in any
property above described, each person, firm or corporation shall be personally
responsible only for its, his or her pro rata of the total assessment against such
property in proportion as its, his or her respective interest bears to the total
ownership of such property and its, his or her respective interest in such property
may be released from the assessment lien upon payment of such proportionate sum.
IV
A hearing shall be given by and before the governing body of the City of
College Station, Texas, on the 6th day of July, 1961, at 7:00 p.m. at the City
Council Chamber of the City Hall of the City of College Station, Texas, to the
owners of the respective parcels of property and to all others in any wise interested,
whether they be name herein or not, all of whom are hereby notified to be and
appear at the time and place herein named and fixed, and said hearing shall be
continued from time to _'time and from day to day, if necessary, until all desiring
and presenting themselves to be heard, shall have been fully and fairly heard,
and at which hearing any mistakes, irregularities or invalidities in any of the
proceedings with reference to the making of said improvements or assessments there-
for may be corrected and the benefits by means of said improvements, and the amount
of the assessments, and the apportionment of the cost of the said improvements, and
all other matters and things shall be determined, and the real and true owners of
the property abutting upon the said streets to be improved, and any and all others
in any wise interested, their agents and attorneys shall be and appear at said
hearing at said time and place and present and make any protest or objections which
they or any of them may have as to the said improvements, as to the benefits there-
from, as to the cost thereof, as to the amounts of such assessments, or apt to
the amounts assessed, or as to any mistake, irregularity or invalidity in any
proceedings with reference to said assessments, such improvements, or to the
contracts therefor and as to any other matter or thing in any wise connected,
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either with said improvements, contracts, or proceedings and after all desiring
and presenting themselves to be heard, either in person or by agents, attorneys,
or representatives have been fully and fairly heard, the said hearing shall be
closed and assessments will by ordinance and in accordance with law and the pro-
ceedings of the city be levied against the respective parcels of abutting property
and the owners thereof, whether such owners be named herein or not, and whether
the property be correctly described or not. At such hearings anyone in any wise
interested or affected may subpoena witnesses and introduce evidence and have the
right to appear and be heard.
V
Assessments against abutting property and the owners shall be a personal
liability of the owners of such property and a first aild prior lien on the pro-
perty against which assessments are levied, and shall be due and payable on or
before thirty days after date of completion and acceptance of the improvements
and said assessments shall bear interest from date of such completion and ac-
ceptance until paid at the rate of eight per centum (8%) per annum, payable
annually, provided, any owner shall have the right to pay the assessment at any
time before maturity by paying principal and interest accrued to daXe of payment,
provided further that if default be made in the payment promptly as the same
matures the entire assessment shall be collectible together with reasonable
attorney fees and cost of collection, if incurred.
VI
The improvements in each unit constitute an entirely separate district
and independent unit, and the proposed assessment for the improvement in each
unit are in no wise affected by any fact or circumstance in connection with any
other unit all to the same extent and as fully as if entirely separate pro-
ceedings had separate hearings, and separate notices thereof ordered.
VII
The City Secretary of the City of College Station is directed to give
notice to the owners of property abutting upon the said portions of streets
named to be improved and to all others interested, of the time, place aid pur-
pose of such hearings and of all matters and things by causing a substantially
correct copy of this ordinance to be published at least three times in a news-
paper published in and of general circulation in the City of College Station,
Texas, the first of which publicationi,shall be made at least ten days before
the date of such hearing, and by such publication all owners of property abutt-
ing upon said portions of said streets and avenues, whether such owners be
named herein or not and whether the property be correctly described herein or
not, as well as to all others in any wise interested therein or to be affected
thereby, shall be and are duly notified and no error or mistake in the name
of any property owner, in the description of any property or in the amount of
any proposed assessment shall in anywise affect or invalidate such notice or
any assessment levied pursuant thereto, and the real and true owners of such
abutting property shall be and are by such notice duly and fully notified. The
City Secretary is further directed, but not required to give further notice of
such hearing by causing a substantial copy of such published notice to be mailed
to each owner of property abutting upon such portions of said streets and avenues,
but all such notices by mail shall be only cumulative of such notice by advertise-
ment and publication:, and said notice by advertisement and publication,shaI1 1i '
all cases be sufficient and binding whether or not any other kind or character of
notice be given.
VIII
The present condition of said portions of streets and avenues endangers
health and public safety, and it is necessary that the improvements thereof be
proceeded with at once and while the weather will permit, and such facts constitute
and create an emergency and an urgent public necessity requiring that the rules
and provisions providing for ordinances to be read more than one time or at more
than one meeting be suspended, and requiring that this ordinance be passed as
and take effect as an emergency measure, and such rules and provisions are
accordingly suspended and this ordinance is passed as and shall take effect as
an emergency measure and shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 23rd day of June, 1961.
ATTEST:
City Secretary
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APPROVED:
Mayor
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