HomeMy WebLinkAbout1970-1220 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of certain streets by re-
paving and installing sidewalks, curbs, gutters and con-
crete ramps, and by relocating and placing underground
certain public utility facilities; establishing a Local
Improvement District; providing for the method of payment
for such improvement; and creating a special fund.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That the following improvements shall be made to the
following streets, to -wit:
1. Install new sidewalks, curbs and gutters on "A" Street
between North 3rd Street and Naches Avenue;
2. Install new concrete ramps both below and above street
level on "A" Street;
3. Repave "A" Street as necessary because of new construc-
tion work;
4. Install new sidewalk, curbs and gutters along the
• extent of new building construction and repave the street as
necessary because of new construction work on Naches Avenue;
5. Install sidewalk, curbs and gutters, and repave street
as necessary, on North side of Yakima Avenue at its intersection
with vacated North 4th Street;
6. Relocate and add new underground lines for watermain,
storm drain and sewer line in "A" Street;
7. Install new water lines and storm drain underground in
Naches Avenue;
8. Reroute sewer line by constructing a new sewer line on
North 3rd Street and on Yakima Avenue;
9. Relocate and place underground the telephone cable in
"A" Street;
10. Relocate and place underground the power lines in "A"
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Street /to be constructed in full accordance with plans and speci-
fications to be prepared or approved by the City Engineer and
filed with the City Clerk.
Section 2. There is hereby created a Local Improvement District
to be called "Local Improvement District No. 978 ", which said district
shall include all the following described property, to -wit:
That part of Blocks 70 and 90, The Town of North Yakima, now
Yakima, recorded in Volume E of Plats, Page 1, records of
Yakima County, Washington, together with vacated street and
alleys, bounded as follows:
Beginning at the Northeasterly corner of said Block 90; thence
South 18 ° 27'05" East along the Easterly line thereof 270.00
feet to the Northeasterly corner of Lot 12, said Block 90; thence
South 71 ° 32'45" West along the Southerly line of the alley
299.87 feet to the Northwesterly corner of Lot 1, said Block
90; thence South 18 ° 27' East along the Easterly line of North
4th Street 130.01 feet to the Southwesterly corner of Lot 1,
said Block 90; thence South 71 ° 32'30" West 100.00 feet to the
Southeasterly corner of Lot 12, said Block 70; thence North
18 ° 27' West along the Westerly line of North 4th Street 130.01
feet to the Northeasterly corner of Lot 12, said Block 70;
thence South 71 ° 32'18" West along the Southerly line 1111 of
the alley 299.89 feet to the Northwesterly corner of Lot 1, said
Block 70; thence North 18 ° 26'53" West along the Easterly line
of North 3rd Street 20.00 feet to the Southwesterly corner of
Lot 32, said Block 70; thence North 71 ° 32'18" East along the
Northerly line of the alley 139.94 feet to the Southeasterly
corner of Lot 32, said Block 70; thence North 18 ° 26'56" West
250.01 feet to the Northeasterly corner of Lot 23, said Block
70; thence North 71 ° 32' East along the Southerly line of East
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"A" Street 209.94 feet to the centerline of North 4th Street;
thence continuing along the Southerly line of said East "A"
Street North 71 ° 33' East 349.86 feet to the point of beginning,
within the City of Yakima, Yakima County, Washington;
all of which property, as one parcel, shall be subject to assessments
as property deriving all special benefits from the improvements with-
out regard to the zone and termini method.
Section 3. All costs and expenses in connection with the con-
struction of said improvements, including the cost and expense of
engineering, legal, inspection, advertising, publication of notices,
and all other expenses incident thereto, shall be levied and assessed
upon all of the property, as one parcel, embraced within said Local
Improvement District, in the manner and as provided by the laws of the
• State of Washington and the ordinances of the City of Yakima, and said
City shall not be liable in any manner for any portion of said costs
and expenses of said improvement.
Section 4. All of the aforesaid construction work shall be in
accordance with the plans and specifications, profiles, maps and
detailed drawings which have been prepared or approved by the City
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Engineer, filed with the City Clerk and which are hereby approved and
adopted.
Section 5. All of the work necessary to be done in connection
with the making of said improvement shall be done and made by con-
tract upon competitive bids, and the City shall have the,power.to
reject any and all bids.
Section 6. There is hereby created a special fund, to be called
"Local Improvement Fund, District No. 978 ", into which shall be
placed all sums paid on account of the aforesaid special assessments,
including all interest and penalties thereon, and in the event of the
sale of local improvement bonds by the City, all premium and interest
on said bonds issued for said improvement.
Section 7. Bonds bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 8%
per annum, payable on or before 22 years from the date of issuance,
shall be issued in payment of the costs and expense of said improve-
ment, which bonds shall be redeemed by the collection of special
• assessments to be levied and assessed upon the property within said
district, payable in 20 equal annual installments with interest at a
rate not to exceed 83% per annum, interest payable annually under the
mode of payment "payment by bonds ", as defined by the statutes of the
State of Washington and the ordinances of the City of Yakima.
Section 8. This ordinance is one relating to local improvements
or assessments therefor, and shall become effective immediately upon
its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the
City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this llth day of
May, 1970.
Mayor
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