HomeMy WebLinkAboutO-116ORDINANCE NO. 116
An ordinance to determine upon, order and authorize
the 'mprovement of portions of certain streets, avenues,
highways and other public places within the Corporate
limits of the Town of Fairhope, Alabama, -by filling, gra-
ding, leveling, -raveling, paving, bridging, curbing,
guttering, draining and the construction of drains or
lateral storm sewers in connection with such improve-
ments for the purpose of properly draining the portions
of streets so improved and the property abutting thereon
together with all necessary appurtenances thereto; to
provide ofr the paymane of all costs and expenses there-
of byassessment against the property abutting on the por-
tion of such streets, avenues, highways and public places
so improved, drained, served, protected or benefited by
the extent of the increased value thereof by reason of
the special benefits derived from such improvements; to
describe the nature and extent of the work, the general
character of the materials to be used and the location
and terminal points thereof, and the streets, avenues,
or other highways or parts thereof embraced therein, and
to efine the area to be drained, served or benefited by
such strom water drains and lateral storm water sewers;
to direct that full details, drawings, plans, specifi-
cations and surveys of said work and estimates to be pre-
pared by the Town engineer; to designate the officer with
whom such plans shall be filed; to designate the party
under whose supervision the work shall be done and the
improvements made; to provide for the publication of this
ordinance and the mailing of copies thereof to the per-
sons last assessing for Torn taxation the property which
may be assessed for said improvements; to fix and appoint
a time for and to authorize the holding of a meeting of
the Council to hear objections to said improvements, and
to give to this ordinance an official designation.
BE IT ORDAINED BY TEE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF
FAIRHOPE, ALABAMA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That it be and hereby is determined upon,
ordered and authorized by the Town Council of the Town
of Fairhope, Alabama, that the Town of Fairhope, Alabama,
design or cause to be designed, contract for, execute and
cause to be executed, improvements to and on the following
streets, avenues, highways, and other public places with-
in the corporate limits of the Town of Fairhope, Alabama
viz:
(a) SECTION STREET town limits on the north to
White Avenue on South.
(b) Fels Avenue from Section Street on the East to
Mobile Avenue on the West.
(c) MOBILE AVENUE from town limits on the South to
Fairhope Avenue on the North, including new bridge over
Stack's Gully.
(d) MAGNOLIA AVENUE from Fairhope Avenue on the Wett
to Section Street on the East.
(e)'SUMMIT STREET from Kiefer Street on the North
to Fairhope Avenue on the South.
(f) FAIRHOPE AVENUE from town limits on the East to
Mobile Bay on the West.
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(g) WHITE AVENUE from Section Street on the East
to
Mobile Avneue on the West.
(h) BAY VIEW STREET from White Avenue
on the South
to
end of Street on the North.
(i) CHURCH STREET from Magnolia Avenue
on the North
to
Fels Avenue on the South.
(j) MORPHY AVENUE from Section Street
on the East
to
Church Street on the West.
(k) DELEMAR STREET from Section Street
on the East
to
Church Street on the West.
(1) KIEFER STREET from Bay View Street to Summit Street.
Including all street, avenues and alley intersections
and public places; all as per plat of the Town of Fairhope
as decorded in Record Miscellaneous Vol. 1, Pages 274-275
of the Probate Records of Baldwin County, Alabama; by
filling, grading, leveling, graveling, paving, bridging,
curbing, guttering, draining and construction of storm
water drains, or lateral storm sewers in connection with
such improvements for the purpose of properly draining
such portions of said streets, avenues, highways, and
other public places, and the property abutting thereon,
together with all necessary appurtenances thereto.
SECTION 2. That the area to be drained, served or
venefited by each of the stoom water drains or lateral
storm water severs to be constructed in connection with
such improvements for the purpose of properly draining
said streets and the property abutting thereon, be and
the same hereby is defined to be the property fronting
on each portion of the streets, avenues, and highways
herein provided to be improved, actually drained, served
or benefited by each of said storm water drains or
lateral storm water sewers.
SECTION 3. That all the costs and expenses of afore-
said works and improvements be assessed upon and against
the property abutting on the portion of such treets,
avenues, alleys, highways and other public places so im-
proved, served, drained, protected or benefited by such
improvements to the extent of the increased value thereof
by reason of the special benefits derived from such im-
provements, provided that for the intersections of streets,
avenues,alleys or other highways so improved, the cost
of improving any intersection or any part thereof, shall
be assessed against the lots or parcels of land abutting
on each of the streets, avenues, alleys, or other high-
ways so intersecting for a half block in each direction
therefrom; provided that for purpose of computing assess-
ments hereunder no block shall be considered as extending
more than 1 000 feet from any interesection so improved,
for such sidewalk improvements, including curbing and
guttering all of the costs thereof for street and avenue
corners, shall be assessed against the lots abutting on
or nearest said improvement and the entire costs of the
sidewalks improvement, including curbing and guttering
at the intersection of any alley with a street or avenue
or other highway, shallte assessed in fair proportion
against the respective lots or parcels of land abutting
on or cornering on the alley at such intersection; but
in no case shall the assessment against any lots or par-
cels of land be greater than the increased value of such
lots or parcels of land by reason of the special bene-
ifts derived from such improvement. The costs and expen-
ses of such works and improvements shall include the expense
of the preliminary and other surveys and the inspection
and superintendence of such work, printing and publishing
the notices, resolutions, and ordinances required, inclu-
ding notice of assessment, the cost of construction, pre-
paring bonds, interest on money borrowed during construction
or on bonds when the bonds have been issued in antici-
it
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pation of the collection of the assessment, and any other
expenses necessary for the completion of such ;mprovement.
SECTION 4. That the work and improvements here
determined upon and authorized shall be roadway or treet
paving of the type recognized and known as surface treat-
ment, consisting of eight inches of compacted dandclay
base with asphaltic and tar top finished to uniform line
and grade with stone chips. On streets without existing
curb and gutters there will be included a wood curb of
such depth as to conform and hold in palce the pavement;
all paving to include all necessary intersections; storm
water drains to the extent necessary to properly drain
the portions of said streets to be improved hereunder
and the property abutting thereon, together with all neces-
sary appurtenances and filling, grading, leveling, draining,
and graveling.
SECTION 5. That the general character of the material
to be used for such work and improvements shall be set
out inthe preceding paragraph.
SECTION 6. That all the work to be done and the
improvements to be made hereunder shall be done and made
unddr the supervision of J. B. Converse & Company, Inc.,
(an incorporated civil engineering company), as Town
Engineer of the Town of Fairhope, Alabama, it being there-
by appointed for such purpose by the Council.
SECTION 9. That the said J. B. Converse & Company,
Inc., as Town Engineer be and it hereby is directed to
prepare full details, drawings, plans, specifications
and surveys of said work and estimates thereon and thereof
which shall be when completed, palced on file not later
than two weeks pr&or to the date of the meeting of the
Town Council hereinafter provided for, in the office of
the Town Clerk of the Town ofFairhope, Alabama, where
property owners who may be affected by such improvements
may see and examine the same.
SECTION 8. That this ordinance be published once
a seek for two consecutivd weeks in the "Fairhope
Courier", a newspaper published inthe Town of Fairhope,
tilabama, and that a copy thereof be sent by registered
mail, postage prepaid, to the persons last assessing for
town taxation the property which may be assessed for said
improvements at their last known adressesy said notices
to be so mailed not less than ten days before the meeting
of the Council provided for in the next succeeding section.
SECTION 9. That the Town Council of the Town of
Fairhope, Alabama meet at 8 o'clock P.M. at the Town
Hall of the said 'own on Tuesday the 2nd dray of January,
1934, for the purpose of hearing and at which time it
will hear any objections or remonstrances that may be
made to said improvements, the manner of making the same,
or the character of material or materials to be used.
SECTION 10. That this ordinance is hereby termed
and designated shall be known and may be cited as "Fair -
hope Paving Venture No. 1. Ordinance."
Mayor
Dlerk