HomeMy WebLinkAbout1340 AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of Ohio Avenue from Thirteenth
Street North to Port Washington Narrows; Lincoln Avenue from Thirteenth Street
North to Fifteenth Street; Chester Avenue from Eleventh Street North to
Fifteenth Street; Fourteenth Street from Ohio Avenue East to Chester Avenue;
Fifteenth Street from Ohio Avenue E~st to Chester Avenue; Seventeenth Street
from High Avenue East to Ohio Avenue; Also Chester Avenue from Eleventh Street
to Thirteenth Street, in accordance with the maps, plans and specifications on
file in the off~ce of the CityClerk, establishing an improvement district;
providing for the levying of assessments for the payment of such improvement,
and making such improvement payable by bonds.
~E CITY OCI,~I~5ION 0ff ~tE CITY OF '~RE~f.ERTON DOES 0'RDAIN AS FOLL0'?S:
Section 1. That Ohio Avenue from Thirteenth Street North to Port Washing-
ton Narrows; Lincoln Avenue from Thirtee.nth Street North to FiFteenth Street;
Chester Avenue from Eleventh Street North to Fifteenth Street; Fourteenth
Street from Ohio Avenue E~:~st to Chester Avenue; Fifteenth Street from 0h.io
Avenue East to Chester Avenue; Seventeenth Street from High Avenue East to
Ohio Avenue, 'be improved by clearing, grubbing and grading; that most of the
protests filed aEainst improvement of said streets and avenues have been with-
drawn after the hearings held in connection with such improvement and on the
filing of a revised estimate by the City Engineer, providing for the elimination
of surfacing and.oiling such streets and avenues; that such surfacing and oil-
ing is hereby declared to be unnecessary and has been and is hereby eliminated
from the improvement; ALSO that Chester Avenue from Eleventh Street to Thir-
teenth Street be improved by the construction of five (5) f,oot sidewalks on
the '~est side only, all of said improvements 'to be in accordance with the maps,
plans and apecific~tions on file in the office of the .City Clerk of the City
of Bremerton, together with the doing of any and all other work in connection
therewith as may be necessary to make such improvement a com.plete job.
Section 2. That' the Cost and expense of the said improvement shall be
borne by and assessed against the property included in the assessment district
hereinafter created, in accordance with the provisions of Section 9365 of
Remington's Revised Statutes, except such proportion of said cost as shall be
borne by and paid for by either a Department of the State of Washington, or a
Department of the National Government, created for emergency, relief, which
proportion of such cost and expense is hereby declared to. be in accordance with.
special benefits conferred upon such property.
Section 3. There is hereby established and created a Local Improvement
District, to be called and known as "Local Improvement District No. 212,"
the boundaries of which district, are described as follows: ......
Beginning at the intersection of the centerlines of High Avenue
and Seventeenth Street; thence North along the centerline of
High Avenue 178 feet, said point being midway between the
centerline of Seventeenth Street and Meander Line; thence
Southeasterly and NortheaSterly along a line midway between
the centerline of Seventeenth Street and Government Meander
Line, a distance of 395.2 feet more or less to a point midway
between High Avenue and Ohio Avenue; thence North on a line
midway between High Avenue and Ohio Avenue, 172 feet more or
less to Government Meander line; thence following Government
Meander Line Northeasterly and Southeasterly 700 feet more or
less to a point midway between Ohio Avenue and Chester Avenue;
thence South on a line midway between Ohio Avenue and Chester
Avenue 520 feet more or less to a point midway between Fif-
teenth Street and Government Meander Line; thence East 25?
feet more or less to centerline of Chester Avenue; thence
South along the centerline of Chester Avenue 625 feet more
or less to the centerline of Fifteenth Street; thence East
along centerline of Fifteenth Street 168.53 feet to a p.oint
midway between Chester Avenue and Broadway Avenue; thence
South on a line midway between Chester Avenue and Broadway
Avenue, 1331.8 feet to centerline of Eleventh Street; thence
West along centerline of Eleventh Street, 395.5 feet to a point
midway between Chester Avenue and Lincoln Avenue; thence
North on a line midway between Chester Avenue and ~in.coln
Avenue, 800 feet to the eenterline of Thirteenth Street;
thence West along the centerline of Thirteenth Street, 785
feet to a point midway between High Avenue and Ohio Avenue;
thence North on a line midway between High Avenue and Ohio'
Avenue, 1042.5 feet, to a point midway between Fifteenth
and Seventeenth~Streets; thence West 9n,..a line midway between
Fifteenth Street and Seventeenth Street, 390.2 feet to center-
line of High Avenue; thence North along.~the centerline of
High Avenue, 407.5 feet to cente'rline of Seventeenth Street
and point of ~eginntng.
Ordinance No. 1340 (cont)
Section 4. That the cost and expense of said improvement, to be borne by
said improvement district and exclusive of the portion borne by either the
State of Washington or the United States Department for Emergency Relief, as
in Section 2 of this Ordinance provided, Shall be assessed against said property
included in said improvement district in proportion to said area, and in
accordance with the provisions of Section 9365 of Remington's Revised Statutes
of the State of Washington, and the remainder of said cost of the improvement
is to be paid l~or by arrangement with either a Department of the State of
Washington, or a department of the United States Government as hereinbefore
provided.
Section 5. Bonds hearing interest at the rate of not to exceed six per
cent per annum, payable on or before ten years from the date of issuance, shall
be issued in payment of the cost, and expense of said improvement assessed
against the property included in the district hereinabove described, which
bonds shall be redeemed by a collection of special assessments levied and
assessed against the property within the said district, payable in eaual annual
installments, with interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent per annum
under the mode of payment by bonds as required by law and the ordinances of
the City of,Bremerton. These bonds shall be delivered tc the contractor in
the redemption of warrants on the local improvement district funds issued on
the estimate of the City Engineer: or the ~ity of Bremerton may, at its option,
sell said bonds either to the United States C~vernment or to any private person
or persons, and make such redenption in cash.
Section 6. This ordinance shall, after its first reading, be placed on
file with the City Clerk for a period of at least one week and shall take
effect thirSy days from and after its final reading, passage ~d publication
as provided by law.
PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, On first reading,
this 28th day of August, 1940.
PASSED AND
ADOr'~ED on second reading, this 18th day of September, 1940,
signed by the Mayor, and attested by the City Clerk in authentication off such
passage.
Maybr
Attest:
~E. J. McCALL, City Clerk by ~ '
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