14 of 1961 - A resolution declaring the Intention of the City Commission of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Sta Resolution No 1'
By Joe L. Christensen
COMMISSIONER
Declaring the Intention of the City
Commission of Salt Lake City, Salt
Lake County, State of Utah, to con—
struct improvements on certain streets
within said City consisting of grad,
ing, construction of sidewalks, curb
and gutter (where now now built),
concrete waterways where needed,
the construction of pavement, to con—
struct concrete valve and hydrant
boxes on existing City watermains, to 1
lower to new grades of streets sewer
and other manhole and structure covers
to construct concrete driveways, to.
create special Curb and Gutter Im—
provement District No. 324; to de—
fray the cost and expenses of said
improvements by special assessments !
to be levied against the property
benefited by such improvements; pro.
viding for a Notice of Intention
to authorize such improvements and
fixing a time and place for protests
against such improvements or the
creation of such Curb and Gutter
Extension.
Presented to the Board of Commissionert
AND PASSED
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CITY RECORDER
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ROLL CALL Salt Lake City, Utah, August 24 1961
VOTING Aye Nay
I move that the Resolution be adopted.
Christensen . .
Harrison
Smart
Romney RESOLUTION
Mn Chairman .
Result . . • •
✓ t-- A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF
SALT LAKE CITY, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH, TO CONSTRUCT
IMPROVEMENTS ON CERTAIN STREETS WITHIN SAID CITY CONSISTING OF
GRADING, CONSTRUCTION OF SIDEWALKS, CURB AND GUTTER (WHERE
NOT NOW BUILT), CONCRETE WATERWAYS WHERE NEEDED, THE CONSTRUCTION
OF PAVEMENT CONSISTING OF A STONEFILLED SHEET ASPHALT WEARING
SURFACE, 2 INCHES THICK, PLACED ON A 6 INCH THICK COMPACTED GRAVEL
BASE , TO CONSTRUCT CONCRETE VALVE AND HYDRANT BOXES ON EXISTING
CITY WATERMAINS, WHERE NECESSARY, TO LOWER TO NEW GRADES OF STREETS
SEWER AND OTHER MANHOLE AND STRUCTURE COVERS, TO CONSTRUCT CON-
CRETE DRIVEWAYS, TO CREATE A SPECIAL CURB AND GUTTER IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT NO. 324 IN SAID CITY; TO DEFRAY THE COST AND EXPENSES OF
SAID IMPROVEMENTS BY SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS TO BE LEVIED AGAINST THE
PROPERTY BENEFITED BY SUCH IMPROVEMENTS: PROVIDING FOR A NOTICE
OF INTENTION TO AUTHORIZE SUCH IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXING A TIME AND
PLACE FOR PROTESTS AGAINST SUCH IMPROVEMENTS OR THE CREATION OF
SUCH CURB AND GUTTER EXTENSION SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
Salt Lake County, State of Utah:
SECTION 1 . The Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, has determined and hereby determines that it will be in the
best interest of said City to grade, construct sidewalks, curb and gutter
(where not already built), as specified on the plans, specifications and
profiles on file in the office of the City Engineer, concrete waterways
where needed, and pavement consisting of a stonefilled sheet asphalt wear-
ing surface on a compacted gravel road base; the said streets to be improved
and boundaries of said Curb and Gutter Extension Special Improvement District,
all more particularly described in the Notice of Intention to construct the
proposed improvements hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 2. The proposed district shall be known as Curb and Gutter
Extension No. 324 of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
SECTION 3. The City shall pay the cost and expenses of improve-
ments to be constructed on streets and avenues on property owned by said
City.
Such part of the cost and expenses of the proposed improvements as
is not paid by the City shall be assessed against the lots and lands ad-
joining, abutting, contiguous or adjacent to the proposed improvements.
SECTION 4. Written protests against the proposed improvements or
against the creation of said district must be presented and filed in the
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office of the City Recorder on or before the 20th day of September
1961, at the hour of 5:00 o'clock P.M., and on the 21st day of
September , 1961 , at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A.M., at the City
Hall of said City such protests shall be heard and considered by the Board
of Commissioners. The City Recorder is hereby directed to give notice of
intention to make the proposed improvements and of the time within which
protests against the proposed improvements or the creation of said district
may be filed and the date when such protests will be heard and considered,
by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in Salt Lake City,
said publication to be in each issue of said newspaper for a period of at
least twenty (20) days, the first publication to be not less than twenty
(20) days prior to the date fixed for the meeting of the Board of City
Commissioners to consider such protests and by mailing said notice by
United States Mail, postage prepaid, to the owners of the property affected
by, or specially benefited by, such improvements as said property is des-
cribed in said notice, insofar as the names and addresses of said owners
can be ascertained from the most recent available County Assessment books,
and addressed to owners as provided by ordinance. Said notices shall be
mailed not later than five (5) days after the first publication of such
notice. The City Recorder shall have on file in his office a copy of the
Notice of Intention for the examination of any interested parties. Said
notice shall be in the following form, to-wit:
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
Utah, of the intention of such Board of Commissioners to make the following
described improvements:
It is proposed to make such improvements that will cause all the
streets in the extension not previously paved according to Salt Lake City
standards to be paved with a 2 inch thick stonefilled sheet asphalt wearing
surface placed on a 6 inch think compacted gravel base to construct standard
concrete curb and gutter, where they do not now exist, to construct concrete
waterways where needed, to remove trees where they are in the way of the
new improvements, to construct concrete valve and hydrant boxes on existing
city watermains, where necessary, to lower to new grades of streets sewer
and other manhole and structure covers, to grade the streets to receive the
new improvements between the street edges of existing sidewalks and to
construct concrete driveways where designated by property owners, to extend
from gutter lines to the street edges of sidewalks and to do all other work
necessary to complete the project in accordance with Salt Lake City standards.
All of the frontage streets in this extension, upon which improve-
ments are to be made, will be assessed in accordance with the improvements
constructed or made. Credit, to abutting property owners for street improve-
ments made under extensions previously built and assessed, will be made as
provided by state statutes and city ordinances.
This extension will be constructed within the boundaries of Salt Lake
City and within the sectbns, plats and subdivisions and upon the streets
and avenues listed below:
AREA:
University Heights 2nd Addition of Block 12, Progress Heights Sub-
division and Westminster Heights of Block 10 of 5 Acre Plat C, B.F.S.,
Lots 7 and 14 of Block 6, 5 Acre Plat A, B.F.S.
BOUNDARIES:
Kensington Avenue, Wilson Avenue & Westminster Avenue:
North - Emerson Avenue
South - 21st South Street
West - 14th East Street
East - 17th East Street
Coatsville Avenue and Layton Avenue;
North - 17th South Street
South - 21st South Street
West - West Temple Street
East - State Street
STREETS:
Along the following named streets the abutting property will be
assessed for improvements built at the herein below estimated rate per front
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foot of abutting property for curb and gutter, where not previously built,
and for designated widths of paving measured out from the street edge of
the concrete gutter to the center of the roadway, and for the abutter's
portion of all miscellaneous costs of the project.
Kensington Avenue
Both sides from 16th East Street, thence east 375 feet, 16 foot paving
and miscellaneous. Estimated rate per front foot $4.15 - Rate No. 1 .
Wilson Avenue
Both sides from 14th East Street, thence east 375 feet, curb and gutter,
and miscellaneous. Estimated rate per front foot $5.48 - Rate No. 2.
Westminster Avenue
Both sides between 14th and 15th East Streets, curb and gutter, 16
foot paving and miscellaneous. Estimated rate per front foot $8.63 - Rate
No. 3.
Coatsville Avenue
Both sides between Main and State Streets, curb and utter, 16 foot
paving and miscellaneous. Estimated rate per front foot $7.95 - Rate No. 4.
Layton Avenue
Both sides between Main and West Temple Streets, curb and gutter, 13
foot paving and miscellaneous. Estimated rate per front foot $7.48 - Rate
No. 5.
IMPROVEMENTS AND ESTIMATED COSTS
Rate Proposed Front Feet Of Estimated Cost Total
No. Street Improvements Abutting Property Per Front Foot Estimated Cost
1 Kensington 16' pavement
& misc. 726 $ 4.15 $ 3,012.90
2 Wilson Curb & Gutter
& misc. 527.96 5.48 2,893.22
3 Westminster Curb & Gutter, 16'
pavement-& Misc. 1,281 .80 8.63 1 1 ,061.93
4 Coatsville Curb & Gutter
16' pavement
& misc. 1 ,170.00 7.95 9,301 .50
5 Layton Curb & Gutter
13' pavement
& misc. 1,092.00 7.48 8,168.16
Total Estimated Cost of Abutter's Portion 34,437.71
Estimated Cost of City's Portion 4,024.60
Total Estimated Cost of Project Exclusive
of the extra costs of private driveways $ 38,462.31
All other necessary things shall be done to complete the whole project
in proper and workmanlike manner according to plans, profiles and specifi-
cations on file in the office of the City Engineer of Salt Lake City.
To defray the abutter's portion of the cost and expense of improvement
a special tax or assessment shall be levied against the properties improved.
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This tax or assessment shall be paid in 10 equal annual installments with
five per cent (5%) interest accruing on the unpaid balance of the tax which
was levied according to the front or linear foot frontage upon and against
all lots, pieces or parcels of land benefited and affected by the improve-
ments. The whole amount of the tax may be paid without interest within
15 days after notification by the Salt Lake City Treasurer of the amount
due.
All non-conforming improvements, such as lawns, sprinkling systems,
rock garden walls, fences, curbs, gutters, driveways, culverts, trees, etc.
which have been built or installed by abutting property owners within the
areas to be improved, must be removed by the property owners or at their
expense prior to the commencement of the project. If these improvements
are not removed by the property owners, they will be removed by the
contractor as general excavation and they will be disposed of by him as
directed by the City Engineer.
Parking areas, i .e., those areas between the back of the new curb and
the street edges of the existing sidewalks, not occupied by house walks or
driveways will be brought to finished grade using existing soil . No fine
grading, top soiling, seeding or sodding or installing of sprinkling
systems will be done under this improvement extension.
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The abutter's estimated cost per front foot &I/not include the extra
costs for private driveways, the costs of which will vary according to the
type, width and amount of parking area to be covered. These costs are
estimated to be approximately $0.50 per square foot for open type driveways
and approximately $1 .00 per square foot for driveways requiring pipe or
culvert in the gutter line. The cost of driveways will be assessed against
the properties benefited in addition to the assessment for curb and gutter,
paving and miscellaneous.
There shall be exemptions made for corner lots to be apportioned as
defined and provided for in the ordinances of Salt Lake City.
The estimated costs of the City's portion of the improvement consists
of the cost of one half of all general excavation, the cost of paving of
intersections, the cost of concrete drain gutters in intersections and the
cost of tearing out and replacing existing sidewalk and curb and gutter
In intersections made necessary by the new improvement.
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All protests and objections to the carrying out of such intention must
be presented in writing, stating therein lot, block or description of property,
together with the number of front feet (or square feet) to the City Recorder
on or before the loth day of September , 1961, the Board of
Commissioners at its first regular meeting thereafter, to-wit, the 21st
day of September , 1961, will consider the proposed levy and hear and
consider such protests and objections to said improvements as shall have
been made.
By order of the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah.
DATED: August 24. 1961
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First publication - August 30, 1961
Last publication - September 19, 1961
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City Commissioner Joe L. Christensen thereupon
moved that the Board of Commissioners adopt the foregoing resolution.
The resolution was thereupon put to a vote and unanimously adopted on
the following recorded vote:
Those voting AYE: �� �%��{�. ;�i
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Those voting NAY:
ATTEST:
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