Ordinance 1535ORDINANCE 1535
AN ORDINANCE ORDERING THE IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN
PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF EDMONDS BY THE CONVERSION
OF OVERHEAD ELECTRIC AND COMMUNICATION FACILITIES
TO UNDERGROUND FACILITIES AND ALL RELATED WORK
NECESSARY TO MAKE A COMPLETE IMPROVEMENT IN
ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE CITY STANDARDS; CREATING
AN ASSESSMENT DISTRICT BEING LOCAL IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT NO. 183; PROVIDING THAT PAYMENT OF SAID
IMPROVEMENT BE MADE BY SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS UPON
THE PROPERTY OF SAID DISTRICT, PAYABLE BY THE
MODE OF "PAYMENT OF BONDS", NOT TO EXCEED ONE-
THIRD OF THE COST PER ZONED FRONT FOOT, THE BALANCE
TO BE PAID FROM MONEY AVAILABLE TO THE CITY OF
EDMONDS AND THE PARTICIPATING UTILITIES; PROVIDING
FOR THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF LOCAL IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICTS WARRANTS AND LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
BONDS; AND CREATING A SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT FUND,
DISTRICT NO. 183.
WHEREAS, by Resolution of Intention No. 234 adopted
on the 5th day of January, 1971, the City Council of the
City of Edmonds declared its intention to create a local
improvement district as hereinafter set forth and all work
necessary to make a complete improvement in accordance with
the plans and specifications prepared by the City Engineer,
and
WHEREAS, due notice of the hearing upon said
Resolution of Intention No. 234 was given in the manner
as provided by law and such hearing was held by the City
Council as aforesaid, and all persons appearing at said
hearing were heard, all written protests filed with the
City Council on or before said date were duly considered
by the City Council, and the matter continued to the
next regular meeting of the City Council, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has now determined it to
be in the best interests of the City that said improvement
as hereinafter described be carried out and that a local
improvement district be created in connection therewith,
now, therefore,
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THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON
DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The following property within the City
of Edmonds, Washington is hereby ordered to be improved
by the conversion of overhead electric and communication
facilities to underground facilities, including electrical
energy transmission, telephone lines, cable television
coaxial and related lines, street lighting systems, and the
necessary street and right-of-way invasion, trenching,
back -filling and restoration., necessary manholes for trans-
former .vaults, or in the alternative surface mounted trans-
formers depending upon economic exigencies, the installation
of necessary pedestals and lighting ornamental poles or
standards, and all related work necessary to make a complete
improvement, in accordance with applicable City standards,
as follows:
Ninth Avenue North from Casper Street to a point
110 feet north of Daley Street, all situate in the
City of Edmonds, State of Washington.
The foregoing shall be carried out in accordance with the
maps, plans and specifications therefor prepared by the
respective electric utility and communication facilities
distributors, districts and companies as submitted to the
City Engineer and under his approval and authorization and
the same are hereby adopted.
Section 2. There is hereby created and established
a local improvement district to be called "Local Improvement
District No. 183", the boundaries of which are described
by Exhibit "A" a copy of which is attached hereto and by
this reference incorporated herein as if set forth in full.
Section 3. The cost and expense of said improvement
shall be assessed upon all the .property in the district
in accordance with the zone -and -termini method of assessment
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provided by law not to exceed one-third. of the cost per
zone front foot of said improvement and the balance to be
paid from monies available to the City of Edmonds, and
participation by the participating electrical and communica-
tions distributors, utility districts and companies and by
the contractual arrangements for services and supplies with
said organizations.
Section 4. The estimated cost and expense of said
improvement lying within the proposed district is hereby
declared to be $39,025.00 of which the City of Edmonds
in conjunction with the electrical utilities and communi-
cations distributors will pay and provide services in the
estimated sum of $24,500.00. The cost and expense of
said improvement, including all labor and materials required
to make a complete improvement, all engineering, surveying,
legal, inspection, ascertaining of ownership of the lots
or parcels of land included in the assessment district,
advertising, mailing and publication of notices, accounting,
administrative, printing, costs of acquisition, and other
expenses incidental thereto, shall be borne by and assessed
against the property specially benefited by such improve-
ment including in the local improvement district established,
embracing, as near as may be, all property specially
benefited by such improvement, in the estimated sum of
$14,325.00 representing $4.45 per zone foot, PROVIDED,
further that at the time fixed for hearing objections to
the confirmation of the assessment roll, and at the time
to which the hearing may be adjourned, the City Council
may correct, revise, raise, lower, change or modify the
roll or any part thereof, or set aside the roll and order
the assessment to be made de novo and at the conclusion
thereof confirm the roll by ordinance.
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Section 5. Local Improvement District Warrants
shall be issued in payment of the portion of the cost and
expense of the improvements herein ordered to be specially
assessed, such warrants to be payable out of the "Local
Improvement Fund, District No. 183" hereinafter created,
to bear interest from the date thereof at a rate not to
exceed eight per cent per annum and to be redeemed in
cash and/or by local improvement district bonds herein
authorized to be issued. The costs and expenses of the
improvement in the estimated sum of $14,525.00 as provided
herein, shall be defrayed and the bonds shall be redeemed
by the collection of special assessment to be levied
and assessed upon the property within said district, payable
in -ten equal annual installments, with interest at the
rate to be hereafter fixed by ordinance not exceeding
eight per cent per annum under the mode of "payment by
bonds". The bonds shall hear the rate of interest at no
more than eight per cent per annum, payable on or before
twelve years after the date of issue.
Section 6. All the work necessary to be done in
connection with the making of said improvement shall be
done by the respective electric utility and communication
distributors pursuant to contract with the City of Edmonds
pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington, Section 35.96.040.
Section 7. There is hereby created and established
for Local Improvement District No. 183, a special fund
to be known and designated as "Local Improvement Fund,
District No. 183," into which fund shall be deposited the
proceeds from the sale of interest bearing warrants drawn
against said fund which may be issued and sold by the City,
and the aggregate of the several amounts assessed, levied
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and collected on the lots and parcels of land in said
local improvement district; and against which funds shall
be issued cash.warrants for the costs and expenses in
connection with.said improvement as the same may become
due in the estimated sum. of $14,525.00 provided herein,
and against which funds shall be paid the bonds and the
interest thereon.
....OWE
MAYOR
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK 17
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: March 2, 1971
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: March 2, 1971
PUBLISHED: March 10, 1971
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Exhibit "A"
CITY OF EDMONDS, L.I.D. NO. 183
Beginning at the NE corner of the SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 24, Township
27 North, Range 3 East, W.M., and run thence West along the north line of said sub-
division, 230 feet; thence South parallel to the east line of said subdivision,
349.6 feet; thence S 89°13100"W, 86.8 feet; thence South parallel'to the east line
of said subdivision, 312.17 feet; thence West parallel to the north line of said
subdivision, 79.2 feet; thence South parallel to the east line of said subdivision,
255.0 feet; thence East parallel to the north line of said subdivision, 236.0 feet;
thence South parallel to the east line of said subdivision, 75.0 feet; thence West
parallel to the south line of said subdivision, 149.0 feet; thence South parallel
to the east line of said subdivision, 110 feet; thence East parallel to the south
line of said subdivision, 111.0 feet; thence South parallel to the east line of said
subdivision, 220 feet; thence East to a point on the south line of Tract 8 of Puget
Sound Machinery Depot Five -Acre Tracts, according to the plat there:' recorded in
Volume 5 of Plats, page 47, records of Snohomish County, Washington, at a distance of
216.6 feet East of the SW corner of said Tract 8; thence North parallel to the west
line of said Tract 8, 165 feet; thence West parallel to the south line said Tract 8,
116.6 feet; thence North, parallel to the west line said Tract 8,,120 feet; .thence
East parallel to the north line said Tract 8, 116.66 feet; thence north parallel to
the west line of said Tract 8, 75 feet, to the south line of Tract 7, said Puget
Sound Machinery Depot Five -Acre Tracts; thence East along said south line of Tract 7,
34 feet; thence northwesterly to a point on the south margin of Carol Way which point
is 223 feet East of the west line of said Tract 7; thence West along the south margin
of Carol Way, 118 feet; thence North parallel to the west line of said Tract 7, to the
south line of Tract 6 of said Puget Sound Machinery Depot Five -Acre Tracts; thence
East along the south line of said Tract 6, 147 feet; thence North parallel to the
west line of said Tract 6, 165 feet; thence West, parallel to the south line said
Tract 6, 167 feet; thence North, parallel to the west line of said Tract 6, 172.5
feet to a point in a line parallel to and 7.5 feet North of the south line of Tract 5,
in said Puget Sound Machinery Depot Five Acre Tracts; thence East along said parallel
line, 96 feet; thence North parallel to the west line of said Tract 5, 170 feet;
thence East parallel to the north line of said Tract 5, 120 feet; thence North,
parallel to the west line said Tract 5,.152.5 feet to the north line said Tract 5;
thence West along the north line said Tract 5 to the NW corner thereof; thence westerly
to the Point of Beginning.