Ordinance 549ORDINAT,TCE NO. 549
An Ordinance relating to the constructioa and reconstruction of
sidewalks in the City of Edmonds and providing for the payment
therefor by the owners of abutting property.
BE IT ORDAIt1ED BY THE CIYY COUNOIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS :
Section 1: Definitions. The term "Street" as used in this
Ordinance, s a inclu a boulevard, avenue, street, alley, way,
lane, square or place. The term "Sidewalk shall include any
and all structures or forms of street improvement included in
the space between the street margin and the roadway.
Section 2: Whenever a portion not longer than one block in.
lengEh of any Street in the City of Edmonds shall not be im-
proved by the construction of a sidewalk thereon, or the side-
walk thereon shall have become unfit or unsafe for purposes of
public travel, and such Street, adjacent to both ends of said
portion., shall be so improved and in good repair and the City
Council of the City of Edmonds shall b�r Resolution find that
the improvement of such portion of suet Street by the construct-
ion or reconstruction of a sidewalk thereon is necessary for the
public safety and convenienee the duty, burden and expense
of constructing or reconstructing such sidewalk shall devolve
upon the property directly abutting upon such portion; provided,
that such abutting property shall not be charged with any costs
of construction or reconstruction under this Ordinance in excess
of fifty per cent of the Valuation of such abutting property,
exclusive of improvements thereon, according to the valuation
last placed upon it for purposes of general taxation.
Section 3: Whenever the City Council of the City of Edmonds
aall hi7ve- adopted such Resolution it shall cause a notice to
be served on the owner of the property directly abutting on
such portion of such street, instructing said owner to construct
or reconstruct a sidewalk, on such portion, in accordance with
the plans and specifications which shall be attached to such
notice. Such notice shall be deemed sufficiently served if
delivered in person to the owner or if left at the home of such
owner with a person of suitable age and discretion then resident
therein, or with an agent of such owner, authorized to collect
rentals -on such property, or, if such owner is a non-resident
of the !Rate of Washington, by mailing a copy to his last known
address, or if such owner be unknown, or if his address be un-
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known, then by posting a copy in a conspicuous place at such
portion of said street where such improvement is to be made.
Such notice shall specify a reasonable time within which such
construction or reconstruction shall be made and shall state
that in case such -owner shall fail to make'the same within
such time, the City -of Edmonds will proceed to make the same
through its Street Superintendent, and that said Street Sup-
intendent will report to the City Council, at a subsequent
date, to be definitely stated in said Notice an Assessment
Roll showing the lot or parcel of land directly abutting on:
such portion of such Street so improved, the cost of such
improvement, and the name of the owner, if known, and that the
City Council of the City of Edmonds at the time stated in said
notice or at the time or times to which the same may be adjourned,
to hear any and all protests against the proposed assessment.
Upon the expiration of the time fixed within which the owner
is required to construct or reconstruct whch sidewalk, if the
owner has failed to perform such work, the City may proceed
to perform such work, and the Street Superintendent of the
City of Edmonds performing such work shall, within the time
fixed in the notice,'report to the said City Council an
Assessment Roll showing the lot or parcel of land directly
abutting on such portion of such street so improved, the cost
of such work, and the name of the owner, if known. The City
Council of the City of Edmonds shall at the time in such notice
designated, or at an adjourned time or times, assess the cost
of such improvement against said property and shall fix the
time and nar:ner z-or payment thereof, which said assessment
shall become a lien upon said property, and s,1 be collected
in the manner as is provided by law for collec4ion of special
assessments under Chapter 27, Title 60, aemington's izevised
Statutes of Washington. .
Section 4: Zor the purposes of this Ordinance all property
aviLg s rontage upon the sides or margins of any street shall
be deemed to be abutting property, and such property shall be
chargeable, as proveded by this Ordinance, for all -costs of
construction or reconstruction or any form of sidewalk improve-
ment between the margin of said street and the roadway lying
in front of and adjacent to said property.
Section 5: Ordinance ;278 of the City of Edmonds be and the
same is hereby repealed.
Section 6: This Ordinance stall take effect and be in full
force and effect from and after its passage ar:d publication as
provided by law.
.LTTEST: Irita Gust
Deputy Oity Clerk
Passed: June 20, 1944
Published June 22, 1944
'. A. Zourtner
Mayor
I hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is a
true and correct copy of
Ordinance 1uo 549 of the City
of Edmonds, Washington.
iyep ty City Clerk