Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, November 7, 1949 to May 21, 1952, lvc000007-595

Commissioner Jarrett moved these applications be tabled until the next meeting on May 7, 1952. Motion seconded by Commissioner Peccole and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Peccole and His Honor Mayor Pro Tem Whipple voting aye; noes, nones. Absent: Mayor Baker. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Commissioner Peccole introduced and moved the adoption of the following emergency ordinance, NO. 484 which was thereupon read in full, and at length, and is as follows: Assessment District NO. 100-16 EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 484 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE DECLARING THE DETERMINATION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, TO MAKE CERTAIN PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS IN SAID CITY BY PAVING, CURBING AND, GUTTERING AND CONSTRUCTING CONCRETE VALLEY GUTTERS ON CERTAIN STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS THEREIN, TO CREATE STREET IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-16 FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING SAID IMPROVEMENTS; AND TO DEFRAY THE ENTIRE COST AND EXPENSE THEREOF BY SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS MADE ACCORDING TO FRONTAGE; FIXING A TIME IN WHICH PROTESTS AGAINST THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS OR THE CREATION OF SUCH DISTRICT MAY BE HEARD AND CONSIDERED BY SAID BOARD; DIRECTING NOTICE THEREOF TO BE GIVEN; AND PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO. WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas in the County of Clark and State of Nevada deems it expedient and for the best interests of said City to im­prove certain streets and parts of streets hereinafter particularly described by the lay­ing of pavement thereon and by constructing on both sides thereof concrete curbs and gutters and concrete valley gutters wherever necessary; and WHEREAS, the Board deems it expedient and desirable to create Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-16 for the purpose of making said improvements, and to defray the entire cost and expense thereof by special assessments made according to frontage against the owners and the assessable lots, premises, and property specially benefited by such im­provements and included within said district; and WHEREAS, there is not included within said district any public or other proper­ty against which a,valid special assessment cannot be levied by said City; and WHEREAS, in no case does the estimated amount of any special assessment upon any lot or premises for said improvements exceed fifty percent of the value of such lot or pre­mises as shown upon the latest tax list or assessment roll for state and county taxation; and WHEREAS, in the judgment of the Board of Commissioners of said City of Las Vegas, it is fair and equitable that no portion of said cost and expense be borne by the City from its general funds; and WHEREAS, the said Board considers it necessary, desirable, and for the best in­terests of the City, to take the steps provided by law for the organization of an assess­ment district and the construction therein of said improvements; and WHEREAS, said Board, by a Resolution duly adopted and approved on the 19th day of March, 1952, ordered the City Engineer to make estimates of the expense thereof, and plats, diagrams and plans of the work and of the locality to be improved, and to file such estimates, plats, diagrams and plans with the City Clerk for public examination; and WHEREAS, said estimates, plats diagrams and plans were so filed on the 29th day of April, 1952; NOW, THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark and State of Nevada, does hereby declare its determination to make certain public improvements by paving, curbing and guttering and constructing concrete valley gutters on certain streets and parts of streets therein; to create a special assessment district there­fore, and to defray the entire cost and expense thereof by special assessments made according to frontage against the owners and the assessable lots, premises and property specially bene­fited by such improvements and included within said district. Section 2. That the Board proposes to pave said streets and parts of streets by grading and constructing thereon an oil bound gravel pavement and by constructing on both sides of said streets and parts of streets concrete curbs and gutters and concrete val­ley gutters wherever said improvements are missing, including alley approaches, together with such appurtenances as may be required, as more particularly shown by the plats, diagrams and plans of the work and locality to be improved now on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Las Vegas. Section 3. That the streets and parts of streets which the Board proposes to so have improved, wherever said improvements are missing are the following: On Bonanza Road and Linden Avenue, from east boundary of the Kelso-Turner Tract to Twenty First Street; on Walnut Avenue, from Bruce Street to Twenty fifth Street; on Mesquite Avenue, from east boundary of the Kelso- Turner Tract to Twenty Fifth Street; on Cedar Avenue; from Bruce Street to Twenty Fifth Street; on Poplar Avenue, from Fourteenth Street to Twenty Fifth Street; on Elm Avenue from Bruce Street to Twenty Fifth Street; on Marlin Avenue, from alley between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets to Twenty Fifth Street; on Ash Ave­nue, from Twenty First Street to Twenty Third Street; on Ogden Avenue, from Bruce Street to Twenty Third Street; on Sunrise Avenue, from Fremont Street to Twentieth Street; on Thirteenth Street, from north line of the Kelso-Turner Tract to Bonanza Road; on Fourteenth Street, on Fifteenth Street, and on Sixteenth Street from Stewart Avenue to Bonanza Road; on Bruce Street from Charleston Boulevard to Bonanza Road; on Eighteenth Street, from Sunrise Ave- bue to Stewart Avenue; on Nineteenth Street, from Sunrise