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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, February 17, 1954 to September 21, 1955, lvc000009-609

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    assessment district and the construction therein of said improvements; and WHEREAS, said Board, by a resolution duly adopted and approved on the 6th day of July, 1955, 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, plate, diagrams and plans were so filed on the 16th day of August, 1955; 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 installing concrete valley gutters on certain streets and parts of streets therein, to create a special assessment district therefor, and to defray the entire cost and expense thereof by special assessments made according to benefits against the owners and the assessable lots, premises and property specially benefited by such improvements and included within said district, proportionately to the benefits received. SECTION 2. That the Board proposes to improve 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, gutters, and concrete valley gutters on certain streets and parts of streets where- ever said improvements are missing, 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 so as to have improved are the following: OWENS AVENUE, HARRISON AVENUE, VAN BUREN AVENUE, JACKSON AVENUE, MONROE AVENUE, MADISON AVENUE, WASHINGTON AVENUE, AND MORGAN AVENUE from the Westerly line of "H" Street to the Easterly line of "A" Street; ADAMS AVENUE from the Westerly line of "H" Street to the Easterly line of "D" Street and from the Westerly line of "C" Street to the Easterly line of "A" Street; MCWILLIAMS AVENUE from the Westerly line of "H" Street to the Westerly right-of-way line of the Union Pacific Railroad; WILSON AVENUE from the Westerly line of "H" Street to the Westerly line of the Union Pacific Railroad; BONANZA ROAD from the North and South one-quarter (¼) Section line, Section 28, and its Southwardly prolonga­tion, T20S, R61E, MDB&M to the Westerly right-of-way line of the Union Pacific Railroad; "H" STREET, "G" STREET, "F" STREET: "E" STREET, "D" STREET, "C" STREET, AND "A" STREET from the Southerly line of Bonanza Road to the Northerly line of Owens Avenue; "B" STREET from its inter­section at "A" Street to the Northerly line of Owens Avenue. SECTION 4. That the special assessment district which it is proposed to create shall be designated Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-36, and it shall include all the lots, premises and property, to the full depth of such, fronting, adjoining and abutting upon said streets and parts of streets. The boundaries of said proposed Assessment District are as follows: Beginning at a point which is the Southwesterly corner of Block 7 of the original Las Vegas Townsite, and running thence Westwardly across "H" Street and continuing Westwardly a distance of two hundred eighty (280) feet to a point in the North line of Bonanza Road, thence North­wardly two hundred eighty (280) feet distant from and parallel to the Easterly line of "H" Street, a distance of two hundred (200) feet to a point, which point is the true point of beginning; thence Northwardly two hundred eighty (280) feet distant along a line parallel to the Easterly line of "H" Street and including all property fronting on the Westerly side of "H" Street for a depth of two hundred (200) feet or to the rear boundaries of such property fronting on "H" Street, whichever distance may be the lesser, excepting therefrom all of Marble Manor. Continuing Northwardly along the last described course to its intersection with the Westwardly prolongation of a line lying two hundred eighty (280) feet Northwardly and parallel to the Northern Boundary of H.F.M.&M. Addition, running thence from said intersection Eastwardly along the said prolongation and the line two hundred eighty (280) feet Northerly and parallel to H.F.M.&M. Addition, including all property fronting on the Northerly side of Owens Avenue for a depth of two hundred (200) feet or to the rear boundaries of such property fronting on Owens Avenue, whichever distance may be the lesser; to its intersection with the City limits of the City of Las Vegas; thence Southwardly along the said City limits of the City of Las Vegas to the Northeast corner of Valley View Addition; thence Eastwardly along the City limits of the City of Las Vegas to a point which is the intersec­tion of a line two hundred (200) feet Easterly of, and parallel to the East line of "A" Street; thence Southwardly along said line two hundred (200) feet Eastwardly and parallel to the Easterly line of "A" Street, including all property fronting on the Easterly side of "A" Street for 9-8-55