HomeMy WebLinkAbout715CITY OF KENT I WASHINGTON
RESOLUTION NO. M
A RESOLUTION of the City.Council of the City
of Kent, Washington, declaring its intention to
improve West Gowe Street from South 4th Avenue
to South 6th Avenue and South 6th Avenue from
West Gowe Street to West Meeker Street by
constructing approximately 1115 lineal feet of
two lane street, which will vary in width from
34 feet to 40 feet between curbs, and which will
include asphalt concrete pavement, cement concrete
curbing and gutters, cement concrete sidewalks,
storm drains, illumination, landscaping, underground
power and communication systems, and an improved
railroad crossing with cantilever signal lights, and
to create a local improvement district to assess the
cost and expense of carrying out such improvement
against the property specially benefited thereby:
and notifying all persons who des ire to object to
the project to appear and present their objections
~ a meeting of the City Council to be held on
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT,
WASHINGTON, as follows:
Section 1. It is the intention of the Council of the City of
Kent, Washington, to order the improvement of the property described in
Exhibit A, attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof, all
within the City of Kent, Washington, by improving West Gowe Street from
South 4th Avenue to South 6th Avenue and South 6th Avenue from West Gowe
Street to West Meeker Street by constructing approximately 1115 lineal feet
of two lane street, which will vary in width from 34 feet to 40 feet between
curbs, and which will include asphalt concrete pavement, cement concrete
curbing and gutters, cement concrete sidewalks, storm drains, illumination,
landscaping, underground power and communication systems, and an
improved railroad crossing with cantilever signal lights.
All of the foregoing shall be in accordance with the plans and
specifications therefor prepared by the City Engineer.
The City reserves the right to make changes in such improvement
as long as such changes do not materially affect the purpose of the improvement.
Section 2. The total estimated cost and expense of the improve-
ment is hereby declared to be $214,180.00 of which it is estimated that
$31,400.00 shall be borne by and assessed against the property specially
benefited by the improvement to be included in a local improvement district
to be established embracing as near as may be all property specially benefited
by the improvement.
Section 3. All persons who may desire to object to the improve-
ment herein described are hereby notified to appear and present such objections
at a meeting of the City Council to be held in the Council Chambers in the
City Hall, Kent, Washington, at~:OO o'clock p.m. (PST} on ~t.br~A""11J 1/fll,
which time and place are hereby fixed for hearing all matters relating to the
proposed improvement, and all objections thereto, and for determining the
method of payment for that improvement.
Section 4. The City Engineer is hereby directed to submit to
the City Council on or prior to f,. br~-."'1 1 ~~~~ , all data and informa-
tion required by law to be submitted.
The foregoing resolution was ADOPTED by the City Council of
the City of Kent, Washington, at a regular open meeting thereof this i 7th
day of January, 1972.
ATTEST:
City Attorney
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LEGAL DESCRil TION FOR
LID 262 ( GOWE ST. HlP.)
That portion of the north half of Section 24 Township 22
Range 4 EWM; that portion of Blocks 15, 18 and 23 in the Plat
of Yesler's 1st Addition to the Town of Kent, recorded in
Volume 5 of Plats, Page 64, King County, 'vashington, and that
portion of Block 1 in the rlat of Car Line Addition to Kent
recorded in Volume 10 of Plats, Fnp:e 83, King County, Washington
described as follows: Beginning at a point lvhich lies 90 feet
south of Meeker Street and 180 feet west of the west line of
said Block 15, being the True Point of Beginning of property
herein described; thence east on a line wl1ich is parallel with
and 90 feet south of said Street to the northwest corner of
Lot 18 in said Block 15; thence continuing east along the north
lines of Lots 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11 and 10 .to the
northeast corn~r of said Lot 10 in said Block 15; thence south
along the east line of said Lot 10 to the southeast corner of
said Lot 10; thence continuing south to the northeast corner of
Lot 6 of said Block 18; thence continuing soutl1 along the east
line of Lots 6, 5 and 4 to the southeast corner of Lot 4 in
said Block 18; thence west along the south line of said Lot 4
to the southwest corner of said Lot 4, which point is also the
southeast corner of Lot 9 in said Block 18; thence continuing
west along the south line of said Lot 9 to the southwest corner
of said Lot 9; thence continuing west to the southeast corner
of said Lot 4 in said Block 23; thence continuing west along
the south line of said Lot 4 in said Block 23 to the southwest
corner of said Lot 4 in said Block 23; tl1ence southwesterly on
a line to a point on the west line of said Block 23, which said
point lies 10 feet south of the northwest corner of Lot 10 in
said Block 23; thence continuing southwesterly on a line which
is a production of said southwesterly line a distance of 87.2
feet to a point on a curve to the right with a radius of ~5
feet; thence in a northwesterly direction on said curve to the
right, a distance of 90 feet + to a point which lies 180 feet
west of the west line of said Block 23; thence north and parallel
with the west line of said Blocks 23 and 15, a distance of ·
367 feet + to the True Foint of Beginning.