Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-10-29
An Ordinance

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Defining and fixing units into which
Main Street shall be divided for
the purpose of assessing the pre-
portionate cost of improving said
street with paving, curbing, and
guttering, against the property
AUDITING thereon.
Whereas, by an ordinance of Oeto-
Der 2. 1919, which ordered the I'm
provement of parts of First street,
Second street, Third street, Irvine
street, Lancaster avenue and Main
street, in the City of Richmond, by
paving carriage way with concrete
and asphalt, and by the construction
of concrete curbing and guttering, the
Board of Council of the City of Rich
mond, provided that upon the accept
ance of the work and the confirmation
| of the engineers estimate Of the
cost thereof, by the City Council, it
should by ordinance apportion the
cost of the work on each of the said
streets, less any part to be paid by
the city, equally among the owners of
the abutting property. on both sides
of the parts of each of said streets
so improved, according to the number
of AUDITING feet owned by them re-
Spectively, and should assess and levy
a local tax on the several lots or par
GELS of abutting property on each of
said streets, at rate per abutt1ng
foot. sufficient to product the part of
the cost of the Improvement, appor-
toned to each abutting lot or parcel
of property, on each of said streets,
/ and that there should be a lien upon
( such lots or parcels of real estate for
| the part Of the cost of said improve
ment so assessed thereon, which should
J take effect upon the publication of the
ordinance making the assessment and
/ levving the tax, and,
Whereas the part of Main street
ordered improved by said ordinance,
varies in width from approximately
80 feet at the intersection of Thur
man avenue with Main street, in a
gradual widening to approximately 80
/ feet at the intersection of Aspen av-
enue, from approximately 35 feet at
| said intersection of Aspen avenue,
gradually widening to approximately
40 feet at the western intersection Of
| Lancastr avenue; a width of approx
inately IS feet from the Eastern in
tersection of Lancaster avenue to the
Western intersection of Second street
q width of approximately 60 feet
from the Western intersection of
Second street to the Eastern intersec-
ton of First srteet a width of ap-
proximately As feet, from the East
ern intersection of First street to the
Western intersection of Collins street,
width of approximately 30 feet
/ II. 81 oT (NCI
Inns streets to the Western intersec-
ton of L. & N R. R. tracks on East
Main street, and an approximate av-
GRACE width of 35 feet from the L. &
IN r. r. tracks to the end of the or
dered Improvement, at the intersec-
ton of Estill avenue; and by reason
of the further fact that the nroperty
AUDITING Main street from Thurman
avenue to Lancaster avenue, and from
: Collins street to the l.. &, N. r. r
tracks, is almost exclusively residence
property, each lot or parcel Of which
has generally wide frontage on said
i1nnroven7ent, and that the property
between Lancaster avenue snd Col
Inns street. and between the l.. & N
r. r. tracks and Estil avenue is al
most exclusively business property
each lot Or parcel of which has mar
? row frontage on the said improve
ment. and by reason of the further
fact that all Of the Improvement or
all of the carriage way between Col
Inns street and Estill avenue. and be
Thurman avenue and Lancaster aven
5 ue is to be built upon five inch con
: crete base. and that part between
i, Lancaster avenue and Collins street
is to be built upon six inch concrete
base, and;
Whereas, it appears to the Boarc
, of Council, from the foregoing facts
that in order to make such corrections
as will do justice to all parties con-
cerned and to provide as fair and uri-
form rule of assessment as is prac-
ticable under TIE circumstances it is
necessary to divide the cost of the i'm
provement of Main street into seyera
, units of apportionment and assess
, lnent. instead of assessing same
equally against all of the property
AUDITING upon the. part of said street
which the ordinance of October 2
: 1919, ordered to be improved,
Now therefore, be it ordained. bv
the Board of Council of the City OF
Richmond KY, that for the. purpose
Of estimating, considering, deternln-
inc and assessing the cost of said I'M
tax against the property abutting
thereon for the payment Of said cos'
: of Improvement the following units
are hereby established
From the West line of Thurman
avenue to the East line of Aspen av-
enue.
!, I. prom the East line of Aspen av-
enue to the West line of Lancaster
avenue.
3--From the West line of Lancas-
fer avenue to the West line Of Second
: street.
4-From the West line of Second
street to the East line of First street
5-Frori the East line of First
: street. to the East line of Collins
/ street.
6-Froln the East line of Collins
1treet to the Western edge of the L
! & N railroad tracks