HomeMy WebLinkAbout4424ORDINANCE N0. 4424.
i. AN ORDINANCE ANNEXING A CERTAIN PORTION
OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, TO
STREET IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 475
OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
WE ERE AS, persons claiming to be a majority in value of the owners of real
property within the territory hereinafter described, which property adjoins
-Rtr"t. Improvement District Rio,, 475 of _the City of, Little Rock, Arkansas, a
{ duly created and existing improvement district in said city, desire to be
added to and included in said improvement district and have filed a petition
with the City Council of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, praying that said
territory be annexed to said improvement district, and have designated the
nature of the improvement to be undertaken and have described the territory
to be annexed; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council has directed the City Clerk to publish for two
weeks in some newspaper issued and having a bona fide general circulation in
Pulaski County, a notice calling upon the property owners within said territory
to appear before this council on March 11, 1929 and show cause for or against
such annexation; and,
WHEREAS, such notice has been duly published, and at the time fixed in
said notice for the hearing to determine whether those signing said petition
constitute the necessary majority in value of the owners of real property, said
hearing w ^:s continued and postponed to April 8; 1929, at which time this council
denied said petition, and held that it did not contain a majority in value;
whereupon, suit was brought by lsuidowners in the Chancery Court of Pulaski
County, Arkansas to review said findings and action of this council in so
,* Ai Lion; and, whereas, an order and decree of said court was
rendered ordering and directing this council to proceed with the organization
of said annex by passing a proper ordinance finding and declaring that a
majority in value of the owners of real property in the territory sought to be
annexed have signed said petition, and annexing and making said territory a part of
said district; and,
. WHEREAS, this council has heard all persons who desire to be heard upon the
question of whether the signers of said petition constitute such a majority.
NOW, THEREFORE, Beit ordained by the City Council of the City of Little
Rock, Arkansas;
Section 1. That this council has ascertained that the signers of the
petition to annex the property hereinafter described to Street Improvement District
No. 475 of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, do constitute a majority in value
of the owners of real property within the territory sought to be annexed; that
said petition for the annexation of said territory is indue form and properly
signed by a majority of the owners of real property as required by law.
Section 2. That Lots 1, 2, j, 10, 11, and 12, in Bloch 10i Lots`4 to- -���
inclusive, in Block 11; Lots 4 to 9, inclusive, in Block 18; Lots 1, 2, j, 10,
11 and 12, in Block 19; Lots 4 to 9, inclusive, in Block 25; Lots 1, 2, 3, 10,
11, and 12, in Block 24; All in Newton's Addition to the Town of Pulaski Heights
(now annexed to the City of Little Rock, but name of Addition not changed), be
and the same is hereby added to and annexed to Street Improvement District No. 475
of the City of Little Rock,Arkansas, and the commissioners of said district shall
proceed to make the improvements petitioned for by grading and paving Harrison
Street from Prospect Avenue to OU" Street, in such manner and with such materials
as the commissioners of said district shall determine to be for the best interests
of the district, the improvements to be of the same general character as that in
the original District No. 475.
Section j. That said annexed territory shall be known as Annex No. 1
to Street Improvement District No. 475 of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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