2377 ORD CLOSING HEARING GIVEN TO REAL AND TRUE OWNERS OF PROPERTY ABUTTING ON CERTAIN STREET IN COP

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Section 2. There being no further protests or testimony for or against or in reference to said improvements, benefits or pro- ceedings, said hearing granted to the real and true owners of pro- perties abutting upon said street within the limits and units herein defined, and to all persons, firms, corporations and estates, owning or claiming same or any interest therein, shall be, and the same is hereby closed, and all protests and objections, whether specifically mentioned or not, shall be, and the same are hereby overruled and denied. Section 3. The City Council hereby finds and determines upon the evidence heard in reference to each and every parcel of property abutting upon the street and units hereinafter set out that the en- hancement in value to accrue to said property and the real and true owners thereof by virtue of the construction of said improvements in said portions of said street will be in excess of the costs of said improvements made and as herein assessed against said abutting properties and the real and true owners thereof; and finds that the apportionment of the costs of said improvements and the assess- ments hereinafter made are just and equitable and produce substan- tial equality, considering the benefits received and the burdens im- posed thereby, and are in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas and the Charter of the City of Paris; and further finds that all proceedings and contracts heretofore had with reference to said irriprovements are in all respects, regular, proper and vali d, and that all prerequisites to the fixing of the assessment liens against said abutting properties, as hereinafter described, and the personal liability of the real and true owners thereof, whether named or correctly named or not, have been in all things regularly had and performed in compliance with the law and the proceedings of said City Council. Section 4. In pursuance of said ordinance duly enacted by said City Council autlD rizing and ordering the improvement of said street and units, including the said portions of said street and units herein- below set out, which ordinance was passed, as aforesaid, on thel4th day of February, 1977, and in pursuance of said proceedings hereto- fore had and enacted by said City Council in reference to said im- provements and by virtue of the powers vested in said City with re- spect to said street improvements by the laws of the State of Texas, with particular reference to Article 1105b, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended, and the Charter of the City of Paris, there shall be, and is hereby levied, assessed and taxed against the respective parcels of property hereinafter described and abutting upon said street and units hereinafter set out and within the limits below defined and against the real and true owners of such property, whether such real and true owners be named, or correctly named, or not, the several sums of money hereinbelow mentioned and itemized opposite the description of the respective parcels of said property, the description of such property, the number of front feet of each and the amount assessed against the same and the real and true owners thereof, and where the amount so assessed against the corner pro- perties has been computed by adjusting the frontage, such amount so assessed shall constitute a lien against the entire property abutting the paving actually constr`ucted and not merely against the amount of frontage used as an adjusted basis for the assessment, and the names of the apparent owners thereof, all as corrected and adjusted by said City Council, being as follows, to-wit: