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HomeMy WebLinkAbout023 - 12/27/1956 - ANNEXING PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE WESTERN HEIGHTS FIRST ANNEXATION r ORDINANCE NO. 2.3 , 1956 ACCEPTING AND APPROMG THAT OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE FIRST WESTERN HEIGHTS ANNEXATION TO THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, AND AUTHORIZING THE ANNEXATION OF ALL THE TERRITORY EMBRACED IN SAID PLAT TO THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, THE SAME TO BE MADE A PART OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AND TO BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE LIMITS AND JURISDIC- TION THEREOF, PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN ARTICLE 113 CHAPTER 139, COLORADO REVISED STATUTES 1953. WHEREAS, heretofore a written petition has been presented to the Council of the City of Fort Collins an substantial compliance with the provisions of Article 11, Chapter 1393 Colorado Revised Statuses 1953 by fourteen (14) individuals and the Western Heights Land Corporation, purporting to be 71 43% of the qualified electors in the area of the territory involved and further purporting to be the owners of 65 21% of the area of the land embraced in what is known as the First Western Heights Annexation to the City of Fort Collins, wherein and whereby said petitioners and applicants petitioned the City of Fort Collins for the annexing of all the territory embraced in what is known as the First Western Heights Annexation to the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, comprising the lands shown in the plat thereof attached to said petition and more particularly described as hereafter set forth, and WHEREAS, said petition was accepted by the Council of the City of Fort Collins by resolution passed and adopted on the 8th day of November, A. D. 1956, and WHEREAS, notice for hearing on the 13th day of December, A. D. 1956, on an ordinance approving the annexation of said territory and including the same within the limits and jurisdiction of the City of Fort Collins was duly published as provided by law, and WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Fort Collins has found that the peti- tion and the documents attached thereto meet the requirements of Article 113 Chapter 1393 Colorado Revised Statutes 19533 and WHEREAS, no proceedings for an election to determine the question of annexation have been -initiated by written counter-petition as provided by law and no objection to annexation having been made BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUnCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS Section 1. That after due consideration of the petition for annexation that the petition for the annexation of all the territory in what is kneyn and described as the First Western Heights Annexation to the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, as shown by the plat thereof annexed to said petition and which is more particularly described as follows, to-wit A portion of the NE4 of the SE4 of Section 15, Township 7 North, Range 69 Best of the 6th P M., Larimer County, Colorado, contained within boundary lines beginning at a poet on the East line of said Section 15, and 15 00 feet South of the NE corner of the N2 of the N2 of the;S2 of the NE4 of the SE4 of said Section, and running thence West 280 feet, parallel to the North line of the N2 of the N2 of the S2 of the NE4 of the SE4 of said Section, / thence South 150 58 feet, more or less, parallel to the East line of said l/ Section to a point on the North line of the S2 of the N2 of the of the NE4 of the SE4 of said Section, thence West 760 feet along the North-Line of the S2 of the N2 of the S2 of the NE4 of the SE4 of said Section, to the NW corner of Lot 5 in the Western Heights Subdivision, thence South 110 feet to the SW corner of Lot 5 in said Western Heights Subdivision, thence Southwesterly 61.85 feet, more or less, in a direct line, to the NW corner of Lot 23 in said Western Heights Subdivision, thence South 110 feet, to the SW corner of Lot 23 in said Western Heights Subdivision, thence Easterly, in a direct line, 615 feet, to the NE corner of Lot 39 in said Western Heights Subdivision, thence South 51 16 feet, to the SW corner of Lot 15 in said Western Heights Subdivision, thence Easterly 110 feet, in a direct line, to the SE corner of Lot 15 in said Western Heights Subdivision, thence South 1414 6 feet parallel to the East line of the SE4 of said Section 15, thence Easterly 330 feet, in a direct line, to a point on the East line of the SE4 of said Section which is 526 34 feet South of the point of beginning and, thence North 526 34 feet, to the point of beginning be accepted and approved and that the said territory be annexed and made- a part of the City of Fort Collins and be included within the limits and jurisdiction thereof and that the City Clerk be and he is authorized and directed to prepare certified copies of this ordinance, to each of which shall be attached a plat of said First Western Heights Annexation to the City of Fort Collins, Colorado and shall file one copy thereof in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Larimer and another copy thereof in the office of the Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, together with a certified copy of the said petition and another cop of saidrpetition and approiang ordinance with the Secretary of the State of Colorado Section 2 That in accepting and approving the plat of the First Western Heights Annexation to the City of Fort Collins, the City of Fort Collins does not assume obligations respecting the construction of water mains, sewer lines, gas mains, electric light lines or other services or utilities with respect to the ser- vice of said addition, except as may be required and provided by the owners of property within the limits of said addition at their own expense and except as may be initiated by the owners of said property within the limits of said additinn -2- f J in compliance with the terms and provisions of Ordinance No 7, 1921, relating to local and public improvements, as amended Introduced, considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 13th day of December, A D 1956, and to be presented for final passage on .December 27, A D 1956 Mayor ATTEST uiyuerc Passed and adopted on final reading this 27th day of December, A D 1956 Mayor ATTEST: La 'y 1, ert raw