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HomeMy WebLinkAbout014 - 06/07/1924 - PROVIDING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE ANNEXATION OF ADDITIONS TO THE CITY (EMERGENCY ORDINANCE) ORDINANCE NO. /J�, 1924, BEING AN MIERGENCY ORDINANCE PROVIDING RULES AND REGUTATIONS FOP. THE A120MATION OF ADDITIONS TO T177 CITY OF FORT COLLIM , AM SUPPIM1ENTARY TO TIC PROVISIONS OF SECTION 9213 OF THE COPTPILED LAWS OF 1921 ON PIR1EXATIOTTS AND 2.117?DATORY OF SAID SECTION 9213. WBEREAS, The provisions of Sectioa 9213 of the Compiled Laws of Colorado of 1921, provide procedure in the matter of annexing additions to cities and towns, and for the purpose of supplementing said provisions in the matter of :raking such additions, and amendatory of said statute: BE IT OPMAIT.?ED BY TIM CITY COUNCIL OF TBE CITY OF FORT COT_LI?dS: Section 1. That hereafter whenever any territory shall be laid out and surveyed as a proposed addition to the City of Fort Collins, that no map or plat of said addition shall be filed for record with the Clerk and Recorder of Larimer County until such contemplated adlition shall have been submitted to the City Council of the City of Fort Collins and approved by the City Council; the application for annexation shall be signed by the owners of two-thirds of the area embodied therein. Such application shall not be granted or approved until the electric wiring, apparatus, and work in connection with all buildings situate in or on the territory proposed to be annexed, shall have been inspected by the Commissioner of Safety or his deputy, and the fee for such inspection as provided by ordinance shall have been paid to the City of Fort Collins, and a certificate shall have been issued by the Commissioner of Safety or his deputy, which shall certify that the electric wiring, apparatus, and work is in accordance with the ordinances and established rules of the City of Fort Collins respecting electric wiring and apparatus. The application shall not be granted by the City of Fort Collins until the streets of the proposed addition shall have been brought to the grade established by law, and all necessary bridges and culverts have been constructed, inspected and approved by the Commissioner of Works or his deputy, and the cost of bringing the streets to the grade shall have been paid by the applicant, as well as the cost of constructing the necessary bridges and culverts, in accordance with the ordinances of the City of Fort Collins and under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of works or his deputy, and that the streets of the proposed addition shall have been brought to the lawful grade; and all necessary bridges and culverts have been constructed, inspected and approved by the Commissioner of works or his deputy. Section 2. whenever any territory shall be laid out and surveyed as a proposed addition to the City of Fort Collins, it shall not be necessary that the proposed streets and alleys be it conformity as to courses and angles with the streets and alleys of the adjoining porti are of the City of Fort Collins, provided, hove ter, the courses and angles of the proposed streets and alleys shall be approved by two-thirds of the membors of the City Council. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to plat or lay out into streets, alleys, blocks and lots an# land 'hereafter annsaed and offer the same for sale either publicly or privately, unless platted strictly in conformity with the requirements of this ordinance, and a plat thereof accepted by the City Council as herein provided. Section. 4. All such lands and additions to the City of Fort Collins hereafter sought to be laid out in lots, blocks, streets and alleys, shall be surveyed by, or under the direction of a licensed engineer, and the map of the addition shall have the affidavit of the engineer as to the correctness of the survey and plat. Section 5. All surveys of proposed plate or additions shall define the corners of the blocks by means of iron or steel stakes one-half O inch or larger and not less than eighteen (18) inches in length, which shall be embedded in a concrete block at least twenty-four (24� inches in depth and four (4) to six (6) inches in diameter. The stake shall protrude approximately one-q;.arter (4) of an inch above the top of the concrete which shall be smoothed off neatly and shall be marked with a cross or punch mark to define the exact corner of the block. The concrete shall not be cov^red but shall be so placed as to be approximately flush with the surface of the ground and shall consist of one (1) part of Portland cement to not more than three (3) parts of aggregate. At the corners of each and every lot, iron or steel pins not less -2- than eighteen (18) .:aches in length and one-half (J) inch in diameter shall be driven flush with the ground. In case it is impossible to set a stake or a block corner due to sor.-B obstacle, its absence shall be indicated on the plat. Section 6. WHAT SHALL 3E IYCLUDED IN UAP OF PROPOSED ADDITION. Upon the completion of the survey, there shall be filed with the Co=nissioruer of Works, or his deputy, a map, the dimensions of which shall be two (2) feet by three (3) feet, and the scale of which shall be indicated but shall not be smaller than one (1) inch equals one hundred (100) feet. On the said ^lap there shall be shown all distances and angles and other data which may serve permanently to establish and preserve the survey. In addition to the above data, the plat moat show the affidavit of the licensed engineer; the owners' acknowledgment, and dedication of streets and alleys; the names of the streets, the number of the lots and blocks with dimensions, with an arrow indidatirg north, which, when possible, shell be toward the top of the map. In the lower left hand comer, a space eight (8) inches square shall be left for the certification of the City Engineer and the certificate of the City Clerk. Section 7. The scale of profile shall be approved by the Commissioner of Works or his deputy before presentation to the City Council for formal acceptance. When the map and profile shall be certified by the City Engineer as to the accuracy of the surveys and maps and their corfomity with the requirements of this ordinance and the statute, they shall be presented to the City Council for formal acceptance. When so accepted, they shall have the resolution of ac eptance of the City Council attached thereto, and duly attested by the City Clerk. The original maps and profiles shall be filed with the City Clerk and be open to inspection at all reasonable hours to property owners and pthere interested in such maps and profiles. A duplicate of such map shall be filed with the Clerk and Recorder of Larimer County as required by law, duly certified by the City Clerk, pursuant to resolution of the City Council attached thereto. V �! Section B. It shall be unlawful for house/to be e e1' cted nearer than twenty (20) feet to the property line, facing the street, and ten (10) feet from the property line of the adjoining street, and the sub-dividing of lots so that houses may be built facing at right angles to the original lot 1a -3- hereby prohibited, provi d Clause does no Epp to the iffy (56) feet of the lot and ovided further, that the restrictions contained in this a ection shall only apply to additicne accepted under the rules end regulations and provisions of this ordinance. Section 9. Any person or persons violating any of tre provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction be fined $, a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars for each offense. Section 10. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 11. Every application for annexation of an addition shall contain this clause to be signed by all the parties, whether the applicant owns the entire tract so sought to be annexed, or in connection with his associates: "The applicant for himself end his associates covenants and agrees for tbhnselves and their grantees to and with the City of Fort Collins that upon the acceptance of the application, that it is expressly agreed and understood that the applicants and their grantees expressly covenant and agree that they will be bound by and will observe and obey all ordinances in force and effect at the time of the acceptance of said annexation of addition respecting the installation of` local public improvements." Section 12. In the opinion of the City Council an emergency exists for the preservation of the public health, peace and safety and this ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and publication, under and by virtue of the authority contained in Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter. Introduced, read at length and adopted by the unanimous vote of all members of the City Councib this 7th day of June, A. D. 1924. C�ne- Safety an x-Officio or ATTESTS /� !2?�cGa77/ yCit Clerk. STATE OF COLOWO ) SS. COUNTY OF LARIM ) I, A. J. ROSENOW, City .'Clerk of the City of Fort Collins do hereby certify and declare that the foregoing ordinance, consisting of twelve (12) sections was duly proposed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 7th day of June, A. D. 1924, and was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Express-Courier, a daily newspaper and the official newspaper of the City of Fort Collins by the unanimous vote of all nambers of the Council, as an emergency ordinance, In accordance with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IP of the City Charter, and thereafter, on to-wit: the zO l ay of June, A. D. 1924, said Ordinance No. /Z-/ Was duly published in the Fort Collins Express-Courier, a daily newspaper publ ished in Fort Collins, Colorrdo. IN WITNESS WM.EOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the se�,1 of said City, this /6�fday of June, A. D. 1924. City Clerk.