The City shall have the power to develop or improve, or cause to be developed or improved, any and all public streets, sidewalks, alleys, highways and other public ways within the corporate limits of the City by laying out, opening, narrowing, widening, straightening, extending, lighting, or establishing building lines along the same; by purchasing, condemning, and taking property therefor; by filling, grading, raising, lowering, paving, repaving or repairing the same in a permanent manner, and by constructing, reconstructing, altering, repairing, or realigning curbs, gutters, drains, sidewalks, culverts, and other appurtenances and incidentals in connection with such development or improvement herein authorized, or any combination or part thereof. The cost of such development or improvement may be paid partly or entirely by assessments levied as a lien against the properties abutting thereon and against the owners thereof, and such assessments may be levied in any amount and under any procedure not prohibited by the Laws of the State of Texas; provided, that no assessment shall be made against such land or owners in excess of the enhancement in value of such property occasioned by such improvement.
If improvements be ordered constructed in any part of any such area used or occupied by the tracks or facilities of any railway or public utility, the City Council shall have the power to assess the whole cost of improvements in such area and the added costs of improvements in areas adjacent thereto made necessary by such use or occupancy against such railways or public utility, and shall have power by ordinance to provide for the enforcement of such assessment.