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Concrete Contractors, Inc. v. City of Arvada,
Colo.,
Defendants Concrete Contractors, Inc. (C.C.I.) and American Employer’s Insurance *172 Co. (the bonding company) appeal the judgment requiring C.C.I. to concrete line or pipe the Bayou Ditch, an irrigation ditch running through its property, or be subject to a $23,000 judgment, the amount of a performance and payment bond issued by the bonding company in favor of plaintiff City of Arvаda (the city). We reverse.
The pertinent facts are set forth in the priоr opinions cited above, and will not be repeated here.
I.
Defendants contend that the city’s resolution approving construction spеcifications prepared by the city engineer requiring all irrigation ditchеs to be piped was legally insufficient. We agree.
The Arvada City Charter § 5.7 specifies that “еvery act ... placing any burden upon or limiting the use of private proрerty, shall be by ordinance.” (emphasis supplied) Among the procedural requirements for adoption of an ordinance is the requirement that the city counсil hold a public hearing on the proposed ordinance. Arvada City Charter § 5.8.
It is not disputеd that application of the city engineer’s specification tо require C.C.I. to line or pipe the ditch places a burden upon or limits the use of private property.
Cf. Satter v. City of Littleton,
Under the circumstances here, the charter requirеs an ordinance and, contrary to the city’s argument, the charter requirеments for adoption of an ordinance were not complied with in fоrm or in substance. A resolution is insufficient and has no force or effect. Sinсe the specification involved here was not properly adоpted, the city had no power to require compliance with it or to condition issuance of a certificate of occupancy upon C.C.I. ⅛ promise to comply with that specification.
II.
Based on оur holding above, the city gave no consideration in exchange for C.C.I.⅛ promise to line or pipe the ditch and to obtain a performance and payment bond from the bonding company. An agreement not supрorted by consideration is invalid and unenforceable.
Ireland v. Jacobs,
In light of this determination, we need not address defendants’ further contention that C.C.I. entered into the agreement with the city under duress.
III.
The city contends that C.C.I. should be barred from asserting the invalidity of the agreement because of laches. As the trial court found, it was not until C.C.I. sought counsel, over two years after entering into the agreement and after the city had twice extended the time for performance, that C.C.I. first realized that there might be a legal reason why it was not оbligated to pipe or line the ditch.
Despite actions of the pаrties in reliance on the purportedly valid agreement, the city has failed to demonstrate that it has been prejudiced by defendants’ delay in asserting the invalidity of the agreement or that it has changed its position in such а manner as to render assertion of the invalidity inequitable. Therefore, the doctrine of laches will not be applied here.
See Board of County Commissioners v. Blanning,
The judgment is reversed, and the cause is remanded with directions for the trial court to dismiss the action.