Source:Ordinance-1915-391/content

No. 391

AN ORDINANCE—Widening Freeland way, in the Eighteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from Montooth street to Gearing avenue, changing the name thereof to Lafferty avenue, fixing the width and position of the roadway, establishing the grade thereof and providing that the cost, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby.

Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the City of Pittsburgh, in Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, That Freeland way, in the Eighteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from Montooth street to Gearing avenue, be widened to a width of fifty feet so that the street as widened shall lie between the street lines hereinafter described.

The following survey line is hereby established as a basis for locating the new street lines, viz. Beginning at the concrete monument at the intersection of the westerly five (5) foot line of Montooth street and the southerly (5) foot line of Lafferty avenue; thence deflecting toward the east 83 degrees 27 minutes from the westerly five (5) foot line of Montooth street and in an easterly direction for the distance of 177.37 feet to the westerly building line of Gearing avenue.

The northerly line shall be parallel to and at a perpendicular distance of 44.69 feet northwardly from the above described survey line.

The southerly line shall be parallel to and at a perpendicular distance of 5.31 feet southwardly from the above described survey line for the distance of 105.60 feet eastwardly from the easterly line of Montooth street; thence deflecting toward the south 6 degrees 31 minutes 50 seconds and along the present southerly line of Freeland way for the distance of 38.64 feet to the westerly line of Gearing avenue.

Section 2. The name of Freeland way from Montooth street to Gearing avenue shall be and the same is hereby changed to Lafferty avenue.

Section 3. The roadway shall have a uniform width of thirty feet and the northerly line of the same shall be parallel to and at the perpendicular distance of 10 feet southwardly from the above described northerly line of the street.

Section 4. The grade of the northerly curb line shall begin on the easterly curb line of Montooth street at an elevation of 418.65 feet; thence by a concave parabolic curve for a distance of 40 feet to a point of tangent to an elevation of 420.87 feet; thence rising at the rate of 9.54 feet per 100 feet for a distance of 102.78 feet to the westerly building line of Gearing avenue to an elevation of 430.68 feet; thence rising at the rate of 5.00 feet per 100 feet for a distance of 10.08 feet to the westerly curb line of Gearing avenue to an elevation of 431.18 feet.

Section 5. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to cause said Freeland way, from Montooth street to Gearing avenue, to be widened, in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of this ordinance.

Section 6. The cost, damages and expenses caused thereby, and the benefits to pay the same, shall be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania relating thereto and regulating the same.

Section 7. That any Ordinance or part of Ordinance, conflicting with the provisions of this Ordinance, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same affects this Ordinance.

Passed December 14, 1915.

Approved December 21, 1915.

Ordinance Book 27, page 270.