Source:Ordinance-1920-382
"An ordinance accepting the dedication of certain property in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same Olla way and establishing the grade thereon." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1920, no. 382. Passed Oct. 11, 1920; approved Oct. 19, 1920. Ordinance Book 31, p. 612. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1920, appendix, p. 293, Eureka Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1920).
No. 382
AN ORDINANCE—Accepting the dedication of certain property in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same Olla way and establishing the grade thereon.
Whereas, The Pittsburgh Homes Construction Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation, the owner of the property hereinafter described, has executed and delivered to the City of Pittsburgh its certain deed of dedication bearing date of July 15, 1920, now on file in the office of the Bureau of Engineering of said City wherein it has conveyed said ground to said City for public way or public highway purposes and has released said City from any liability for damages for or by reason of the physical grading of said public highway to the grade hereinafter established; therefore,
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 said Deed of Dedication, be and the same is hereby accepted and the Bureau of Engineering is hereby authorized and directed to place the same of record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for the County of Allegheny.
Section 2. The ground so as aforesaid conveyed to said City for public highway purposes shall be and the same is hereby appropriated and opened as a public highway in accordance with the terms of said deed of dedication and shall be known as Olla way, the same being bounded and described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a point on the northerly line of Bartlett street, said point being distant North 88° 44′ 51″ East, 118.11 feet from the intersection of the northerly line of Bartlett street and the easterly line of Wightman street; thence North 1° 11′ 46″ East, 322.87 feet to a point on the southerly line of Darlington road; said point being distant South 89° 59′ 04″ East, 118.02 feet from the southeast corner of Wightman street; thence along said southerly line of Darlington road South 89° 59′ 04″ East, 16.00 feet to a point; thence South 1° 11′ 46″ West, 137.255 feet to a point; thence South 88° 48′ 14″ East, 12.00 feet to a point; thence South 1° 11′ 46″ West, 36.00 feet to a point; thence North 88° 48′ 14″ West, 12.00 feet to a point; thence South 1° 11′ 46″ West, 149.255 feet to a point on the northerly line of Bartlett street; thence along the northerly line of Bartlett street South 88° 44′ 51″ West, 16.01 feet to the place of beginning.
Section 3. The grade of said Olla way, from Bartlett street to Darlington road, is hereby established as follows, to-wit:
The grade of the West property line shall begin at a point on the north curb line of Bartlett street at an elevation of 394.97 feet; thence rising at the rate of 5.0 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 10.00 feet to the north line of Bartlett street to an elevation of 395.47 feet; thence rising at the rate of 9.00 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 106.39 feet to a point of curve to an elevation of 405.04 feet; thence by a convex parabolic curve for the distance of 80.00 feet to a point of tangent to an elevation of 405.04 feet; thence falling at the rate of 9.00 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 136.48 feet to the south line of Darlington road to an elevation of 392.76 feet; thence falling at the rate of 5 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 10.00 feet to the south curb line of Darlington road to an elevation of 293.26 feet.
Section 4. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to enter upon, take possession of and appropriate the said described ground for a public highway, in conformity with the provisions of this Ordinance.
Section 5. 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 October 11, 1920.
Approved October 19, 1920.
Ordinance Book 31, page 612.
