Source:Ordinance-1922-75
"An ordinance extending and opening Ryolite way, in the Eleventh Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from the southerly line of Black street (as laid out in Mellon's Orchard Plan of Lots) to Hays street; establishing the grade thereof and providing that the cost, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from the properties benefited thereby." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1922, no. 75. Passed Mar. 27, 1922; approved Mar. 29, 1922. Ordinance Book 33, p. 294. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1922, appendix, p. 40, Kaufman Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Google Books -UEtAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223972; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1922).
No. 75
AN ORDINANCE—Extending and opening Ryolite way, in the Eleventh Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from the southerly line of Black street (as laid out in Mellon's Orchard Plan of Lots) to Hays street; establishing the grade thereof and providing that the cost, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from the 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 Ryolite way, in the Eleventh Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from the southerly line of Black street (as laid out in the Mellon's Orchard Plan of Lots) to Hays street, be opened to a width of 20 feet, by taking for public use for highway purposes all the following described property, to-wit:
Beginning at the intersection of the easterly line of Ryolite way with southerly line of Black street as laid out in the Mellon's Orchard Plan of Lots, recorded in the Recorder of Deeds' Office of Allegheny County in Plan Book Volume 11, Page 34; thence extending northwardly and being a prolongation of the present Ryolite way, being parallel with and 107.55 feet westwardly from the westerly line of St. Clair street for the distance of 393 feet to the southerly line of Hays street; thence deflecting to the left 90° 00′ 20″ and extending westwardly along the southerly line of Hays street for the distance of 20 feet to a point; thence deflecting to the left 89° 59′ 40″ and extending in a southerly direction for a distance of 393 feet to a point where the westerly line of Ryolite way intersects the southerly line of said Black street; thence deflecting to the left 90° 00′ 20″ and extending eastwardly along the southerly line of said Black street for a distance of 20 feet to the place of beginning.
Section 2. The grade of the easterly line shall begin at the northerly curb line of Black street at an elevation of 214.80 feet; thence rising at the rate of 0.92 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 355 feet to the southerly curb line of Hays street to an elevation of 218.07 feet.
Section 3. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to cause said Ryolite Way, from the southerly line of Black street (as laid out in the Mellon's Orchard Plan of Lots) to Hays street to be extended and opened, in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of this Ordinance.
Section 4. 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 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 March 27, 1922.
Approved March 29, 1922.
Ordinance Book 33, Page 294.
