Source:Ordinance-1923-254/content

From Pittsburgh Streets

No. 254

AN ORDINANCE—Widening Cherry way, in the Second Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from Sixth avenue to Liberty avenue and providing that the costs, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby and changing the name thereof to "William Penn Place".

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 Cherry way in the Second Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from Sixth avenue to Liberty avenue shall be and the same is hereby widened so that the street as widened shall lie between the street lines hereinafter described, to-wit:

The westerly line shall coincide with the present westerly line of Cherry way, from Sixth avenue to a point 25.50 feet south of the present southwesterly corner of Liberty avenue and Cherry way; thence deflecting to the left 46° 16′ 40″ and in a northerly direction for a distance of 17.63 feet to a point on the southerly line of Liberty avenue distant 18.43 feet westwardly from the present southwesterly corner of Liberty avenue and Cherry way.

The easterly line from Sixth avenue to Liberty avenue shall be parallel to and at a perpendicular distance of 50.0 feet eastwardly from the present westerly line of Cherry way.

Section 2. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to cause said Cherry way, in the Second Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from Sixth avenue to Liberty avenue to be widened in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of this ordinance.

Section 3. The costs, 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 4. The Name of Cherry way, from Sixth avenue to Liberty avenue is hereby changed to "William Penn Place."

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 That any Ordinance or part of Ordinance conflicting with the provisions of this Ordinance, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same affects this Ordinance.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 May 28, 1923.

Approved June 1, 1923.

Orinance [sic] Book 34, Page 406.