Source:Ordinance-1924-3

From Pittsburgh Streets

"An ordinance approving the 'Belhurst Gardens' Plan of Lots in the Twenty-eighth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out by the Royal Realty Company, accepting the dedication of Belhurst avenue, Selina way, Chartiers avenue, Eyre way, Ladley way, Merle street, Nero way, Pinney way, Suter street, Vedas way, Warfle street, Wind Gap avenue and Zela way as shown thereon for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same and establishing the grades thereon." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1924, no. 3. Passed Jan. 21, 1924; approved Jan. 23, 1924. Ordinance Book 35, p. 186. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the year 1924, appendix, p. 2, Kaufman Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1924).

No. 3

AN ORDINANCE—Approving the "Belhurst Gardens" Plan of Lots in the Twenty-eighth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, laid out by the Royal Realty Company, accepting the dedication of Belhurst avenue, Selina way, Chartiers avenue, Eyre way, Ladley way, Merle street, Nero way, Pinney way, Suter street, Vedas way, Warfle street, Wind Gap avenue and Zela way as shown thereon for public use for highway purposes, opening and naming the same and establishing the grades thereon.

Whereas, The Royal Realty Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, the owner of certain property in the Twenty-eighth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh laid out in a plan of lots called "Belhurst Gardens" have located certain avenues, streets and ways thereon and executed a deed of dedication on said plan of all the ground covered by said avenues, streets and ways to the said City of Pittsburgh for public use for highway purposes and have released the said City from any liabilities for damages occasioned by the physical grading of the said public highways to the grades 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 the "Belhurst Gardens" Plan of lots situated in the Twenty-eighth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh laid out by the Royal Realty Company, December 1923 be and the same is hereby approved and Belhurst avenue, Celina way, Chartiers avenue, Eyre way, Ladley way, Merle street, Nero way, Pinney way, Suter street, Vedas way, Warfle street, Wind Gap avenue and Zela way as located and dedicated in the said plan are hereby accepted.

Section 2. The streets as aforesaid dedicated to said City for public highway purposes shall be and the same are hereby appropriated and opened as public highways and named Belhurst avenue, Celina way, Chartiers avenue, Eyre way, Ladley way, Merle street, Nero way, Pinney way, Suter street, Vedas way, Warfle street, Wind Gap avenue and Zela way.

Section 3. The grades of Belhurst avenue, Celina way, Chartiers avenue, Eyre way, Ladley way, Merle street, Nero way, Pinney way, Suter street, Vedas way, Warfle street, Wind Gap avenue and Zela way laid out and dedicated in the "Belhurst Gardens" Plan of Lots are hereby established as described in Ordinance No. 500 approved January 4th, 1924 and recorded in Ordinance Book Vol. 35, Page 91.

Section 4. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to enter upon take possession of and appropriate the said Belsurst [sic] avenue, Celina way, Chartiers avenue, Eyre way, Ladley way, Merle street, Nero way, Pinney way, Suter street, Vedas way, Warfle street, Wind Gap avenue and Zela way for public highways 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 January 21, 1924.

Approved January 23, 1924.

Ordinance Book 35, Page 186.