Source:Ordinance-1925-260
"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 Card lane, and establishing the grade thereon." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1925, no. 260. Passed June 23, 1925; approved June 27, 1925. Ordinance Book 36, p. 370. Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, July 2, 1925, p. 19 (Newspapers.com 88696003), and July 3, p. 17 (Newspapers.com 88696059).
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 Card lane and establishing the grade thereon.
Whereas, John E. Born and Mary E. Born, his wife, owners of property hereinafter described have executed and delivered to the City of Pittsburgh their certain deed of dedication bearing date of June 12, 1925, now on file in the Office of the Bureau of Engineering of said City wherein they have conveyed said ground to said City for public street or public highway purposes and have released said City from any liabilities 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 the 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 on record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for the County of Allegheny.
Section 2. The ground 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 Card lane, the same being bounded and described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a point on the easterly line of S. Lang avenue, said point being south 32° 50′ 20″ west 314.78 feet from the southeast corner of Penn avenue and S. Lang avenue; thence extending south 64° 39′ 30″ east for a distance of 369.78 feet to the westerly line of Osage line, 20.0 feet wide; thence extending south 29° 11′ 00″ west along the said westerly line of Osage lane for a distance of 28.06 feet to a point; thence extending north 64° 39′ 30″ west for a distance of 371.58 feet to the east line of S. Lang avenue; thence extending north 32° 50′ 20″ east along the east line of S. Lang avenue for a distance of 28.24 feet to the place of beginning.
The grade of the southerly curb line shall begin on the westerly line of Osage lane at an elevation of 290.0 feet; thence falling at the rate of 3.34 feet per 100 feet for a distance of 114.64 feet to a point of curve at an elevation of 286.17 feet; thence by a concave parabolic curve for a distance of [50.0?] feet to a point of tangent at an elevation of 285.47 feet; thence rising at the rate of 1.0 foot per 100 feet for the distance of 208.71 feet to the east curb line of S. Lang avenue at an elevation of 287.54 feet.
Section 3. 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 in Council June 22, 1925.
Approved June 27, 1925.
W. A. MAGEE, Mayor.
Recorded in Ordinance Book, Volume 36, page 370.