Source:Ordinance-1913-452
"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 'Valmont street,' and establishing the grade thereof." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1913, no. 452. Passed Dec. 9, 1913; approved Dec. 15, 1913. Ordinance Book 25, p. 496. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1913, appendix, pp. 260–261, Arlington Printing Co., Pittsburgh, 1913 (Google Books WngzAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223881; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1913).
No. 452
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 "Valmont street," and establishing the grade thereof.
Whereas, Louisa Haller, Frank W. Haller and Herbert L. May all of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, the owners of the property hereinafter described, have executed and delivered to the City of Pittsburgh, their certain Deed of Dedication, bearing date June 9th, 1913, now on file in the office of the Bureau of Surveys of said City, wherein they have conveyed said ground to said City for a public street or public highway and have 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 the said Deed of Dedication be and the same is hereby accepted, and the Bureau of Surveys 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 "Valmont street," the same being bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Begining [sic] on the northerly building line of Aylesboro avenue at a point distant 248.46 feet westwardly from the westerly building line of Murray avenue; thence N. 5 degrees 00 minutes W. 516.34 feet to a point on the southerly building line of Northumberland street; thence along the said southerly building line of Northumberland street S. 85 degrees 00 minutes W. 50 feet to a point; thence S. 5 degrees 00 minutes E. 512.46 feet to a point on the northerly building line of Aylesboro avenue; thence along the said northerly building line of Aylesboro avenue N. 89 degrees 26 minutes E. 50.15 feet to the place of beginning.
Section 3. The grade of said Valmont street, from Northumberland street to Aylesboro avenue, is hereby established as follows, to wit:
The grade of the east curb line of Valmont street, from Aylesboro avenue to Northumberland street, shall begin on the north curb line of Aylesboro avenue at an elevation of 401.52 feet (curb as set); thence falling at the rate of 3.825 feet for the distance of 539.61 feet to the south curb line of Northumberland street to an elevation of 380.88 feet (curb as set).
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 December 9, 1913.
Approved December 15, 1913.
Ordinance Book 25, page 496.
