Source:Ordinance-1919-172
"An ordinance designating Drake way as the name of an unnamed twenty (20′) foot way, in the Tenth–Eleventh wards of the City of Pittsburgh as shown in Stanton Place Plan and W. H. Williams Plan of Lots, from Wellesley avenue to Springer way and establishing the grade thereof." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1919, no. 172. Passed June 19, 1919; approved June 12, 1919. Ordinance Book 30, p. 339. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1919, appendix, p. 140, Eureka Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1919; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_400c371b-597f-4aa8-af12-5f70a3241d13/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_495559a5-9d04-447f-b5c6-5bcb5b00c1f7/).
No. 172
AN ORDINANCE—Designating Drake way as the name of an unnamed twenty (20′) foot way, in the Tenth–Eleventh wards of the City of Pittsburgh as shown in Stanton Place Plan and W. H. Williams Plan of Lots, from Wellesley avenue to Springer way and establishing the grade thereof.
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 an unnamed twenty (20′) foot way in the Tenth–Eleventh wards of the City of Pittsburgh as shown in Stanton place plan and W. H. Williams Plan of Lots, from Wellesley avenue to Springer way be and the same is hereby named and designated as Drake way.
The grade of the westerly line of Drake way shall begin at the southerly curb of Wellesley avenue, at an elevation of 203.72 feet; thence rising at the rate of 1 per cent for a distance of 524.20 feet to a point of curve to an elevation of 208.96 feet; thence by a concave parabolic curve for a distance of 100 feet to a point of tangent to an elevation of 211.96 feet; thence rising at the rate of 5 per cent for a distance of 136.75 feet to the northerly line of Springer way to an elevation of 218.80 feet.
Section 2. That any Ordinance or part of Ordinance, conflicting with the provisions of this Ordinance, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same affects this Ordinance.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 June 9, 1919.
Approved June 12, 1919.
Ordinance Book 30, Page 339.
