Source:Ordinance-1924-477
"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 Munhall road and establishing the grade thereon." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1924, no. 477. Passed Nov. 24, 1924; approved Nov. 26, 1924. Ordinance Book 36, p. 27. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1924, appendix, pp. 346–348, Kaufman Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1924).
No. 477
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 Munhall road and establishing the grade thereon.
Whereas, Latoof Naffah, Lymia Naffah, his wife, Robert J. Coyle, Jr., Elizabeth D. Coyle, his wife, Charles B. Shapiro, Herman Kamin, Bessie Kamin, his wife, Joseph Mazer, C. A. Rook, Jr., Hilda W. Rook, his wife, A. Hirsch and Pearl Hirsch, his wife, owners of the property hereinafter described, have executed and delivered to the City of Pittsburgh their certain Deed of Dedication bearing date of August 7, 1924 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 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 Munhall road, the same being bounded and described as follows, to-wit:
The easterly line shall begin at a point on the southerly line of Beacon street (said point being distant south 83° 30′ 00″ west 488.94 feet from the intersection of the southerly line of Beacon street with the westerly line of Murray avenue); thence south 6° 30′ 00″ east for the distance of 238.43 feet to a point of curve; thence by the arc of a circle deflecting to the right having a radius of 110.0 feet and a central angle of 97° 08′ 00″ for the distance of 186.48 feet to a point of tangent; thence by the tangent of said curve north 89° 22′ 00″ west for the distance of 41.12 feet to the line dividing properties now or late of Maggie E. Munhall and Charles B. Shapiro et al; thence north 1° 13′ 00″ east along said property line for the distance of 30.0 feet to a point; thence south 89° 22′ 00″ east for the distance of 23.83 feet to a point of curve; thence by the arc of a circle deflecting to the left having a radius of 95.0 feet and a central angle of 97° 08′ 00″ for the distance of 161.05 feet to a point of tangent; thence by the tangent of said curve north 6° 30′ 00″ west for the distance of 221.43 feet to the southerly line of Beacon street; thence north 83° 30′ 00″ east along the southerly line of Beacon street for the distance of 30.0 feet to the place of beginning.
Also beginning at a point on the northerly line produced of the Schenley Heights Plan of Lots recorded in the Recorder's Office of Allegheny County in Plan Book Volume 20 pages 102–103 (said point being on the line dividing the properties now or late of Maggie E. Munhall and Robert J. Coyle, Jr., distant south 89° 22′ 00″ east 600.03 feet from the easterly line of Wightman street); thence north 89° 22′ 00″ west for the distance of 41.49 feet to a point of curve; thence by the arc of a circle deflecting to the left having a radius of 130.10 feet and a central angle of 25° 00′ 00″ for the distance of 56.77 feet to a point of reverse curve; thence by the arc of a circle deflecting to the right having a radius of 30.0 feet and a central angle of 230° 00′ 00″ for the distance of 120.43 feet to a point of reverse curve; thence by the arc of a circle delfecting to the left having a radius of 130.10 feet and a central angle of 25° 00′ 00″ for the distance of 56.77 feet to a point of tangent; thence by the tangent of said curve south 89° 22′ 00″ east for the distance of 41.79 feet to the line dividing properties now or late of Maggie E. Munhall and Robert J. Coyle, Jr.; thence south 1° 13′ 00″ west along said dividing line for the distance of 30.0 feet to the place of beginning.
Section 3. The grade of the west and north curb lines shall begin on the south curb line of Beacon street at an elevation of 428.80 feet (curb as set); thence rising at the rate of 5.0 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 16.0 feet to the south line of Beacon street to an elevation of 429.60 feet; thence rising at the rate of 9.0 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 94.0 feet to a point of curve to an elevation of 438.06 feet; thence by a convex parabolic curve for the distance of 100.0 feet to a point of tangent to an elevation of 443.31 feet; thence rising at the rate of 1.5 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 100.0 feet to a point of curve to an elevation of 444.81 feet; thence by a concave parabolic curve for the distance of 100 feet to a point of tangent to an elevation of 449.56 feet; thence rising at the rate of 8.0 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 105.88 feet to a point of curve to an elevation of 458.03 feet; thence by a convex parabolic curve for the distance of 50.0 feet to a point of tangent to an elevation of 461.03 feet; thence rising at the rate of 4.0 feet per 100 feet for the distance of 65.70 feet to a point of curve to an elevation of 463.66 feet; thence to the center of a convex parabolic curve for the distance of 20.0 feet to an elevation of 464.06 feet.
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 November 24, 1924.
Approved November 26, 1924.
Ordinance Book 36, Page 27.
See also
- Source:Ordinance-1924-475 and Source:Ordinance-1924-476, passed at the same time as this ordinance
