Source:Ordinance-1947-326
"An ordinance opening Fifty-five and a Half street from Camelia street to Celadine street and providing that the costs, damages, and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1947, no. 326. Passed Aug. 4, 1947; approved Aug. 8, 1947. Ordinance Book 55, p. 17. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the year 1947, appendix, pp. 297–298, City Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1947).
AN ORDINANCE—OPENING Fifty-five and a Half street from Camelia street to Celadine street and providing that the costs, damages, and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby.
The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. That Fifty-five and a Half street from Camelia street to Celadine street shall be and the same is hereby opened so that the street as opened shall lie between the following described lines:—
The westerly line shall begin on the southerly line of Camelia street at a point 7.35 feet east of the dividing line between Lots Nos. 93 and 94 in the Camelia Place Plan of record in the Recorder's Office of Allegheny County in Plan Book, Volume 10, page 164, said place of beginning being 292.65 feet west of the westerly line of Fifty-sixth street; thence shall extend northwardly perpendicular to the northerly line of Camelia street and parallel to the dividing line between the said Lots Nos. 93 and 94 and coinciding with the dividing line between Lots Nos. 124 and 125 in the said Plan of Lots for a distance of 220.0 feet to the southerly line of Celadine street.
The easterly line from Camelia street to a point 170.0 feet northwardly therefrom shall be parallel to and 40 feet east of the above described westerly line; thence shall offset westwardly 0.50 feet to a point; thence northwardly for a distance of 50 feet to Celadine street shall be parallel to and 39.50 feet east of the above described westerly line.
Section 2. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to cause said Fifty-five and a Half street from Camelia street to Celadine street to be opened in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of this Ordinance.
Section 3. The costs, damages, and expenses occasioned thereby and the benefits to pay the same shall be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania relating thereto and regulating the same.
Section 4. 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 August 4, 1947.
Approved August 8, 1947.
Ordinance Book 55, Page 17.