Presenter
Presented by Mrs. Smith
Title
Resolution providing for the acceptance by the City of Pittsburgh from Joseph and Catherine O'Toole and J.M. O'Toole, Jr., Executor of the Estate of certain property in the 15th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, for public purpose as an addition to Schenley Park at no cost to the City of Pittsburgh.
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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance and Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh are hereby authorized to accept a deed from Joseph and Catherine O'Toole and J.M. O'Toole Jr., Executor of the Estate, conveying certain property in the 15th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, designated as Block 54-K, Lot 86 in the Deed Registry Office of Allegheny County for public purposes as an addition to Schenley Park, in fee simple and at no cost to the City of Pittsburgh.
Property Described as Follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT or piece of ground situate in the 15th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being known and numbered as Lots No. 250, 251, 252, and part of 256 in the William Flinn's Revised Greenfield Avenue Pan as recorded in the Recorder's Office of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in Plan Block Volume 13, pages 152 and 153 bounded and described as follows:
PART 1: BEGINNING at a point on the Northeast corner of Lydia Street and Neeb Street said point being the Southwest corner of Lot No. 250 in said Plan of lots; thence continuing Eastward along the Northern line of Neeb Street a distance of 90.0 feet to a point on dividing line between Lot No. 252 and 253 in said Plan of lots; thence along said Plan lot line Northward a distance of 90.0 feet to a point; thence Westward parallel with Neeb Street along the rear lot lines of Plan Lots 252, 251, and 250 for a distance of 90.0 feet to a point on the Eastern line of Lydia Street; thence Southward along said Easterly line a distance of 90.0 feet to a point of the PLACE OF BEGINNING.
PART 2: BEGINNING at a point on the Western line of Coleman Street at the dividing line between Plan Lot 255 and 256 in said Plan, said point being 90.0 feet from the Northwest corner of Neeb Street and Coleman Street; thence Westwardly along said dividing line of Lot No. 256 and the rear lot lines of Lots 253, 254, and 255 being parallel with Neeb Street for a distance of 90.0 feet to a point; thence Northward along the rear lot line of Lot 256 for a distance of 10.0 feet to a point; thence traversing through Lot No. 256 still parallel with Neeb Street a distance of 90.0 feet to a point on Coleman Street; thence Southwardly along the Western line of Coleman Street a distance of 10.0 feet to a point at the PLACE OF BEGINNING.
Containing a total of 9,000 square feet of area for Part 1 & 2. Refer to Attachment "A" for location map.
BEING designated as Block 54-K, Lot No. 86 in the Deed Registry Office of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
BEING the same property which the City of Pittsburgh granted and conveyed to Joseph M. O'Toole and Catherine O'Toole his wife by deed dated August 7, 1982 and recorded in the Recorders Office of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book Volume 6521 page 260.
ALSO BEING the same property conveyed by the Treasurer of the City of Pittsburgh to the City Of Pittsburgh by Deed dated September 10, 1965 and recorded in the Civil Family Division of Allegheny County in Deed Book Volume 10, page 109. Treasurer Sale No. 580 of 1965.
Section 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the said acceptance shall be subject to the following term and conditions:
(a) All state and local transfer taxes, if any, shall be paid by the City of Pittsburgh
(b) All property closing charges shall be paid by the City of Pittsburgh.