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File #: 2004-0896    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 12/7/2004 In control: Committee on Public Works & Environmental Services
On agenda: Final action: 12/14/2004
Enactment date: 12/14/2004 Enactment #: 614
Effective date: 12/15/2004    
Title: Resolution vacating Ellsworth Avenue at S.Highland Avenue in the 7th Ward, 8th Council District, of the City of Pittsburgh.
Indexes: VACATING A STREET
Attachments: 1. 301.doc
Presenter
Presented by Mr. Ravenstahl

Title
Resolution vacating Ellsworth Avenue at S.Highland Avenue in the 7th Ward, 8th Council District, of the City of Pittsburgh.

Body
WHEREAS, it appears by the petition and affidavit on file in the Office of the City Clerk that the owners of all the property fronting or abutting on the line of Ellsworth Avenue in the 7th Ward, 8th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh, have petitioned the council of the City of Pittsburgh to enact a resolution for the vacation of same, and

WHEREAS, said petition contains inter-alia, an indemnification of the city from any claims and from the payment of any damages whatsoever resulting to any properties owned by the petitioners or by any persons whatsoever, abutting or non-abutting, for or by reason of said vacation; therefore

Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. Part of the original section of Ellsworth Avenue to be vacated.

Parcel 1
Beginning at a point on the southerly side of relocated Ellsworth Avenue, said point being located South 70 degrees 33 minutes West, a distance of 411.83 feet from the intersection of the southerly line of the relocated Ellsworth Avenue and the westerly line of South Highland Avenue; thence along the southerly line of the original Ellsworth Avenue, South 52 degrees 05 minutes West a distance of 1.62 feet to a point on the reputed northerly line of property now or formerly of Norfolk Southern Railroad; thence along reputed northerly line of property now or formerly of Norfolk Southern Railroad, South 74 degrees 16 minutes West a distance of 132.00 to a point on the northerly line of Ellsworth Avenue; thence along the northerly line of the original Ellsworth Avenue, North 52 degrees 05 minutes East a distance of 131.89 feet to a point at the intersection of the relocated Ellsworth Avenue and the original Ellsworth Avenue, thence along the dividing line between relocated Ellsworth Avenue and...

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