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File #: 2011-1973    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 7/26/2011 In control: Committee on Public Works
On agenda: Final action: 8/1/2011
Enactment date: 8/1/2011 Enactment #: 545
Effective date: 8/8/2011    
Title: Resolution vacating a portion of Sassafras Way/Alley between 29th and 30th Streets in the 6th Ward, 7th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh.
Indexes: VACATING A STREET
Attachments: 1. 2011-1973.doc

Title
Resolution vacating a portion of Sassafras Way/Alley between 29th and 30th Streets in the 6th Ward, 7th 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 Sassafras Way/Alley in the 6th Ward, 7th 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 and 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. That vacating a portion of Sassafras Way/Alley is as described:

All that certain lot or parcel of land situate in the 6th Ward, City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, more particularly bounded and described as follows:

Situate in the 6th Ward, City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, being the same alley in the Springfield Farm Plan of the Denny Estate known as Sassafras Alley recorded in Allegheny Plan Book Volume 6, Page 180.

Beginning at the southeast corner of Liberty Avenue and 29th Street, said corner adjusted 5.0' feet by Vacation Ordinance Book Volume 53, Page 367, dated September 22, 1944, thence; South 40° 39' 18" East along and parallel to the original line of lot 1 in the aforementioned plan 174.0' feet to the point of beginning at the adjusted (by vacation) Northeast corner of Sassafras Alley and 29th Street, thence South 40° 39' 18" East a distance of 24.0'feet to the southerly edge of the 24' foot right of way of Sassafras Alley, thence North 49° 20' 42" East a distance of 245.0' feet along said right of way line to a point on ...

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