HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1776 ORDINANCE M34
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING THAT AN APPLICATION BE PREPARED
AND FILED WITH THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FEDERAL EMGENCY
ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR A GRANT AND LOAN OF
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ($150,000.00) DOLLARS FOR
THE PURPOSE OF WIDENING, STRAIGHTENING, X=DING, PAVING
AND OTE RWISE IMPROVING VICKERY BOULEVARD IN THE CITY OF
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FRCV THE SOUTH LINE OF IESSIE STREET TO
THE WEST LINE OF JONES STREET, A TOTAL DISTANCE OF FORTY-
SEVEN HUNDRED (4,700) FEET.
WF , the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, after
considerable deliberation following many conferences and with the assistance
and co-operation of the City Plan Commission and various civic organizations,
entered into a very comprehensive improvement and construction program relative
to its streets and thoroughfares; and,
WHEREAS, the resident qualified taxpaying voters of the city, by
a vote of three thousand, six hundred and forty-eight (3,648) to five hundred
and seventy-three (573), authorized the issuance of Two Million (#&,OGA,960.40)
Dollars worth of general street improvement bonds; and,
WEEREAS, One Million, Five Hundred Thousand ($1,500,000.00) Dollars
worth of said bonds, being Series #56, have heretofore been issued and there
are now Five Hundred Thousand (0500,000.00) Dollars worth of said bonds unissued;
and,
WHEREAS, two applications have heretofore been made for grants and
loans in the total sum of Two Hundred and Four Thousand, Seven Hundred
($204,700.00) Dollars, for the purpose of constructing oEerpasses over the
tracks of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company and the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande Railway Company, and bonds out of the above described series have been
offered to secure said grants and loans; and,
WFOREAS, it is now deemed wise and expedient that Vickery boulevard
be widened, straightened, extended, and otherwise improved in a northwesterly
direction twenty-three hundred (2,300) feet across certain lots and Blocks of
the city, at a width of eighty (80) feet to a connection with Rio Grande Avenue,
together with the paving thirty-six (36) feet wide from the intersection of
the projected Vickery Boulevard westerly to to Jones Street a distance of twenty-
four hundred (2,400) feet, making a total distance of forty-seven hundred (4,700)
feet, NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT CRDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT Yi°OIiTS,
TMIAS:
SECTION I.
That an application be promptly prepared and filed with the Adminis-
trator of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works for a grant and
loan in the total aum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($150,000.00) Dollars
for the purpose of widening, straightening, extending, paving and otherwise im-
proving Vickery Boulevard, from the south line of Bessie Street to the west
line of Jones Street, a total distance of forty-seven hundred (4,700) feet,
according to plans and specifications now on file in the office of the City
Engineer.
SECTION II.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the
date of its passage.
APPROPED AS TO FOAM AND LEGALITY:
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