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AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING THAT AN APPLICATION BE PREPARED AND
FILED WITH THE AIMINISTRATOR OF THE FELERAL ENi GRWCY
ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR A GRANT AND LOAN OF
SEVENTY--SIX THOUSAND ($76,000.00) DOLLARS TO SECURE ADDI-
TIONAL RIGHT OF WAY ON THE EAST ROSEDALE PROJECT FROM SOUTH
MAIN STREET TO RENNER AVENUE IN ORDER THAT THE STATE HICJIWAY
CONUISSION OF TEAS AND THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS OF THE
DEPARTMHAT OF AGRICULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES MAY PROCEED
WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAY NO. 34 OVER SAID PROJECT.
WHEREAS, the City Plan Commission, after considerable delibera-
tion in connection with a comprehensive program to widen, extend and im-
prove streets and thoroughfares, and particularly the main traffic arter-
ies in said city, and in co-operation with the City Council and various
civic organizations, designated East Rosedale and West Rosedale Projects
as the main east and west arterial thoroughfare; and,
WHEREAS, on or about the 24th day of November, A. D. 1925, the
resident qualified taxpaying voters of the City of Fort Worth authorized
the issuance of One Million, Four Hundred Thousand ($1,400,000.00) Dollars
for the purpose of constructing, improving and extending its system of
streets and thoroughfares by constructing, improving and extending a new
main arterial street and thoroughfare running north and south and a new
main arterial street and thoroughfare extending east and west through said
city, including in such permanent improvement grade separation, bridges,
drainage and the purchase of right of way; and,
WHEREAS, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($550,000.00) Dollars
worth of said bonds, and being Series #51, have been issued out of the
original issue of One Million, Four Hundred Thousand ($1,400,000.00) Dol-
lars and there is now left in said original issue Eight Hundred and Fifty
Thousand ($850,000.00) Dollars worth of said bonds subject to be issued for
the purposes hereinbefore set forth; and,
WHEREAS, the State Highway Commission of the State of Texas and
the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture of the United
States of America are desirous of constructing State Highway No. 34 over
that portion of the East Rosedale Project in.the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
extending from Renner Avenue to South Main Street; and,
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WHEREAS, in the construction of said highway along the East Rose
dale Project it will be necessary for the City of Fort Worth to acquire addi-
tional right of way on said street; and,
WHEREAS, it has been estimated that such additional right of way
will cost Seventy-six Thousand ($76,000.00) Dollars, NOW, THEF,EFOBSs
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORM,
TMUS:
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 sum of Seventy=-six Thousand ($76,000.00) Dollars for the
purpose of acquiring such additional right of way on the East Rosedale Project,
from the west line of Renner Avenue to the east line of South Main Street, a
distahce of seven thousand and seventy-five (7,075) feet, said project being
more particularly described as follows:
Begtuning on East Rosedale Street at South Main Street;
Thence east following Rosedale Street a distance of 1618
feet to a point east of Louisiana Avenue;
Thence in a southeasterly direction across the northeast
corner of Block 5, Evans South Addition, a distance of 500
feet to White Street, at Missouri Avenue;
Thence east on White Street a distance of 2300 feet to
Fabens Street;
Thence in a southeasterly direction across Block H, W. H.
Bolts Subdivision and across Block 14, Vickery's Addition, and
across Block 12, Vickeryts Addition, a distance of 1000 feet
to Oleander Street just west of the I. & G. N. R. R.;
Thence east on Oleander Street a distance of 1700 feet to
Renner Avenue,
in order that the construction and improvement of State Highway No. 34 on
said thoroughfare by the State Highway Commission of the State of Texas and
the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture of the United
States of America may proceed without delay.
SECTION II.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
the date of its passage.
APPROVED AS TO FORD AND LEGALITY:
Oity Attorney
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