HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1771 AN CRDINANCE PROVIDING THAT AN .APPLICATION BE PREPARED AND
FILED WITH THE ATMIrTISTRATOR OF TEE FEDERAL MdER Y
AININISTRATION OF PUBLIC WaRKS FOR A GRANT AND LOAN OF
EIGHTY-= THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED 48111700.00) DOLLARS
FOR THE PMPOSE OF PAYING ONE-HALF OF THE COST OF THE CON-
STRUCTION OF THE BALLINGER STREET OVERPASS ACROSS THE 'TRACKS
OF THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY AND THE FORT WORTH
AND RIO (RANDE RAILWAY COMPANY.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, after
considerable deliberation following many conferences and with the assistance
and coaoperation of the City Plan Commission and various civic organizations,
entered into a very comprehensive improvement and construction program rela-
tive to its streets and thoroughfares, and included within such program was
a plan of eliminating grade crossings over the tracks of the Texas and Pacific
Railway Company and the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway Company; 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�tbree (573), authorized the issuance of Two Million ($2,000,000.00)
Dollars worth of general street improvement bonds; and,
WHEREAS, 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 ($500,000.00) Dollars worth of said bonds un-
issued; and,
WHEREAS, it is now imperative that a viaduct be constructed over
the tracks of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company and the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande Railway Company on Ballinger Street as soon as practicable, in
order to eliminate the grade crossings over said railway tracks and thereTY
protecting pedestrian and vehicular traffic going between the business dis-
trict and the populous residential area south thereof, NOW, THER]UPORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
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SEOTICN I.
That an application be promptly prepared and filed with the
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
for a grant and loan in the total sum of Eighty-gone Thousand, Seven
NutorwA_ &I,#700.00) Dollars for the purpose of paying ones-half of the
cost, said amount being thus' 07 dmtetrdttft
the Ballinger Street overpass across the tracks of the Texas and Pacific
Railway Company and the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway Company in ac-
cordance with the plans and specifications heretofore approved and adopt-o
ad by the City Engineer of the City of Fort Worth, and which plans and
specifications are on file in his office.
SECTION II.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
the date of its passage.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND IMLITY:
City Attorney
ORDINANCE
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Date
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City Secretary