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ORDINANCE N0. I �
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING TEAT THAT PORTION OF CAPPS STREET
BETWEEN THE EAST LINE OF SOUTH MAIN STREET AND THE WESTER-
LY LINE OF BRYAN AVENUE AND MORNINGSIDE DRIVE INTERSECTION
ON THE EAST BE ABANDONED, CLOSED AND VACATED, PROVIDING
FOR THE REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, AND
PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE BECOIE EFFECTIVE INRIv1EEDIATELY.
WHEREAS, it appearing to the City Council of the City of Fort
Worth, Texas, that heretofore on or about the 24th day of July, A. D. 1931,
the construction of a subway was completed under the tracks of the Missouri-
Kansas-Texas Railway Company near a point where Capps Street intersects said
railway tracks at grade; and,
WHEREAS, said underpass was found to be fully adequate to meet all
the requirements for pedestrian and vehicular traffic in that area; and,
WHEREAS, it was also found that it was dangerous for traffic to
use the grade-crossing over said railway lines at said point, and the City
Council, after such investigation, abandoned, closed and vacated that portion
of the street over said grade-crossing at the date aforementioned,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION I.
That the action of the City Council of the City of Fort Worth,
Texas, in closing vacating and abandoning that portion of Capps Street, lying
and being between the east line of South Main Street on the west and the
westerly line of Bryan Avenue and Morningside Drive intersection on the east
and being north of and adjacent to Block #2, South Park Heights Addition to
the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, as shown by the attached plat
marked Exhibit "A", be and the same is hereby adopted, confirmed and ratified.
SECTION II.
That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
SECTION III.
That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after the date of its passage.
APPROVED AS TO FCRM A14D LEGALITY:
CTTY ATMPNEY
I, Henry Keller, City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
do hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance is a correct copy
of Ordinance Noa 17!�Lpassed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, held in the Council Chamber on
Wednesday, the 27th day of September, A. D. 1933.
City Secretary of the City of
Fort Worth, Texas.
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