05/18/1953 Board of Public Works Minutes

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16 'i TRAFFIC DEPARTMt NT: A letter from the State Highway Commission, under date of May 8, 1953, to which was attached copies of the agreement to be entered into in connection with the in- a stallation of a traffic signal at the intersection of Michigan and Tutt Streets, was next read and the agreement examined, approved and signed. r The truck traffic situation on West Indiana Avenue was next reviewed by the Board, and a verbal report of findings, covering the past week,was made by Traffic Engineer, E. H. Miller. It was pointed out that the Brodbeck Trucking Company,, Inc., was `in- dicated by the survey to be the greatest offender. The possibility of enforcing a weight limit statute or ordinance, as well as the possibility of re -zoning of the area from industrial to residential received further consideration. One of the Petitioning home -owners present, asked that full time speed limit enforcement be placed in. effect. Chief of Police, Richard J. Gillen, being present, stated that an officer could not be spared to render full time service in this limited area -at this time. The petitioners present were assured by the Board of the matter having the Boardfs serious consideration and study. STREET DEPARTMENT: Street Commissioner, H. M. Tomlinson, being present, the Board authorized and directed that he proceed to oil Lathrop Avenue from Portage Avenue to the sanitary land fill, and also apply oil on Olive Street, from Lathrop south, where dust -laying is necessary. The Board deemed this special oiling operation necessary because refuse trucks now use these streets to excess. RESOLUTTION ADOPTING FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL RESOLUTION NO. 2733 - 1952 After hearing all persons interested who appeared and the Clerk of the Board of Public Works and Safety having proofs of publication of the notices to property owners and the same having been found sufficient, therefore BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that the Primary or Preliminary Assessment Roll adopted by the Board on the 4th day of May, 1953, for the improvement of ALLEY BETWEEN IRONWOOD DRIVE AND TWENTY THIRD STREET be and the same is in all things confirmed. R. S. Andrysiak G. P. Ziegler I. A. Harwich Board of Public Works & S e y Ward H. Crothers Clerk of the Boar FINAL CONFIRMATION OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION i" RESOLUTION NOS. 2749, 2750-1 2752s 2753 For the improvement of MISHAWAKA AVENUE from the east line of Twyckenham Drive to the west line of Greenlawn Avenue by constructing a Class C Type 4A Pavement, under Improvement Resolution No. 2749, 1953 AND For the improvement of SOUTH CHICAGO STREET from the north line of Western Avenue to the south line of Washington Street by constructing a Class C Pavement under Improve ment Resolution No. 275 - 1953 AND For the improvement of NORTH CHICAGO STREET from the south line of Washington Stree to the south line of Linden Avenue by constructing a Class C Pavement under Improvement Resolution No. 2752 - 1953 AND For the improvement of NORTH ILLINOIS STREET from the south line of Washington Street to the south line of Linden Avenue by constucting a Class C Pavement under Improvement Resolution No. 2753, 1953- No written remonstrance or remonstrances against said improvements bearing the signatures of fifty-one (51) per cent or more of the resident property owners on said streets to be improved, having been filed within the ten (10) day period following the date and time of the hearings on said improvements, therefore BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that Improvement Resolution Nos. 2749, 2751, 2752 and 2753, duly adopted by this Board on April 13, 1953, and first confirmed on May 11, 1953, be and the same is in all things finally confirmed and the improvements are hereby ordered made. Ward H. Crothers Clerk of the Board. R. S. Andrysiak G. P. Ziegler I. A. Hurwich Board o uo is Wor7s afety 0 • • • 0 • n U