04/01/1930 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Tuesday , =`'nr it lst. , 1930 . a. width of forty-eight (48' ) feet ie tareen -pro7.erty lines; the roadway of that part of said. Walnut Street extending southerly from tine south property line of Division Street shall be thirty (30' ) feet in width betA!een curb lines, seid roadway to be located symetrically about the center line of "°alnut, Street extending southerly from the south property line of Division Street with * width of sixty (601) feet between .property lines. 2. At the intersection of k"alnut Street with the tracks of the Grp -ad, Trunk Western Railraod Company and i.ri th the tracks of the New York Central Reilraod o , (Illinois Divisi on) the surface of said "alnut Street shall be depressed nine and ninety-five one -hundredths (9.951) feet below the average grade level of said street • at the ends of existing approach grades as now maintained; said d.epreseion, at the I lowest point, shall not be lower than elevation forty-eight sixty-six (48.66) as ex- -pressed in �'ity of mouth Bend datumthe vertical clearance shall be a minimum at Twleve (121* feet as measured between the surface of the street as fixed above, ttm and the bottom of the lbridge superstructure over said. street; the approach grade on said Walnut Street shall be ascending uniform grade extending hbrtherly from the I superstructure to the present south curb line of Huron Street and also an a scending uniform grade extending southerly from the superstructure to thepresent north I curb line of Ford Street • `the roadway of said ',`walnut Streot beneath the superstruct- ure shall be thirty (30' 1 feet in width between curb lines with curb line superstruct- ure supports only; said roadway to be located symetrica.11y about the center 11_ne of • I Walnut Street with a width of sixty (60'� feet between property lines i 3. At the intersection of Division Street with the track of the New Jersey, Indiana end Illinois kA ilroad Compemy and the track of the New York Central Railrcad Company's connecting track to the Michigan Central Railway, said tracks of both railredds being contiguous, the surface of said Division '*treet and the tracks of the said railroad companies shall be ra�.sed not more than three and thirty-one one hundredths (3; 3I' ) feet above the top of rail grade of the now exi sing New York j Central 4ailroed Company's cpnneetong track- to the TIVichigpn Central Railway as now maintaned at said crossing. 4ppmoach grades not to exceed three and one half (3.51) feet to each one hundred (1001.) feet shall be extended in an easterly and westerly direction f rom said crossing until the p re sent street Fgrade of said Division • Street has been inter sected. 4. At the intersection of Arnold I�'treet with -the tracks of the New York Central Rai lrosd Company (Main Line) the surface of said Arnold Street and the tracks of the said. railroad company shall be. raised not more than one and one-half (I�' feet above the ton of rail grade of the New York Central. Railroad Company's (Main Line) tracks as now maintained said crossing. Also at the intersection of Arnold ra.t Street with the tracks of the Ilew York Central kailroad Uompany (Illinois Division), the tra.eks of the Grand Trunk V°estern Railroad Company and the track of the Indiana Northern Railway Company, the surface of said Arnold Street any' the 'i'raeks of the said railroad companies shall not be changed. The Present roadway width between curb lines as now exists on said Arnold Street shall be continued and the present grade of se id roadway shall be adjusted to conform with changes in the track grades of the said railroad that hereafter be to this companies may made pursuant resolution. 5. At the int ersecti on' of Cherry Street with the tracks of the New York Central railroad Company a portion of the surface of said Cherry street shall be depressed to accomodate the construction of a pedestrian subway, the floor grade of which shall not be less then elevation fifty-f our fifty-nine (54.59) as expressed in City of Mouth Bend datum; the said pedestrian subway shall have an inside l"Tidth of not less than eight (S' ) feet and an inside height of not less than eight (81) feet. !� 6, Harris 6treet sh.Ul be closed to traffic across the tracks and ri�hts of way of The New York Central railroad Company t1linois Division) and the Grand runk Western Railroad Company. Traffic to be diverted over Huron street to Walnut Street. �. 7. ruron Street shall be improved between the east prapert3r line of Harris Street and toe crest property line of '"alnut,'�'treet by paving the roadway thereof with one of the types of modern city pavement and the cost thereof shall be considered as a pert of the general track elevation expense to be apportioned as hereinabove speci- I Pied. � J S. % o -n^ rt of the cost of the work embraced in this resolution shall i be approtionec. against St. -Joseph County, and ; Whereas, heretofore, to -:pit: 0n February I8th., 1930, there was filed with this Board a petition of approximately seventy-five resident freeholders of the Ci of South Bend, requesting this Board to enter into a con tract with the several rail- roads whose tracks will be affected by said gradeseparation project, and to agree with said r ilroads on a division of cost of said €-rade separption, on the basis of the City paying thirty-five (35) nercent of the total cost thereof, and said Railroads sixty-five (65) percent of the total cost thereof; Now therefore, be it further resolved that the cost of said project shall be fixed as provided by law, subject, however, to such modifications as to division of cost as may be agreed upon hereafter, in writing:, between this Board and the said sever' al R,,ilroad Companies, by contract ma.dn- puusuant to the petition of said resident freeholders so file, and the authority conferred upon this Board by �eetion 9 of Chapter 36 of the Acts of the Legislature of Jhe State of Indiana for the year 1923, . as amended by 6ection2 of Chapter 165 of the cts of the Legislature of said Mate for the yeer I927.