Ratifying Resolution No. 5 for Separation of Grades of Certain Railroads and Certain Streets in City of South Bend

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ORDINANCE NO. O u;�—1 BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana: SECTION 1. That whereas on the 3rd day of January, 1930, the Board of PublicWakksa of the City of South Bend adopted Resolution No. 5 for the separation of grades of certain railroads as shown herein where the same intersect certain streets in said City; and Whereas, after notice and hearing as provided by law, the said Board of Public Works did on the lst day of April, 1930, modify said Resolution to read as follows: RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF TIM CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA: That it is deemed necessary that the grade crossing of the tracks of The New York Central Railroad Company, formerly the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, at the inter- section of said tracks with Division Street, walnut Street, and Cherry Street, in the City of South Bend, Indiana, be altered by elevating said tracks at said intersections. Also, the grade crossing of the tracks of the Grand Trunk western Railroad Company and the tracks of The New York Central Railroad Company (Illinois Division) at the intersection of said tracks with ,Walnut Street, in the City of South Bend, Indiana, be altered by depressing said street under said tracks at their present elevation. Also, the grade crossing of the tracks of The New York Central Railroad Company (Main Line) at the intersection of said tracks with Arnold Street, in the City of South Bend, Indiana, be altered by raising said tracks at said intersection. Also, the grade crossing of the track of the New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Railroad Company and the track of The New York Central Railroad Company's connecting track to the Michigan Central Rail- way at the ihtersection of said tracks with Division Street, in the City of South Bend, Indiana, be altered by raising said tracks at said intersection. The change in grade of said inter- secting streets, the amount in feet of the vertical clearance at each intersection as measured between the surface of each of such streets as proposed by such new depressed grade, and the bottom of the superstructure over the same together with proposed roadway widths beneath said superstructure shall be as follows, to -wit: (1) At the intersection of Division Street and Walnut Street with the tracks of The New York Central Railroad Company, the surfaces of said Division Street and said Walnut Street shall be• depressed nine and seventy -six one - hundredths (9.761) feet below the average grade level of said streets at the end of