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AN ORDINANCE EXTENDING AND OPENING 29TH STREET SOUTH AT ITS
INTERSECTION OF THE PANHANDLE AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY
RIGHT OF WAY:; REQUESTING A GRADE CROSSING FOR PEDESTRIAN AND
VEHICULAR TRAFFIC; PROVIDING FOR USUAL AND CUSTOMARY WARNING
AND SAFETY DEVICES AT SUCH STREET INTERSECTIONS WITH RAILROAD
GRADE CROSSING; AUTHORIZING THE CITY SECRETARY TO PUBLISH THE
DESCRIPTIVE CAPTION OF THIS ORDINANCE AS PROVIDED BY LAW; DECLAR
lNG AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING THAT THE TERMS OF TEnS ORDINANCE
BECOME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON PASSAGE ON FIRST READING.
WHEREAS, public necessity and convenience and the protection of the health
and safety of the inhabitants of the City of Lubbock requires and make~ it necessar
that 29th Street be extended and opened South at its inter section with the Panhandle
and Santa Fe Railway Company right of way in the City of Lubbock as more parti-
cularly shown on the Official Map of said City on file in the City Engineerts Office
of the City of Lubbock; and,
WHEREAS.,. in order to extend and open said 29th Street extended South it is
necessary that a grade crossing be established over and across the right of way of
the Panh~ndle and Santa Fe Railway Company; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION. OF 'THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION I. THAT 29th Street be extended and opened South of its pres~nt
limits as more particularly shown on the Official Map of the City of Lubbock ·on fil
in the City Engineer• s Office of said City, to which Map reference is heremade for
a more particular description of. said street~ and said Map is made a part hereof
for such purpose as though fully copied herein.
SECTION 2. THAT the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company BE and is
hereby requested to forthwith establish a grade crossing to accommodate pedestria
and vehicular tr~ffic at the point and location o£ an extension and opening of 29th
Street South over and across the right of way of said Panhandle and Santa Fe Rail-
way Company at the point and location _of said 29th Street more particularly des-
cribed in Section 1 hereof and to provide in connection with said grade crossing~
the usual customary and necessary warning and safety devices protecting the prop-
erty and safety of the pedestrian and vehicular traffic over and across the grade
crossing here requested and ordered.
SECTION 3. THAT the City Secretary BE and she is hereby authorized and
directed to have published the descriptive caption hereof as provided by law.
SECTION 4. THAT public necessity and convenience to preserve the safetyl'
elfare and property of the citizens of Lubbock requires the immediate passage of
this Ordinance7 and there~y crea~es an emergency making it necessary that the
rule requiring an ordinance to be read on two separate occasions be suspended,
r and the same is hereby suspended and this Ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from and aft~r ~ts passage.
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AND IT IS SO ORDERED
Passed by Wlanimous vote of the City Commission this 26th day of
March 1 19 22._·
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