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ORDINANCE N 0. 359 6
AN ORDINANCE EXTENDING AND OPENING CHICAGO AVENUE SOUTH AT ITS
INTERSECTION OF THE PANHANDlE AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY RIGHT OF WAY;
1 REQUESTING A GRADE CROSSING FOR PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICUlAR TRAFFIC; PRO-
VIDING FOR USUAL AND CUSTOMARY WARNING AND SAFETY DEVICES AT SUCH STREE
INTERSECTIONS WITH RAilROAD GRADE CROSSING; AUTHORIZING THE CITY SECRET
DEClARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING THAT THE TERMS OF THIS ORDINANCE
BECOME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON PASSA.GE ON FIRST RFADlliG.
WHERFAS, public necessity and convenience and the protection of the health
and safety .of the inhabitants of the City of Lubbock requires and makes it necessary
that Chicago Avenue be extended and opened South at its intersection with the Pan-1
I handle and Santa Fe Railway Company right of way in the City of Lubbock as more
particularly shown on the Official Map of said City on file in the City Engineer• s
Office of the City of Lubbock; and,
WHERFAS, in order to extend and open said Chicago Avenue extended South it is
necessary that a grade crossing be established over and across the right of way of
the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company; NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1. THAT Chicago Avenue be extended and opened South of its present
limits as more particularly shown on the ufficial Map of the City of Lubbock on file
in the City Engineer's Office of said City-, to which Map reference is here made 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 hereqy
requested to forthwith establish a grade crossing to accommodate pedestrian and
vehicular traffic at the point and location of an extension and opening of Chicago
Avenue South over and across the right of way of said Panhandle and Santa Fe Rail-
way Company at the point and location of said Chicago Avenue more particularly
described in Section 1 hereof a n d 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' Jaw.
SECTION 4. THAT public necessity and convenience to preserve the safety,
welfare and property of the citizens of Lubbock requires the immediate passage of thi
Ordinance, and thereby creates an emergency making it necessary that the rule re-
quiring an Ordinan ce to be read on two separate occasions be suspended, a nd the
same is hereby suspended a nd this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from
and after its pas sage.
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AND IT IS SO ORDERED
Passed by unanimous vote of the City Commission this 2Bta day of Saptaabar
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ATT~ST:
Lav Ia Lowe, C~~y-Treasurer ---_jr/~ -------------