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Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 34-S, in the area south of Oregon Avenue and west of Christopher Columbus Boulevard, by striking from the City Plan and abandoning a portion of a right-of-way for drainage purposes reserved within the lines of former Bigler Street and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes in an alternate location laying north of former Bigler Street, and authorizing acceptance of the grant of such right-of-way to the City, all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Pursuant to Section 11-404 of The Philadelphia Code, the Board of Surveyors of the Department of Streets is hereby authorized to revise the lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 34-S by:
(a) Striking from the City Plan and abandoning a portion of a certain sixty feet wide right-of-way for drainage purposes reserved within the lines of former Bigler Street which extends westwardly from a point on the westerly side of Christopher Columbus Boulevard, approximately eight-hundred sixty feet south of Oregon Avenue, the said portion being stricken and abandoned extending from a point approximately eighty-two feet west of said Christopher Columbus Boulevard to a point approximately five-hundred sixty-two feet further westwardly therefrom.
(b) Placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes extending westwardly of a width of approximately twenty-seven feet from a point on the said westerly side of Christopher Columbus Boulevard, at the northerly side of the said existing right-of-way for drainage purposes being revised by authority of Section 1(a) herein, to the proposed easterly terminus of the said existing right-of-way for drainage purposes, thence extending northwardly, westwardly, and southwestwardly of a width of sixty feet to the proposed westerly terminus of the said existing right-of-way for drainage purposes.
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