HomeMy WebLinkAbout009 - 08/19/1909 - VACATING CERTAIN STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS AND CERTAIN ALLEYS AND GRANTING TO UNION PACIFIC RAILR k-B N ORDINA^TCE VACATING CERTAIN STRF,.ETS A711) PARTS
OF STRr^,.ETS ANT CE.RTA.IiT A7,EYS IN THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS,
COLORADO) ANTD GRA71TING TO UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COILPAITY
THE: RIGHT TO LAY, ILAkINTAIN AT`TD OPERATE. A D0TTILE TRACK
STA'JDARD GAUGE RAILROAD ITT RIVERSIDES. AVE.N;TTE A3TD JE.FFEIJSO T
STREET IN SAID CITY OF FORT COT,LINS, FRO11 THr CITY LI11IT S
TO TiE NORTH4*JrSTRRLY ;INr OF LINCOLTT AVENUE, TO CROSS
LINCOLN AVENUE k"TD LINDEN STREET WITH SUCH TRACKS AS HAY
BE "?CESSARI FOR THE OPERATIONS OF SAID COMPANTY, AND TO
CONSTRUCT A DOUBLE TRACK STANDARD GAUGE RAILROAD ALONTG
COLLEGE AVENTUE,BRTWEEN MAPLE STREET AND THE, SOUTH LINE OF
BLOCK 24, TOGET-:D-,R WIT'Gi SID]r TRACKS, SWITCHES, ETC:
BE IT ORDAINFM) BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS,
COLORADO:
Section 1. That all that part of Pine street in the City
of Fort Collins, extending Northeasterly from Jefferson Street
to the right of way of the Colorado & Southern Railway Company,
be and the same is hereby abandoned and vacated as a public
street .
Section 2. That all that part of Chestnut street in the
City of Fort Collins, extending from Jefferson street northeaster-
ly to the intersection of Willow street, be and the same is hereby
abandoned and vacated.
Section 3. That all alleys lying in or adjacent to Blocks
61 71 89 9, and 10 in the City of Fort Collins be and the same
are hereby abandoned and vacated.
Section 4. That the southerly part of Lincoln Avenue, lying
southerly of a line drawn parallel with the southeasterly side of
Block' 9 in the City of Fort Collins, and a distance of 70 feet
therefrom, and westerly of the right of way of The Colorado &
Southern Railway Company, be and the same is hereby abandoned and
vacated as a public street.
Section 5. That that part of Riverside Avenue and Jefferson
Street 40 feet wide, extending southeasterly from a line drawn
parallel to the southeasterly line of Block 9, in the cite of Fort
Collins, and a distance of 70 feet therefrom, slang the southwest-
erly line of Lots 8, 99 109 11 and 12, in Block 10, in the City
of Fort Collins, to Block "G", in said City, be and the sane is
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hereby abandoned and vacated as a public street .
Section 5. That a strip 30 feet in width from off the north-
easterly side of Jefferson street , extending from the northwest-
erly line of Lim oln Avenue along the Southwesterly line of Block
9, across Chestnut Street, and along the southwesterly line of
Block 8 in the City of Fort Collins, to the southeasterly line of
Linden street, be and the same is hereby vacated and. abandoned as
a public street.
Section 7. That a stria 30 feet in width from off the
northeasterly line of Jefferson street, extending from the
nort7a rly line of Linden Street, along the southwesterly line
of Block 7, across .Pine street, and extending along the south-
westerly line of Block 61 to an intersection with the east lire
of College Avenue , be and the same is hereby abandoned and va-
cated as a public street .
Section 8. There is hereby granted to Union Pacific Rail-
road Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, the
right to lay, construct, maintain and operate a double track
standard gauge railroad on the northerly side of Riverside
Avenue in the City of Fort Collins, from the intersection of
said Riverside Avenue with the easterly boundary line of said
City, opposite Block 195 in said City , extendinI7 thence north-
westerly over and alone Riverside avenue 'ito Jefferson street ;
thence over Jefferson street to the north line of Lincoln Avenue;
produced, including the ri;*ht to extend the sane over such part
of ?Mountain avenue as intersects Riverside avenue, provided that
said Union Pacific Railroad Company may 13y, construct, maintain
and operate its said tracks over all. or any part of the described
distance , and 7r ovided further that said double track standard
gauge railroad shall be built upon the northerly 30 feet of
Riverside Avenue and Jefferson Street.,./
Section 9. There is hereby granted to Union Pacific Rail-
road Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns , the
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right to lay, constrict , maintain and operate such main and
side tracks as may be convenient or necessary to the operation
of the terminal facilities of the said railroad in the City of
Fort Collins, across that part of Lincoln Avenue lying between
the right of way of The Colorado & Southern Railway Company at
Willow street and a line parallel to and 30 feet southerly from
the northerly line of Jefferson street; and the further right
to lay, construct, maintain and operate such main and side
tracks as may be either convenient or necessary to the operation
of the terminal facilities of the said Railroad in Fort Collins,
across that part of Linden street lying between the intersection
of Linden street with Willow street in said city, and a line
drawn parallel to and 30 feet southerly from the northerly line
of Jefferson street therein.
Section 10. There is hereby granted to the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, a Corporation, its successors and assigns, the
right to lay, construct, maintain and operate a double track
standard gauge railroad along College Avenue , in the City of
Fort Collins, from its intersection with Jefferson and Maple
streets in said City, over, across and along Cherry Street, in
said City to the south line of Block 24 therein, together with
the right to construot, operate and maintain over, along and
across Cherry Street, between said College Avenue and the right
of way of the Colorado & Southern Railroad Company, such other
tracks, side tracks, spurs and switches as may be either con-
venient or necessary to the operation of said railroad in Fort
Collins.
Section 11. There is hereby granted to Union Pacific Rail-
road Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, the
right to construct, erect, maintain and operate, in connection
with the tracks herein authorized., all necessary sidetracks,
spars, culverts, siphons, telegraph and telephone poles, signs,
signal towers and stands, and other equipanent necessary for the
operation of said tracks .
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Section 12.- This ordinance sha U take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
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Amendment offered by Alder:1an = mings to
Ordinance N0.9, Series 1909
Relating to the vacation of certain parts of
Riverside Ave and Jefferson Street etc. P
The Union Pacific Railroad Company shall forever indemnify and
save harmless the City from and against all liability for damages
occasioned to abutting property owners, or others by reason of the
vacation of the several streets and parts of streets herein ordered.
Which amendment was lost upon roll call
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Strike out the <<rords ° To Jefferson street; thence over Jefferson
Street to the ;north line of Llno.oln Avenue, produced inol-ading the
right to extend the sane ovor such part of "lowntain Avenue as
intersects Riverside Avemacn . Cwwenoing in eight line of section
Fight of ordinance rand oub8ti_tute the following in lieu thereof
6 to the solltheaaterly line of the ally in lat S Block 10
a.+w
Also .strike out the :vords ^Jefferson Street C In last line Of
said section eight.
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Section M The foreefoir.; grants, rights of quay and privhlegea,
and also th"1 vacation of .:ll strect9 herein provided for which
shall result in the reversion to said Union Pacific Railroad Corapany
of :streets or par ts oa str"ts are made expressly subject to the
following con? .itions rxd 1i. citations:
FIRST: Said Union Pacific Railroad Colr,?�W'w shu2l construct
and operate a line or. lines OXrailway along surd acr•esu the :xaovo
mentioned streets tonne,-tins Yrith the existing Union Pacific
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Railroad Go^! erly's system, within three years from t;a8 cube of
t;-:� raa3q; o of this or,,Unarae-, and have the ar-ene in operation; and
In case si::irl Union Pacific Company, Its zsz :aals,sl acx
successors o;! assigns hails so to eon:itruat a line or lines of
rail:aay wlth,4;ae sail throe ye.,'a from the ::swage of ti]is o;.'Cil lanoe,
and have the sfnae in operation, Chen and in that ease, all rights,
vacations or ease-ments herein acquired by the said Union Pacific
Railroad Com,-p ,y, its successors or assigns, iih.•lll revert to and
become re-irss9 ed in the City of Fort Collins, and the said
Company, its successors and as:3ivns shall re-convey and c!uitulaim
lento the city all those portions of streets that. shall revert to it
or there by roa son of the several vaeatiOns of streets and Pests Of
streets herein ordered.
SECOND: Union Pacific Railroad Company its successors and
as:Agzas shall -;ever lay or erzuso to be laid any railroad tracks in
that portion of Jefferaon Street vacated by the 6th. and 7th.
sections hereof.
THIRD: Before this ordinance shall become operative and within
sixty days of the passage thereof, said Union Psclfic Railroad
Cor:eprny, its successors or assigns, shall file with the City Clerc
of the City of Fort Collins, its acceptance in Writing of this
ordinance, and of each and every term and condition thereof ,
Passed and adopted, signed and approved this 19th. day of August
1909, 619 cue