Resolution 1000 T
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RESOLUTION NO. 1000
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1. That on February 18th, 1925 , this City Council,
by Resolution No. 831 ordered that Sheridan
Avenue be paved, and where heretofore paved, re-
paved to a width of forty feet with a Bituminous
Baring Surface on a Rock base and Concrete curb
and gutter, from the South line of Twenty-eighth
Street to the North line of Thirtieth Street, as
said Avenue and Streets are shown on a Plat record-
ded in Plat Book No. 4, Page 154, all of the Public
Records of Dade County, Florida.
SECTION 2. That said Resolution was thereafter on March 18th,
1925, confirmed.
SECTION 3. That the Railway track of the Miami Beach Railway
Companky is now maintained and operated along said
Sheridan Avenue at the place where said Avenue is
to be paved, repaved, or improved as aforesaid,
pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance No. 205,
of this City Council, adopted April 9th, 1924.
SECTION 4. That pursuant to the provisions of Section 6, of
said Ordinance No. 2D5, said Miami Beach,Railway
Company be, and it is, hereby ordered to make the
repairs or replacements as to ballast, ties, rails
and the raising or lowering of the said railway
track as, in the opinion hereinafter set forth of
this City Council, will put said track in such con-
dition as to preclude the probability of damage to
said paving, repaving or improvement heretofore or-
dered during the reasonable life thereof due to de-
terioration of said Railway Uompany' s track main-
tained pursuant to said Ordinance No. 205, and that
if this order is not complied with within a reason-
able time and within time to enable said City to
pave that portion of said Sheridan Avenue occupied
by sach track, at the same time it is enabled to
pave the remainder of said streets, the said City
Council will assess the cost of such paving and a
proportionate part of the incidental expenses against
such Railway Company including such cost upon any
intersection of highway in accordance with the pro-
visions of Section 29, of the City Charter of said
City.
SECTION 5. That in the opinion of said City Council it will be
necessary in order to preclude the probability of
damage of said paving or repaving, or improvement
during the natural life thereof, due to deteriora-
tion of said track that the following repairs or
replacements as to the ballast, ties, rails and the
grade of said track be made, to-wit:
That said track be constructed of seven inch
grooved-girder rails properly secured to
6" X 8" X 8' creosoted ties , the latter to be
spaced not more than eighteen inches on centers
at rail joints; a1. not more than forty inches
on centers at rail centers. . -0%
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That brace tie plates be installed between the
rails and ties of said track at a maximum spac-
ing of six feet.
That catch basins of a design approved by the
City Engineer be installed under said track at
all sumps in the grade line thereof.
That said track be lined and surfaced to the lines
and grades established by the City Engineer on a
bed of crushed stone eight inches in depth after
thorough compaction.
That crushed stone be thoroughly tamped either by
hand or machine tampers under and around each tie
and the base of each rail, traffic being meanwhile
maintained on said track. That said tamping be
continued until each and all of said rails and ties
are firmly and solidly settled and bedded into their
pre-determined position and free from vibration or
movement of any kind. That said track be gone over
and re-tamped as is required until the above condi-
tion is obtained to the satisfaction of the City
Engineer.
That all rock for the above purposes lying below the
plane of the centers of the ties be furnished and
compacted in place by the said Railway Company. That
all rock lying between the center of the ties and the
base of the rail be furnished by the paving Contractor
but that the same be compacted in place by the said
Railway Company. That all rock and other paving ma-
terials lying between the base and the top of the
rail be furnished and compacted in place by the pav-
ing Contractor, except that the said Railway 'Company
will be required to tamp suitable filler material
under the rail heads on each side of each rail of each
track until this space is filled to the satisfaction
of the City Engineer.
Any defects which may develop at any time in said
track construction or in said pavement because of such
defects in said track construction shall be promptly
remedied at the expense of the said Railway Company.
SECTION 6. That said City will begin said improvement of said Sheridan
Avenue on or about July 15th, 1925, and that said Railway
Company is hereby ordered to pave, repair and make the re-
placements within that portion of said Sheridan Avenue,
occupied by said track, beginning not later than July 15th,
1925, and continuing said construction with such force or
forces of men and equipment as may be required in order to
keep such construction well in advance and entirely out of
the way of the Contractor paving the street, otherwise
said portion occupied by said track will be improved as
aforesaid by said City and the cost and incidental expenses
in accord with the Charter provisions of said City assessed
against said Railway Company.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 27th day of March, A. D. , 1925.
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