Resolution 1280 04101 MOM
RESOLUTION NO. 1280
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
1. That that land located in Dade County, Florida, and within
the City of :Miami Beach, Florida, described as follows, to-wit:
Bounded on the Nast by the Atlantic sicean, on the North by the Richard
Carney Tract, on the West by Ocean Drive and on the South by the Ed-
mund Wilson Tract, together with all common law riparian rights vested
in said City, and which was heretofore by deed dated December 4, 1927 ,
conveyed by The Southern bank & Trust Company, as Trustee , to the City
of Miami beach of rade County, Florida, has continuously since the
date of said deed of conveyance been used exclusively for park purposes
and as a city park, and has heretofore , by a resolution of said City
Council, been named and designated Lummus Park; that Ocean Drive , a
highway bounding said land on the West, as it is dedicated upon plats,
is a narrow street or highway wholly inadequate to accommodate traffic
thereon; that large numbers of persons park in said highway adjacent
to said iiummus Park with automobiles and thereby lessen the space in
said street for use by vehicles and pedestrians so as to congest it ;
that it has heretofore become necessary, in order to relieve such con-
gestion on said Ocean Drive , and in order to make the said Lummus Park,
the land above described, more accessible to citizens and visitors of
said City for use as a park, and the better to enable them to conven-
iently and fully enjoy said park, to widen said Ocean Drive and that
to accomplish such widening it became necessary to widen that part of
said drive used for vehicular traffic by removing the entire sidewalk
heretofore constructed on the East side of said drive and immediately
adjacent to said park and to provide a walkway over a ten foot strip
of said ;dark five feet bast of said Ocean Drive, and by widening said
Ocean give driveway for vehicles so that it embraces a strip of said
park five feet wide to enable citizens and visitors of said City to
more conveniently and fully enjoy said park and that widening and side-
k have been done and constructs that the surface of said park is
of heavy sand, inconvenient and unpleasant to walk in, to obviate
which said sidewalk may be used; that said park has been improved
and beautified by the installation and cultivation of trees, shrub-
bery and various plants and the installation and maintenance of
tennis courts, seats and playgound apparatus; that said park nor any
part thereof has ever been abandoned by said City nor has it , or any
part thereof been used for commercial or residential purposes, and that
to make said park, where large numbers of persons congregate to and
do bathe in the Atlantic Ocean immediately adjacent to said pare, safe
and convenient for such persons , it is deemed expedient to erect and
maintain in said park comfort stations, and watch towers fr life
guards, who are to be provided to rescue persons in danger in said
Atlantic Ocean; and that said confort stations and said watch towers
shall never be used by anyone for commercial or residential purposes.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of February, A. D. , 1926.
President of City Council
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