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A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT TO MAKE CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS ON PARK AVENUE BETWEEN 17TH STREET AND THE CITY LIMITS
WHEREAS, Park Avenue is a state and Federal Highway from 17th street
to the City Limits, and the State Highway Department has assumed responsibility
for construction and maintenance of said highway; and
WHEREAS, the volumn of traffic moving through the city along the said
highway has greatly increased since the announcement of the construction
of the atomic energy plant on the site of the Kentucky Ordnance Works; and
WHEREAS. most of the employees of said plant travel over said highway
daily while going to and from work and the heavy traffic thereon endangers
not only the lives of motorists, but also the lives of children who attend
school and play in a public park located on said highway; and
WHEREAS, sidewalks are also badly needed for use by pedestrians because
of the exceedingly heavy traffic on said street;
N0W THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That the City of Paducah request the State Highway Department
to immediately undertake the work of making the following improvements on Park
Avenue;
a. Increase the width of the pavement to 42 feet from curb to curb,
from 17th Street west to the city limits.
b. Construct the necessary curbs and gutters to provide pedestriams
with safe walking space without interference by traffic from 17th
Street to the entrance of Noble Park.
SECTION 2. That the City Manager transmit to the Commissioner of Highway
and to the Judge of the McCracken Fiscal Court a letter urging that immediate
attention be given to the improvement of the aforesaid street, together with
a certified copy of this resolution..
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners March 6, 1951
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, March 6, 1951.