HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 12, Page 40, No Resolution Number:,ESOLU`.PIO" MATIMT TO ` -E SELECTIOY 01" ROUTES FOR AM `SIE COMPLETILOIT
-'T -- OU.:H THE. CI`.P`L 0? PADUCAH, i'ENNCI=} :
.TEREAS, the -Kentucky State Department of i?i�-rnia.,-s using state and
;ederaI funds for improvement of :ederal highriays.through municipalities; has
conroleted pavin3 and -related construction on )actions 1 and 2 of the Paducah
beltlino project, and has let the contract for construction of the underpass
beneath the Paducah and Illinois Railroad tracks on the Jackson street section
the beltline; and
CV-��EAS, the completion of the .,aducah beltlino project will greatly
facilitate the passage of traffic of U. S. M hways 45, 60, 62 and 68 throu;-h
Paducah; and
WIMEAS, the State highway Department's engineers have not yet determi
e;mctly where the beltline is to be located in the southern part of Paducah, wi
particular reference to crossing of the Cross Creek basin and of the Illinois
Central Railroad tracks at Union Station;
NO: IMEREr ORE, DE IT RESOLVED B -Z T I , 3CARD 0 M-:.:ISSIODm, Or ra CITY
OF PADUCAH, _,ZYTUCIKY:
That the State IIigbiay Departi:ient be assured of the gratitude of the
City of Paducah for the consideration the state has already given this desirable
hir-hway improvement; and
That it is the desire of the --;card of Commissioners to cooperate in all
proper :'rays with the State _Ii ftiay Dopar n.ient fog° the rapid completion of the
entire beltlino, and
That the Ioard of Corvnissioners recoi;wiend to the Highway Department that)
it consider completinC the beltline in the southern section of the City of Paduca
in t:,io parts, and
That the ?Iighway Department be requested to make surveys as soon as
possible for the construction of the beltline eastward on Jackson Street from
maent;,,-Eighth Street to South `_tenty-first, and from T:+enty-first and Old ;'ay -
field Road on Coaey and Circle Streets to the vicinity of Union Station, and
That the State HiChway Department be urged to authorize construction
of this new section of the beltlino in the 1950-1951 construction season, and
That the -oard of Com--iscioners hereby pledges to provide its share of
the riLht of :•gay costs, for such land as the proposed survey indicates is needed
for the now hi--hrtay, and
That a cony of this resolution be mailed to the Cohmiissioll- o
-__ hwa ys of the State of = en tuc ky. O �y
r'asscd by the :=oard of Con,.miscioners April 10, 195C
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, April 1E, 1950.