Chapter 599. To regulate the grades of Twentieth street, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 599.— An Act To regulate the grades of Twentieth street, and for other purposes. May 31, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia. Regulation of grades vicinity of Twentieth street and Woodley road. That in order to regulate the grades of the streets in the vicinity of Twentieth street and Woodley road, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to abandon Hampton place and shift the location of Buckingham place, in T.
E. Waggaman’s subdivision of Pretty Prospect, Widow’s Mite, and Kalorama, and to change the location of the street line at the southwest corner of Woodley road and Connecticut avenue extended, so as to make said corner round instead of angular, *Proviso*. Reversion, etc. as at present: Provided, That the land within the lines of Hampton place which it is proposed to abandon and the land within the proposed circular corner of Woodley road and Connecticut avenue extended shall revert to the original owner or his assignees, and that the land within the lines of the new location of Buckingham place and the land outside the said circular corner of Woodley road and Connecticut avenue extended shall be dedicated to the District of Columbia.
Sec. 2. Permanent system of highways. Acceptance of dedication of streets authorized. That in order to facilitate the extension of streets and encourage the donation of land in accordance with the plans for the permanent system of highways, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized, whenever in their judgment it may seem proper, to accept the dedication of streets shown on said plans, and record same, under the following conditions, Conditions. namely:
Streets which are shown as ninety feet in width on said plans 249 may be accepted with a width of not less than sixty feet: *Provided*, *Provisos*. Building restriction lines. That the parties dedicating same agree to establish building restriction lines to agree with the street lines as shown on said plans; and streets shown on said plans as one hundred and twenty feet or more in width may be accepted with a width of not less than ninety feet: *Provided*, That the parties dedicating same agree to establish building restriction lines to agree with the street lines as shown on said, plans: *And provided further*, That the space between the street lines, as established Space between street and building restriction lines set aside for parking. under the terms hereof, and the building restriction lines shall be considered as private property set aside and to be used for parking purposes: *But provided further*, That the parties so dedicating shall agree Commissioners to control parking, etc. that said parking shall be subject to the regulations of said Commissioners in regard to height of parking and the projection of buildings beyond the building line, and that the District of Columbia shall have a right of way through said parking for sewers and water mains free of cost, and to lay thereon sidewalks, if, in the judgment of said Commissioners, the space between street lines is not sufficient to admit the construction of such sidewalks within said lines.
Approved, May 31, 1900.