The record-union., 1899-04-04
OAK PARK STREET GRADES.
COUNTY SURVEYOR MAKES A
REPORT THEREON.
His Suggestions as to the Better
Method for the Proposed
Improvement.

Improvement.
| County Surveyor Boyd yesterday filed
with the Supervisors report relating
| to the grade of Sacramento avenue, in
Oak Park, which he had been instructed
to investigate, with view to the estab-
lishment Of an official grade The re-
port is as follows:
! To the Honorable Board of Supervis-
| ors-Gentlemen: BY virtue of the order
| of your honorable board, to me direct
ed, in the matter of the petition of A..
A. Weisler ct al, to cause the Sacra-
mento Electric, Gas and Railway Com
pany to move their hanger poles to the
edge of the sidewalk on Sacramento av-
enue, Oak Park, and by which order
"the County Surveyor is instructed to
examine into the establishment OF the
grades and sidewalk of Sacramento
avenue. from Thirty-first and Y streets
to Thirty fifth street." l have made the
requisite preliminary surveys in the
premises, and respectfully report as fol-
lows, to wit:
Your attention is respectfully directed
to the difference between the petition,
as presented, and the work of "estab-
fishing grades" which 1 am directed to
examine into.
The petition seeks to improve Sacra-
mento avenue by moving the hanger
poles. back to the line of the sidewalks,
and by grading. Both of these items
are separate and distinct from the es-
tablishment of grades, which latter
should be done only in the event of the
cd Of ha
ture ultimate Improvement of the ave-
mes Of the park.
These grades must be adjusted care
fully for the park as an entirety, look
ing forward to the inevitable advance
ment of the community and its ulti-
mate growth to size to justify its in
corporation or it's addition to Sacra-
mento City; they must also be adjusted
SO as to give maximum grades for sur
face drainage and sewerage, and to
minimize the necessity of hauling in of
earth filing for abutting lot owners.
While 1 recognize the Importance of
the official establishment of the grades
of the streets and sidewalks of Oak
Park, yet this work can be properly
done only as a whole and not by piece
meal.
Numerous residents of the park have
constructed sidewalks, curbing, and
planted shade trees, all in haphazard
fashion, each according to his own
ideas and each different from his
neighbor and, in consequence, will
necessarily demand rectiication at no
far distant day. The shade trees now
growing are located on lines which
should be changed ere it is too late.
| I respectfully suggest, in conformity
| to the desire and intent of your petit
TONERS, that Sacramento avenue be
graded or macadamize5, and that the
plan accompanying this report be de-
clared official, the plan filed for record,
and, by proper ordinance or resolution,
that the official lines for Oak Park be
as follows to wit:
| On Sacramento avenue 100 feet wide
For power and all other poles, 1884,
| feet from center Of avenue; for outer
! line of curbing, 81 feet from center of
avenue: for line of shade trees, SO feet
from center of avenue; for outer line
of sidewalk. ~ feet from center of ave
nue..
On all other avenues, so feet wide
For power and all other poles, 2311a feet
| from center Of avenue; for outer line
of curling, "a feet from center of ave-
nue.: for line of shade trees, % feet
from center of avenue; for outer line
of sidewalk, 80 feet from center of ave-
nue..
| I find the existing hanger poles are
| located % feet from the center of Sac
ramento avenue, and 10 feet from the
center of Thirty-fifth street. If moved
at all, these poles would be moved
about five feet. The present available
space between the outer rail and the
pole line on each side of Sacramento av-
enue is 20la feet, which is three feet
wider than the available space between
the railway track and the curb on or
K streets of this city
The chief and only difficulty at this
time, 1 find, is the urgent neces-
Isity of grading up Sacramento av-
enue and Thirty-fifth street Whether
the poles are moved or not, this
work should be done. and it is
of sufficient Importance, in my
opinion, to justify the improvement be-
ing made by matchmaking these
streets from Y street to Cypress ave-
nue.. Should the avenue be macadam-
lied. I would most urgently advise the
establishing of official grades and the
moving of the poles to the position in
dicated on the accompanying PLAN
Should the avenue be graded, then
would respectfully advise that am
pie drainage be provided inside or
toward the sidewalk from the existing
location of the poles: that earth be
hauled in, and the entire space from
the outer line of rails to the poles be
made available for traffic. in which
event find no immediate necessity for
the removal of the poles.
With this avenue properly graded
and drained. there would be an avail
able space for traffic between the exist
| ing poles of Sc feet on Sacramento ave-
nue.. or eight feet wider than the street.
ways of Sacramento city. This grading
would necessitate the hauling in of APP
proximately 2,200 cubic yards of earth
filing.
The recent painful accident to one of
our most prominent citizens resulting
from the existing condition of Sacra-
mento avenue is proof only too con-
elusive of the urgent necessity of
prompt work being done to place this
avenue in safe condition to receive