Ordinances for Street Width and Curbing in Gettysburg Borough
The Burgess and Town Journal of Gettysbars Borough ordains street and sidewalk standards. Sidewalks must be eleven feet on main streets and nine feet on others with brick or stone paving and proper grading. Notices to property owners trigger repairs with costs plus twenty percent. obstruction of sidewalks is forbidden and penalties include fines and costs.
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Ordinance Renames Liberty Street and Expands Width
The Burgess and Lown neil of Gettysburg enact an ordinance naming the street intersecting York Street east of Leonard Street as Liberty Street and increasing its width by seventeen feet on the east side to fifty feet. It also widens Liberty Street from Stratton Street to Liberty Street to align with the borough plan, with the center of the widened section in line with the center of the adjacent west segment.
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Ordinance to Prevent Nuisances in Burgessami Borough
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Public Works Debt and Sales Debate in State Campaign
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