1062A - Resolution - Adopting Numbering SystemRESOLUTION NO. 10652 A
A RESOLUTION APPROVING AND ADOPTING A HOUSE
NUMBERING SYSTEM DESIGNED AND PROPOSED BY
PORT ORCHARD JAY -GEES
WHEREAS, The Port Orchard Jay-Cees, a community minded
and civic organization, has designed and proposed a uniform
house numbering system for the City of Port Orchard; and
WHEREAS, The proposed system follows as closely as
possible, the "grid" system approved and recommended by the
Association of Washington Cities; and
WHEREAS, The adoption of such a numbering system is
believed to be in the best interests of the orderly growth
of the city;
Now, Therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED that the below described system of
designating house and business establishment identification
street numbers be adopted:
1. (a) The "zero" line for streets extending east
and west (including southeast - northwest
streets) will be Sherman Street.
(b) Dwellings and other structures on such streets
west of Sherman Avenue will bear the geogra-
phical designation "West after the street
name. Those on such streets east of Sherman
Street will bear no geographical designation.
(c) Odd numbers will be used on north side of
the street and even numbers on the south side.
2. (a) The "zero" line for streets extending north and
and south will be a line extending parallel to
Bay Street approximately 200 feet north of the
present shore line of Sinclair inlet from
Sherman Avenue on the west to Mitchell Avenue
on the east, thence southeast to Morton Street
(Division Street), thence along the center of
the said street to the easterly city limits.
(b) Dwellings and other structures on such streets
extending northeast of Morton
Street (Division Street) will bear the geographical
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designation "North" after the street name.
Those on such streets south of the "zero"
line will bear no geographic designation.
(c) Odd numbers will be used on the east side of
the street and even numbers on the west side.
3. Numbers will be allocated 100 to the average city
block, whether the cross streets actually.exist or not.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Orchard,
Washington, this 12th day of August, 1968.
Attest:
City Clerk
App oVed :
City Attorne
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