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SEC. 51A-7.1101.   DESIGNATION OF UPTOWN SIGN DISTRICT.
   A special sign provision district is hereby created to be known as the Uptown Sign District. For purposes of this division, the Uptown Sign District of the City of Dallas is that area of the city within the following described boundaries:
   Being a tract or parcel of land situated in the John Grigsby Survey, Abstract No. 495 and being part of City of Dallas Blocks 2/929, J/929, 1/929, I/942, 5/944, 948, l/949, 949, 3/950 and all of Blocks A/540, 3/929, 2/933, 3/933 and 2/948 and also being part of the following dedicated streets: Yeargan Street, Leonard Street, Howell Street, Bookout Street, Maple Avenue, McKinney Avenue, Pearl Street, McKinnon Street, and the North Dallas Tollway and being more particularly described as follows:
      BEGINNING at a point for corner in the centerline of Leonard Street (50 feet wide), said point being North 45°11'10" West, a distance of 243.15 feet from the intersection of the centerline of Thomas Avenue (variable width) and the centerline of said Leonard Street;
      THENCE South 44°50'21" West, a distance of 68.00 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE South 14°42'00" West, a distance of 243.37 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE South 45°11'00" West, a distance of 269.95 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of North Pearl Street (variable width) and the beginning of a curve to the left;
      THENCE in a northwesterly direction along said centerline of North Pearl Street and along said curve to the left whose chord bears North 50°55'28" West, and having a radius of 547.63 feet, a central angle of 16°06'58" and an arc length of 154.04 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of McKinney Avenue (60 feet wide) and the end of said curve to the left;
      THENCE South 15°00'00" West along the centerline of McKinney Avenue, a distance of 106.93 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE South 89°15'32" West, a distance of 667.47 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of Cedar Springs Road (variable width);
      THENCE North 03°02'00" West along the centerline of Cedar Springs Road, a distance of 149.72 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of said Pearl Street;
      THENCE South 82°27'00" West along the centerline of Pearl Street and along the centerline of the North Dallas Tollway (variable width), a distance of 122.00 feet to a point for corner and the beginning of a curve to the right;
      THENCE in a northwesterly direction continuing along the centerline of said Dallas North Tollway and along said curve to the right having a radius of 124.57 feet, a central angle of 51°00'00" and an arc length of 110.88 feet to a point for corner and the end of said curve to the right;
      THENCE North 46°33'00" West continuing along the centerline of said Dallas North Tollway, a distance of 207.54 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of Yeargan Street (variable width);
      THENCE North 42°06'27" East along the centerline of Yeargan Street, a distance of 94.48 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE North 0°31'00" West continuing along the centerline of said Yeargan Street, passing at 224.36 feet the centerline of North Pearl Street (50 feet wide) and at 555.72 feet the centerline of Bookout Street to the east (33 feet wide) and continuing a total distance of 577.98 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of Bookout Street to the west (50 feet wide);
      THENCE North 45°31"00" West along the centerline of Bookout Street, a distance of 329.67 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE North 44°24'15" East passing at 146.20 feet the most westerly corner of the Cedar Maple Addition, an addition to the City of Dallas as recorded in Volume 83097, Page 1486 of the Deed Records of Dallas County, Texas and continuing along the northwest line of said Cedar Maple Addition, a total distance of 436.46 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of Maple Avenue (70 feet wide);
      THENCE North 45°39'00" West along the centerline of Maple Avenue, a distance of 247.10 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE North 44°21'00" East passing at 35.0 feet the most westerly corner of the North Dallas Improvement Co. Addition, an addition to the City of Dallas as recorded in Volume 88143, Page 2123 of the Deed Records of Dallas County, Texas and continuing along the northwest line of said addition, a total distance of 197.40 feet to the centerline of a 16 foot wide alley;
      THENCE South 45°39'00" East along the centerline of said alley passing at 248.30 feet the centerline of Cedar Springs Road and continuing along said line, a total distance of 309.76 feet to an intersection of same with the easterly line of said Cedar Springs Road;
      THENCE South 5°02'55" East along said easterly line, a distance of 51.25 feet to the intersection of same with the northwest line of Howell Street;
      THENCE North 45°08'50" East along said northwest line of Howell Street, a distance of 33.36 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE South 45°39'00" East, passing at 20.0 feet the centerline of said Howell Street and continuing along the centerline of a 16 foot wide alley, a total distance of 722.46 feet to a point for corner in the terminus of said 16 foot wide alley;
      THENCE North 44°21'00" East, a distance of 20.50 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE South 45°39'00" East, a distance of 516.07 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of said McKinney Avenue;
      THENCE North 15°00'00" East along the centerline of said McKinney Avenue, a distance of 21.49 feet to a point for corner in the centerline of said Leonard Street;
      THENCE South 45°11'10" East along the centerline of said Leonard Street, a distance of 355.51 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 36.76 acres of land. (Ord. Nos. 19649; 20037; 20378)