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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 3923WJML:KIJ:gt 8/22/66 25C RESOLUTION NO. 3923 A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ACQUIRE AND CONSTRUCT IMPROVEMENTS CLEMO AVENUE PROJECT NO. 66-7 RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Palo Alto, California, as follows: 1. That it does hereby preliminarily determine that the public interest and convenience require, and that it intends to order the following work to be done, acquisitions and improvements to be made, to wit: a) The opening and improving of Clemo Avenue from Arastradero Road to Maybell Avenue by grading, removing trees, bushes and existing structures, and the construction therein of Portland cement concrete curbs, gutters, sidewalks and driveway aprons, base pavement and wearing surface, street lighting facilities, storm drainage catch basins, inlets and appurtenances, and utility services and laterals as required. b) The acquisition of all lands and easements and the con- struction of all improvements auxiliary to any of the above and necessary to complete the same. 2. All of the blocks, streets and alleys herein mentioned are shown on maps of record in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Clara County, State of California, and shall be shown on the plans herein referred to and to be filed with the City Clerk of said City. 3. Whenever any public way is herein referred to as running between two public ways, or from or to any public way, the intersec- tions of the public ways referred to are included to the extent that work shall be shown on the plans to be done herein. 4. All of said work and improvements are to be constructed at the places and in the particular locations, of the forms, sizes, dimensions and materials, and at the lines, grades and elevations as shown and delineated upon the plans, profiles and specifications to be made therefor, as hereinafter provided. 5. There is to be excepted from the work above described any of such work already done to line and grade and marked excepted or shown not to be done on said plans, profiles and specifications. • 6. Said Council does hereby adopt and establish as the official grades for said work the grades and elevations to be shown upon said plans, profiles and specifications. Ali such grades and elevations are to be in feet and decimals thereof with reference to the datum plane of the City of Palo Alto. 7. Notice is hereby given of the fact that in many cases said work and improvement will bring the finished work to a grade different from that formerly existing, and that to said extent said grades are hereby changed and that said work will be done to said changed grades. 8. The descriptions of the acquisitions and improvements and the termini of the work contained in this resolution are general in nature. All items of work do not necessarily extend for the full length of the description thereof. The plans and profiles of the work and the map and descriptions of the acquisitions, as contained in the Engineer2s report, shall be controlling as to the correct and detailed description thereof. 9. The costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements are hereby made chargeable upon an assessment district, which district said Council declares to be the district benefited by said acquisi- tions and improvements, and the exterior boundaries of which are de- scribed and shown on the map identified as "Map Showing Boundaries of Proposed Assessment District, Project No. 667", onfilein the office of the City Clerk, which indicates by a boundary line the extent of the territory included within the assessment district and which shall govern for all details as to the extent of said proposed district. That the Council hereby declares that the lands of the City of Palo Alto used for fire station purposes and located within the boundaries of said proposed assessment district shall be included in the assess- ment and assessed for its share of the cost of said acquisitions and improvements in proportion to benefits. 10. Said Council further declares that all public streets, high- ways, lanes and alleys within said assessment district shall be omitted 2 • • from the assessment hereafter to be made to pay the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements. 11. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent the unpaid assessments (exclusive of the amounts to be assessed against ].ands of the City) shall be issued pursuant to the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, Division 10 of the Streets and Highways Code, the last installment of which bonds shall mature not to exceed nine (9) years from the 2nd day of July next succeedin ten months from their date. 12. Except as herein otherwise provided for the issuance of bonds, all of said work shall be done as provided in the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, and Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California. Reference is made to the proceedings taken pursuant to said Division 4 of said Streets and Highways Code on 11 file in the office of the City Clerk. 13. Said acquisitions and improvements are hereby referred to the City Engineer of said City, as the officer having charge and con- trol of the acquisition and construction of public improvements in and for said City of the kind described herein, being a competent person employed by said City for that purpose, and said Engineer is hereby directed to make and file with the City Clerk of said City a report in writing, presenting the following: (a) Maps and descriptions of lands, easements and rights to be acquired;. (b) Plans and specifications of the proposed improvements to be made pursuant to this Resolution; and (c) Engineer's estimate of the total costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements and of the incidental expenses in con- nection therewith. (d) Diagram showing the assessment district above referred to, and also the boundaries and dimensions of the respective subdivisions of land within said district as the same existed at the time of the passage of this Resolution, each of which subdivisions shall be given a separate number upon said diagram; 3 • 1 (e) A proposed assessment of the total amount of the costs and expenses of the proposed acquisitions and improvements upon the several subdivisions of land within said district in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by such subdivisions, repsec- tively, from said acquisitions and improvements, and of the expenses incidental thereto. 14. Notice is hereby given that, in the opinion of the Council, the public interest will not be served by allowing the property own- ers to take the contract for the construction of the improvements and that, pursuant to Section 10502.4 of the Streets and Highways Code, no notice of award of contract shall be published. 15. If any excess shall be realized from the assessment it shall be used for the maintenance of the improvements. * * * * * 4 • • 1 hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of a resolution duly passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Palo Alto, California, at a meeting thereof held on the 12th day of September , 1966, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Majority voice vote. NOES, Councilmen: Flint. ABSENT, Councilmen: Dias, Worthington. APPROVED: Vice Mayor