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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 5353RESOLUTION NO. 5353 • ·WJHL:K:&.~ :vm Rev: A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO FORM MAINTENANCE DISTRICT CALIFORNIA AVENUE AREA OFFSTREET PARKING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT 1-20-77 2/1/77 RESOLVED, by the Cou11cil of the City of Palo Alto, California~ as follO"ws: 1. In the opinion of this Council, th~ public interest and convenience require, and it is the· intention of said Council to order the formation of an offstreet parking maintenance district in a por- tion of said City to be designated "California Avenue Area Offstreet ·. Parking Maintenance District", by which name it shall hereafter be refe=red to in all subsequent proceedings, including proceedings for the levy and collection of assessments. 2. Said offstreat parking maintenance district, and the boundaries thereof, benefited and to be assessed for the maintenance and operation of the improvements hereinafter referred to, are situate in the Count~ of Santa Clara, State of California, and are particu- larly described in Exhibit "A" h:-.reto attached and by reference incor- porated herein. 3. It is ordered that the expenses of maintaining and operating all offstreet parking places of the City within said proposed dis- trict, including all walkway6, crosswalks, fences, safety zones, plat- forms, steps, stairways, fountains, signs, park and parkways, ·retain- ing walls, and embankments, and all structures o~ other facilities necessary for park and parkway eurposes, drai=iage facilities, poles, posts, wires, pipes, conduits, tunnels, lamps and other suitable or necessary appliances for the purpose of lighting ctreets, places or public ways; water mains and sprinkler ayateQS, and ornamental plan-t;ilng, including lawns, shrubs and trees; all as now existing or hereafter to be constructed in or for said maintenance diatri~t, and of benefit to said maintenance district., r·..\t not tc. the City of Palo Alto as a whole; ................................................ ..,,~~iliiiill~'.!lllm .............................. ~ ; . including the cost of necessary repairs, replacements, fuel, power, el.ectric current, care, supervision, and-any and all other items necessary for the prcper maintenance and operation thereof, shall be assessed upon the real property lying within said of £street parking maintenance district above described, which district said Cow1cil hereby preliminariiy determines will be the district benefited by the maintenance-and operation of said improvements. 4. Said annual offstreet parking maintenance assessments shall be levied against all taxable real property within the boundaries of said district in accordance with the ordinance formula set forth in Section 13.16.150 (Bond Plan G-Vehicle Offstreet Parking Bonds) of Chapter 13.16 of Title 13 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code; said assessments shall be levied at a rate per adjusted square footage of floor areas of nonresidential structures (o~her than those completely vacant on the lien date) sufficient to pay all costs, as set forth in Section 4, of maintenance of said improvements as determined by the annual budget for said district to be approved by this Council; pro- vided, that such ~ .te of assessment shall in no event exceed $ .06 per adjusted square foot. Said special assessmen_t tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner. as the general tax levy for City purposes and wh£n collected be paid into the City T~easury to the credit of the fund of the maint~~tance district and be used for the payment of the expenses of such district. 5. Notice is hereby given that Monday, the 14th day of Mar.ch, 1977, at the hour of 7:30 p.m. at the r~gular meeting place of this Council, at the Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California, la hereby fixed as the time and place when and where any and all persons interested having objectioas thereto may make objecticn to the formation of said maintenance district or the ex- tent thereof, or both, may appear before said Council and sh("'-.. cause why the formation of said proposed ma_intenance district should not be carried out in accordance with this Resolution of Intention. 6. The Clerk of said City is hereby directed to cause to be -2- ,• . mailed, postage prepaid, notices of the adoption of this Resolution of Intention to all persons owning real property proposed to be assessed whose names and addr~sses appear on the last equalized assessment· ro11 prior thereto, at the address~s a~ shown upon the roll or as kn~wn to said Clerk, and of the transferees of any such persons as their names and addresses appear on the records in the Assessor's office which will be used to prepare the next ensuing roll, and to :lll per.:.·· sons, including those whose propercy is assessed by the State, under Section 19 of Article XIII of the California Con~titution, who filed with the Assessor for the current fiscal year, statements of name and address and a request that notices be mailed to them at said address or whose address is shown upon the last Board roLl transmitted to the Count; Auditor, said mailing to be completed not later than ten (10) days prior to the date herein fixed for hearing. 7 ... The Clerk Qf said City is hereby direct.ed_to -~~us~ __ to_ b~----~-__ _ conspicuo~ly post~d along the lines of the proposed maintenanc( dis- trict, and on all open streets within said district, at not more than 300 feet in distance apart, and not less than three in all, notices of the passage of this Resolution, which notices shall be entitled, "Notice of Proposed Formation of California Avenue Area Off street Parking Maintenance District", in letters not less than one inch in height; and shall in legible characters, state the fact and date of passage of the Resolution of Intention and the time and place set for the hearing of protests, briefly describe the improvements and facil- ities proposed to be maintained and operated, the formula to be es- tablished for the levy of the assessment to pay the expenses of said maintenance and operation, and refer to the Resolution of Intention for furthe~ particulara. Said poeting shall be ~ully completed at leadt ten (10) days prior to the date fixed for said hearing. 8. The Clerk of said City shall cause a notice similar in form to the notice to be posted, to be published ~nee a w~ek for two suc- cessive weeks, with at least five days intervening between the respec- tiy~ paj>li~~-~iot!_ c!_ates not _coun.~!_11,g such p~!_ication ·dates, in the -3- . .. . . "' .. ,, .. Palo Alto Times, a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Palo Alto, the first publication of which shall be at least ten (10) days prior to the date fixed for said hearing. 9. Said proceedings are being taken and said district is pro- posed to be formed pursuant to Section 13.12.0SO(c) and the provisions of Chapter 13.16 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code. * *. * * * * I hereby certify that the foregoing is .;. 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 14th day of February • 1977, by the following vote of the member$ thereof: AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmembers: Beahrs, Carey, Clay, Comstock, Eyerly, Norton, Sher, Witherspoon NOES, ABSENT, APPROVED: APPROVED: Councilmembers: None Councilmembers: Be~41.d -4- ty of Palo Alto ·' .. . ,. . . . • PROPCSEI> IOUNDAAIE~ OF CALIFORNIA AVENU! AIU PAJU(IHC MAINTENANCE DISTeICT Beginning at a potnt on the northeasterly line 'of El Camino Real, 1atd point being 120.0 feet southeasterly from the point of intersection thereof with the aoutheasterly line of Sherman Avenue; thence leaving said nort:1easterly line northea1terly, parallel to Shet'1Dan Avenue 435.63 feet; thence aorthweaterly, parallel to aaid northeasterly line of El Caal.no Real, 25.00 feet; thence northeasterly, ~arallel to Sherman Aveuue, 146.00 feet to a point in the centerline of Ash Street; thence southeasterly, along said centerline, 19.00 feet; thence northeasterly, parallel to said Sherman A11enue. 377.42 feet to a point ia the ceaterliae of Birch Street; thence soutbesaterly, along 1aid last nauied centerline 6.00 feet; theacE northe~sterl), parallel to Sherman Avenue, 426.57 feet to a point in the centerline of Perk Boulevard; th.enc~ northwesterly along said last nmaed centerline 150.00 feet to the intersection thereof with the centerltne of Sherman Avenv.ei theace nortbea•cerly along •.lid last umed centerl111e 125 feet± to the point of intersection th~reof with the 1outhwe1terl,-rigbt-of-vay liDe of the Southern Pacific Railroad; thence northweaterly alon& eaid l41t named right-of-way line 353 ± feet to a point in the centerline of CaliforniQ A'Venua; thence northea1terl~ alon~ aaid laat named centerline 7S feet ± to the point of intene..:tian thereof with th.? centerU.ne of Park Boulevard; thence norehwe1terly along said last named centerltae SOO,f~et ±to & point OD a line which ii parallel to and distant 135.71 feet north\M1terly froa, measured a: right angles to, the nox-tlw•te~ly line of Cambridge Avenue; thence southwesterly. parallel to C~ridge Avenue 167.79 leet; tbence soutbeaaterly at right angles 3S.7l feet; thence soutbweaterl). parallel to Cambridge Avemae., 1157.30 feet; thence northwe•terly, at riglat angles 134.0S feet to a point on the southeasterly lirae of Collegs Aveu.u.a; thence aouthtMaterly, along aaid last :a-d liae, 245 feet ± ·'° the point of iateraection thereof \lith the northeasterly line of El C•lno Baal; t!>eDCe 90Utbeutedy aloq 1aicl nortber.3terly line 1093 feet ± to tbll poU.t of be11DA1Dg. EXHIBIT "A"