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ORiGlt~~L RESOLUTION NO. 5371
A RESOLUTION OVERRULING PRO'.rES'l'S ANO ORDERING
FORMATION OF THE CALIFORNIA AVENUE AREA OFF-
STREET PARKING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT
RESOLVED, by the council of the City of Palo Alto, California,
WHERBAS, pursuant to Section 13.12.0SO(c) and Chapter 13.16
of the Palo Alto Municipal Code, the Council of said City did on the
14th day of February, 1977, adopt its Resolution of Intention No. 5353
to form the Ci'lifornia Avenue Area Offstreet Parking Maintenance
District in said City, for the purpose of p~oviding within and for
said lands, hereinafter particularly deEcribed, maintenance and
operation of improvements hereinafter referred to, and to assess the
costs thereof upon the properties benefited by said maintenance ~nd
operation, which was to be designated as wcalifornia Avenue Area
Offstreet Parking Maintenance Districtw;
WHEREAS, said Council did declare in said resolution its
intention to order that the expense of maintaining and operating
all offstreet parking places of the City within said proposed
district, including all walkways, crosswalks, fences, safety zones,
platforms, steps, stairways, fountains, signs, park and parkways,
retaining walls, and embankments, and all structures or other faci-
lities necessary for park and parkway purposes, drainage facilities,
poles, posts, wires, pipes, conduits, tunnels, lamp~ and other suit-
able or necessary appliances for the purpose of lighting streets,
places or public ways: water mains and sprinkler systems, and orna-
mental -planting, including lawns, shrubs and trees; all as now
existing or hereafter to be constructed in or for said maint~:nance
district, and of benefit to said maintenance district, but not to
the City of Palo Alto as a whole; including the cost of necessary
repairs, replacements, fuel, power, electric current, care, ~uper-
vision, and any and all other items necessary for the proper
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maintenance and operation thereof, shall be assessed upon the real
property lying within said off~tr«:'t.•t parkin~1 m.Jintt.•nc.tnct.' diHlt'lt..·t
above described, which district said Council determined would be
the district benefited by the maintenance and operation of said
improvements;
WHEREAS, notice of the adoption of said resolution was duly
published and notices of its pas·;age were duly posted and mailed for
the time and in the form and manner provided by law, all as more
particularly appears from the certificates or affidavits thereof
on file in the office of the City Clerk; whereupon the hearing upon
the formation of said maintenance district was duly and regularly
held at the time and place a.dvertised in said notices; and
WHEREAS, zero persons interested, objecting to the
formation of said maintenance district in accordance with said
_ r~s9lution of intention, filed written protests with the Clerk of
said City at or before the time set for said hearing, and all per-
sons interested desiring to be heard were given an opportunity to
be heard, and all matters and things pertaining to the formati~n
thereof were fully heard and considered by said Coun~il;
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HERE;~Y ~ROERED as follows:
1. That all written protests and other written conununica-
tions were publicly read at said hearing and all persons desiring
to be heard were frilly heard, and that all protests be, and each
of them are hereby, overruled.
2. That the public interest and convenience require the
formation of a maintenance district, which dist:i~t is hereby
formed for the maintenance and operation of all walkways, cross-
walks, fences, safety zones, platforms, steps, stairwe.}'S, fountains,
signs, park and parkways, retaining walls, and embankments, and all
structures or other facilities necessary for park and parkway pur-
poses, drainage facilities, poles, posts, wires, pipes, conduits,
tunnels, lamps and other suitable or nece~sary appliances for the
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purpose of lighting streets, places or public ways: water mains
and sprinkler systems, and ornamental planting, in~luding lawns,
shrubs and treesi all as now existing or hereafter to be constructed
in or for said maintenance district, and of benefit to said mainten-
ance district, but not to the City of Palo Alto as a whole, which
ctistrict se-id Council hereby determines will be the district bene-
fited by the maintenance and operation of said improvement3.
3. That said district be and it is hereby designated as
"California Avenue Area Offstreet Parking Maintenance District• by
which name it shall hereafter be referred to in all subsequent pro-
ceedings, including proceedings for the levy and collection of
assessments.
4. Said annual offstreet parking maintenance assessments
shall be levied against all taxable real property within the boun-
daries 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 Munici-
pal Code; said assessments shall be levied at a rate per adjusted
square footage of floor areas of nonresi~ential ~tructures (other
than those completely vacant on the lien date) sufficient to pay
all costs, as set forth in Section 4, of maintenance of said im-
provements as determined by the annual budget for said district to
be approved by t.~is Council1 provided, that such rate of assessment
shall in no event exceed $.06 per adjusted square foot. Said
special assessment tax shall be levied and collected at the same
time and in the same manner as the general tax le"JY for City pur-
poses and when collected be paid into the City Treasury to the credi "C -
of the fund of the maintenance district and be used for the payment
of the expenses of such district.
s. That the district and the boundaries thereof benefited
and to be assessed for the maintenance and operation of the improve-
ments so described, are situate in the City of Palo Alto, County of
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Santa Clara, State of California, and are more particularly described
in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and by reference incorporated herein.
6. That the proceedings for the formation of said district
were taken and said district formed pursuant to Section 13.12.0SO(c)
and Chapter 13.16 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and
correct co~y of a resolution duly passed and adopted by the Council
of the City of Palo AlLo, California, at a meeting thereof held on
the 21st day of March , 1977, by the following vote
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of the members thereo~:
AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilme1nbers: Beahrs. Berwald,
Carey, Comstock, Eyerly, Witherspoon
NOES, Councilmembers: ~one
ABSTAIN, Counc ilmembers: Norton
ABSENT, Councilmembers: Sher
Palo A to
APPROVED:
APPROVED:
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BOUNI>Aal.ES OF CALff~IUllA AVENVE AUA
PAJlKINC MAINTENANCE DISTIICT
Beglnning at a point on the _northeasterly llr.e of El Camino Real, ••ld
point being 120.0 feet southeasterly from the point of intersection thereof
with the aoutheaster~y line of She~n Avenue; thence ~~aving sald
northeasterly line northeasterly, parallel to Sherman Avenue 435.63 feet;
thence northwesterly, parallel to 1aid northeasterly line of El c .. tno
Real, 25.00 feet; thence northeasterly, parallel to Sherman Avenue,
146.00 feet to • point in the ceQterline of Aah Street; thence soucheaaterly,
along aaid centerline, 19.00 feet; thence northeasterly, parallel to said
Sherman Avenue, 377.42 feet to a point tu the centerline of Birch Street;
thence southeasterly. along sald last 11&111ed centerline 6.00 feet; thence
northeasterly, parallel to Sherman Avenue, 426.57 feet to a point in the
centerline of Park Boulevard; thence northweaterly along said la~t naiaed
centerline 150.00 feet to the intersection. thereof with the centerline of
,, Shel"Nll Avenuei thenc:e aor,..~easterly along •aid l••t aaaed centerline 125 feet±
to the point of intersection thereof with the aouthwest•rly right-of-way
line of the Southern Pacific Railroad; thence northwe•terly along ••id
las: ~d right-of-way line 353 ± feet to a point in the centerline of
California Avenue; thence northeaateriy along aaid last named centerliue
75 feet± to the point of i.o.tereection thereof with the centerline of
Park Boule•ard; thence northwe•terly along said last named centerline
SOO feet± to a point on• line vbich i• parallel to and distant 135.71 feet
nortbwe1terly froa. meanred at right angles to, the northwesterly line of
Cllllbridge Avenue; thence •outbwe1terly, parallel to Cembridge A~wenue 167.79
feet; thence eouthea•te1:ly at right ogles 35. 71 feet; thence southwe•terly,
parallel to C.-brtdge Avenue, 1157.30 feet; thence northwesterly, at right
angle• 134.0S feet to a point on the southeasterly U.ne of College Avenue;
thence southveaterly, along aald l••t na11ed llne, 245 feet ±. to the point
of tnteraec tiou t:Jereof .,,1th the northeasterly Uae of El C•ino Keal;
thence aoutbea•t•rly along said northeasterly line 1093 feet ::!:. to the pol.at
of bealmd.q.
EXHIBIT "A"