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R E S 0 L U T I 0 N ____ .._ ____ _ N 0 • 1499
OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION
PROJECT 46-~i
Cow.PER STREET, Fr AL
RESOLVED, by the Council or the City of Pe.lo Alto
California, that it does hereby prel1m1.nar117 determine that
the public convenience anCI necessity require, and that it in-
tends to order the following work to be done and improvements
to be made 1n and tor aai( City. to-wit:
l. That Cowper Street,. 'Waverley Street, Emerson St:reet and
the north one-half of Alma Street between Oregon Avenu~9 and the
Mataetero Canal; Kipling Street a.oo South Court betweei:i Colorado
Avenue s.nCI the Matadero Canel; Brya.nt Street and Ramona Street
between the ex1et1ng pavement west or Colorado Street and the
Matadero Canal; High Street between Washington Avenue and
California Avenue; ~aebington Avenue between Alma Street and
Emerson Street; Nevada .Avenue between High St1•eet e.nd Ramona
Street; Marion Avenue between Waverley Street and Cowper Street;
Colorado Avenue and El Dorado Avenue between .Alma Street and
Cov~er Street, including 1ntersectiot.J be improved by con-
structing therein grading, crusher-rtili,,avement and asphalt concrete wearing surface, Portland cement concrete curbs, gutters,
sidewalks and dr1vevay aprons, electrol1ers with Wldergro\md
cable complete, vitrified clay pipe sanitary sever house lat-
erals, copper pipe domestic water house laterals and wrapped
seamless steel pipe gae house laterals, and work incidental
thereto;
2. All of said work and improvements are to be constructed
at the places and in the particular locations, or the forms,
sizes dimensions and materials, and to the lines grades,
and elevations as ehown an.Cl delineated upon the pians, profiles,
and spec1f1cat1ons prepared therefor, and on file 1n the office
of the City Engineer 1n the City Hall of said City, reference
to vh1ch is hereby made for fUll anti detailed description
or said proposed vork and for ru.rther particulars;
3. There 1s hereby excepted from the above work that
which is already done to line and grade,. a~ marked •excepted"
or shown nnot to be done" on the plane, profiles anCI
specifications.
4. The City Council does hereby adopt and establish as
the official grades for said work the grades an(I elevations
sho~"ll upon said plans, profiles and specifications. All such
grades and elevations a~e in feet and de~imals thereof in
reference to the official base and datum of said city.
5. All or said work shall be done under the supervie1.on
of the City Engineer or the City of Palo Alto, and all of
sai~ work and materials shall be done an.Cl rurniah~d to his
sat1s.t"act1on.
6 Said contenn:>l&t.b~ work and improvements, 11.1. the .-opinion or this C0uncil, ~s of mo~~ than locsl or ordinary publ~~
benefit, and the cost and e~•penee or de'\ing said work "i.nd the
e~penees incidental thereto, shall be 118.de chargeable upon
the district benefited there~~, which. district ahall consist
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of the consolidated and compoa1te areas of all or the parcels or property fronting on said work, together v1th all properties
fronting on any street within one-half block or an intersec-
tion vhich 1e being improved bereunder, and the exterior
bounClar1es of ea1d ~1etr1ct are hereby declared to be the
coterminous boundaries ot said composite ~ consolidated area.
The properties uo benefited, and the boundar1ea thereof, are
more parti.cula.1•ly shown on the map of .said asseument district
on file in the office of 'the City Engineer of said City, to
which reference is hereby made tor a more detailed description thereof.
7. That all city-ovned property fronting on said improve-
ments shall be assessed for its share of the cost or se1d
benefits and the amount thereof paid in cash by the City. All
public streets, alleye and ways in use 1n the performance of
the public function shall be omitted rrom the assessment
hereinafter to be made to cover the cost of said improvement.
8. Notice is hereby given that serial bo~s to represent
the unpaid asaeesmente and bear interest at the rate of not
to e~coed four per cent (4%) per annum, will be issue~ pur-
suant to Part 4, Bond Plan C or Article IV of the Palo Alto
Improvement Procedure Code, the last installment of which
shall mature nine (9) years from the second day of July ne~t
succeeding ten months from their date.
9. E~cept e5 herein otherv15e provided for the issue.nee
of bonas. all or the tibove proposed wor·k shall be done in
pursuance of the prov1s1one of Article V of ea1C Palo Alto
Improvement Procedure Code.
10. Notlce is hereby given that Monday, the
10th day of June, 1946, at the hour of 7:30 o•clock
P. M., at the Council Chamber8 01' the City Council of said
City tn the City Hall of said City are hereby fixed as the
time and place when anc'l where e.ny and a.11 persons 1ntereste"
may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the City
Council should not find all(! determine that the public conven-
ience and necessity require the improvements described an~
referred to in this resolution, without further compliance ~1th
the Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931.
11. The Clerk of the City of Palo Alto shall give notice
of the adoption of this resolut1on by publishing a Notice of
Proposed Local Improvement once 1n the Palo Alto Timee, a
daily newspaper published and circulated in said City, and by
posting same on or near the Counc11 Chamber door of said
Council, eai~ posting and publication to be had at least ten
days before said date or hearing.
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I hereby cert1fy the foz•ego1ng to be s true copy of
resolution adopted by the City COW1c11 of the City or Palo
Alto, California, at a regular meeting thareof hel~ on the
13th day of May, 1946, by the follo~1ng vote of the members thereof:
AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Bentrott, Blois,
Bolander, Bowden, Cashel, Cornish, Freedman, Linder,
Merner, Mitchell, Morten, R1charde, Tho1te, Thomas.
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