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RESOLUTION N0. lza
OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION
PROJECT NO. 48-16
WELLS AVE., ET AL
RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Palo Alto,
California, that it does hereby preliminarily determine that
the public convenience and necessity require, and that it intends
to order the following work to be done and improvements to be
made in and for said City. to -wit:
1. That Bryant Street between Forest Avenue and Eaibaroa-
dero Road, Forest Avenue between High Street and Bryant Street,
Homer Avenue between High Street and Bryant Street and 189.5 feet
southwesterly from Urban Lane, Charming Avenue and extension
thereof between Lucas Lane and Bryant Street, Lincoln Avenue
between Ramona Street and Bryant Street, E1ngeley Avenue between
Ramona Street and Bryant Street, Lucas Lane between Encino Avenue
and Charming Avenue extended, Wells Avenue for 240 feet south-
weeterly cf Urban Lane, Urban Lane between Homer Avenue and City
Warehouse No. 1, and unnamed eaeemente for utility purposes running
northwesterly from Channing Avenue extended where it intersects
Lucas Lane for about 280 feet, thence eouthweuterly about 380 feet
to the intersection of Urban Lane and Homer Avenue; be improved
by the construction of Portland cement concrete and corrugated
metal storm sewer pipe mains, red burnt brick or pre -cast cement
concrete manholes capped with cast iron frames, covers and dustpans,
and galvanized wrought iron steps, Portland cement concrete catch
basins capped with cast iron frames and gratings, Portland cement
concrete sidewalk corners, and work incidental thereto.
2. All of said work and improvements are to be con-
structed at the places and in the particular locations, of the
forms, sizes, dimensions and materials, and to the lines, grades,
and elevations as shown and delineated upon the plans, profiles and
specifications prepared therefor, and on file in the office of the
City Engineer in the City Hall of said City, reference to which
is hereby made for full and detailed descriptions of said proposed
work and for further particulars.
3. There is hereby excepted from the above work that
which is already done to the line and grade, and marked '"excepted"
or shown 'not to be done" on the plans, profiles and specifications.
4. The City Council does hereby adopt and establish as
the official grades for said work the grades and elevations shown
upon said plans, profiles and specifications. All such ;grades
and elevations are in feet and decimals thereof in reference to
the official base and datum of said City.
5. A11 of said work shall be done under the eupervision
of the City Engineer of the City of Palo Alto, and all of the said
work and materials shall be done and furnished to his satisfaction.
6. Said contemplated work and improvemente in the opinion
of this Council, is of more than local or ordinary public benefit,
and the costa and expenses of doing said work and the expenses
incidental thereto, shall be made chargeable upon the district
benefited thereby. The property :so benefited and the boundaries
thereof, are more particularly shown on the map of said assess-
ment district on file in the office of the City Engineer of said
City, to which reference is hereby made for a more detailed
description thereof.
7. All public etreeta, alleys and ways in use in the
performance of a public tun :ion shall be orttted from the
assessment hereinafter to be made to cover the costs of said im-
provements.
8. The City of Palo Alto will contribute in cash
$438.36 as its share of the cost and expense of said work to be
done within the assessment area of the City Library, and
$1,568.31 as its share of the cost and expense of said work to
be done within the assessment area of City Warehouse No. 1.
9. Notice is hereby given that aerial bonds to repre-
sent the unpaid assessments and bear interest at the rate of not
to exceed four per cent (4%) per annum, will be issued pursuant
to Part 4, Bond Plan C of Article IV of the Palo Alto Improve-
ment Procedure Code, the last installment of which shall mature
nine (9) years from the second day of July next succeeding ten
months from their date.
10. Except as herein otherwise provided for the issuance
of bonds, all of the above proposed work shall be done in pur-
suance of the provisions of Article V of said Palo Alto Improve-
ment Procedure Code.
11. Notice is hereby given that Monday, the llth day
of October, 1948, at the hour of 7:30 o'clock P.M., California
Daylight Savings Time, in the Council Chambers of the City Council
of said City in the City Hall of said City, are nereby fixed as
the time and place when and where any and all persons interested
may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the City Council
ehould not find and determine that the public convenience and
necessity require the improvements described and referred to in
this resolution, without further compliance with the Special Assess-
ment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931.
12. The Clerk of the City of Palo Alto shall give notice
of the adoption of this resolution by publishing a notice of
proposed local improvement once in the Palo Alto Times, a daily
newspaper published and circulated in said City, and posting same
on or near the Council Chamber door of said Council, said posting
and publication to be at least ten days before said date of hearing.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of
resolution adopted by the City Council of the City of Palo Alto,
California, at a regular meeting held on the 13th day of September,
1948, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES, Councilmen: Bentrott, Blois, Bolander, Bowden,
Gaspar, Linder, Montrouil, Morten,
Thoits, Vic.kett.
NOr:S, Councilmen: Cashel.
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ABSENT, Councilmen: Freedman, Mithcell.
NOT VOTING: Nerner.
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