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RESOLUT!ON ___________ .,. N 0 • 1222.
OF INTENTION TO CONSTRUCT IMPROV'.!MB..'fr
PROJECT NO. .50-l STREIT LIOH'rINO RECONSTRUCTION
DISTRICT OD
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Palo Alto,
Cal1.forn1a, that :l.n ita opinion the public lnterest and conven-
ience require, and that it is the intention or s~id City Council
to order the following work to be done and improvements to be made 1n sa1d City, to-wit:
1. The improving of Middlefield Road from San Francisquito
Creek to Forest Avenue by the installation of suspended
lumina:tres complete with overhead wiring, ·guy strand, poles
and appurtenant equ1pment and fixturee.
2. The improving of University Avenue from Middlefield Road
to the westerly line of Crescent Park Subdivision, Palo Alto
Avenue from Alma Street to Marlowe Street, Poe S.treet and Bryant
Court from Bryant Street to Waverley Street, Ruth¥en Avenue frOQ
Waverley S~eet to Webster Street, Hawthorne Avenue from Alma
Street to Middlefield Road, ·Everett Av·eni.l.e from.. Alma Street to
Palo Alto Avenue, Lytton AYenue from Cowper Street to Seneca
Street, Hamilton Avenue from Cowper Street to Chaucer Street,
J?orest Avenulo! from Cowper Street t,' Hale Street, Marlowe Street
from Palo 'Alto Avenue to University Avenue, Chaucer Street from
Palo Alto Avenue to Hamilton Avenue, Hale Street, Seneca Street,
Guirida StreetJ Fulton Street. and Webster Street fr·om Palo Alto
Avenue to Foreat Avenue, Byron Street from Palo Alto Avenue to Lytton
Avenue and from University Avenue to Hamilton Avenue, Tasso
Street from Palo Alto Avenue to Hawthorne Ave~ue and from Lytton
Avenue to University Avenue, Cowper Street from Palo Alto Avenue
to Lytton Avenue and from Hamilton Avenue to Forest Avenue,
Kipling,_ Street, Ramona Street and High Street from Hawthorne
Avenue to Lytton Avenue, Waverley Street, Bryant Street, Emerson
Street and Alma Street fron: Palo Al t1) Avenue to Lytton Avenue by
the installation therein of susp~nded and/or mast-arm supported
luminar:!.es complete with overhead wiring guy strand, poles
and appurtenant equipment .. and fixture&.
4. Whenever any public way 1s herein referred to as running
between two public ways, or from or to any public way, the inter-
sections of t:-ie public ways referred to are included to the extent
that work shall be shown on the plans to be done thereon.
5. Sa1d streets, avenues, roads, courts and rights of way
are more partic11larly shown 1n the records of the office of the
County Recorder of Santa Clara County, Cal1!'ornia, and are shown
1;.pon the plans herein referred to and filed with the City Clerk
of said City.
6. Allor said work arid improvements are to be constructed
at the places and in the particular locations, of the forros,
s:l..zes~ dimensions, and materials, and to the 11nes and gradeo, and
at the elevations, as shown and delineated upon the plans, pro-
files and speeif1cat1ons made therefor and preliminarily ap-
proved by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
thereof duly held on the 13th day of March. 1950, and on file
:i.n the office of the C1 ty Engineer 1n the City Hall or said
City, re:terence to which is hereby made for a full and detailed
deecr1pt1on of said proposed work and for further part1culara.
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7. There is hereby excepted from the work above described
any of such work already done to l1ne and grade, and marked
excepted or shoWl"l not to be done on the plans, profiles and
3peciflcations.
8. Sald City Council doe3 hereby adopt and establish as
the grades for said work the grades and elevations shown upon
naid plans and profiles, to which reference 1s hereby made for a
description thereof. All such grades and elevations are in feet
and decimals thereof in reference to the official base and datum
of said City. In many cases said grades are new or different
from those formally established by the Council, and from the
surface of the ground.
9. All of said worJ( and improvements shall be done under
the supervision of the City Engineer of the City of P~lo Alto,
and all 3aid work and materials shall be done and furnished to
his satisfaction.
10. Notice is hereby g:'l.ven that, pursuant to Section 2 of
Article V of Ordinance No. 844 of said City commonly deslb-
nated "Palo Alto Improvement Procedure Coded 1 ·adopted January
13, 1941, the City Engineer of said City has filed with the City
Clerk of said City, accompanying the plans and spec1f1cat1ons
above referred to, a statement or the total and itemized estimated
cost of said improvements, inclusive of incidental costs and ex-
penses of this proceeding,stating therein separately the esti-
mated cost or each class of construction proposed, and the 1nc1-
dental expenses such as eng1neer1ng and inspection, and the coet
of preparing proceedings, the total estimated cost of which ls
stated as $55,754.00, which 1e open to public inspection.
11. Said contemplated work and ·improvements, in the opinion
of this Council, is of more than local or ordinary public "bene-
r1 t, and the cost and expense of doing said work and the expenses
incidental the:r-eto, ::3hall be made chargeable 1..i.pon the district
benefited thereby, which district shall conslat or the consoli-
dated and composite areas of all of the parcels or property
frontlng on said work, together with all properties fronting on
any street within one-half block or an intersection which 10
being improved hereunder, and the exterior boundaries of said
district are hereby declare·d to be the coterlilinous boundar1ea
of said composite and consolidated area. The properties so
benefited, and the boundaries thereof. are more particularly
shown on the map of' said assessment district on file in the
office of the City Engineer or said City to which reference is
hereby made :f.or a more deta:l.led description thereof.
12. Notice is further given that thereia on file with the
City Englneer a diagram or the assessment district showing each
lot or subdlvieion of land to be assessed and the dimensions
thereof, and an assessment of the estimated cost or sa:td work
and improvements upon said lots and parcels according to bene-
fits to be rece:tved from said work and improvements, each of
wh:Lch have corresponding numbers of each such lot or parcel.
13. All publicly owned property in said assessment dis-
trict, shall be assessed for 1ta share or the cost of said
benefits and the amount thereof paid in cash by the City. All
public streets, a1J.eys· and ways in use 1n the performance of the
p11bl1c function shall be omitted from the assessment hereinafter
to be made to cover the cost or said improvement.
14. Notice ia hereby given that serial bonds to represent
the unpaid assessments and bear interest at the rate of not to
exceed four per cent (4%) per annum, w111 be issued pursuant to
Pa~t 4, Bond Plan C of .Article IV of the Palo Alto Improvement
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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.
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of bonds,
nuance of
provement
Except as herein otherwi.ae provided for the issuance
all or the above proposed work shall be done in pur-
the provisions of Article V of said Palo Alto Im-
Procedure Code.
16. Proceedings have been had and taken by said Council
in full compliance with the provisions of Article I of ea1d Palo
Alto Improvement Procedure Code.
17. Notic~ is hereby g:tven that Monday, the 10th day of
July, 1950, at the hour of 7:30 o'~lock P. M. at the Council
Chambers of the City Col).nc11, City Hall, Palo Alto, California,
is hereby fixed as the time and place when and where any and
all persons having any objections to the proposed improve-
ments or against the district to be assessed for the costs
and expenses thereof, or to the City Engineer's est:tmate of the
costs and expenaes thereof, or against the grades at which said
wor~~ shall be done, or against the diagram or assessment, may
appear bef orc said Council and show cause why said proposed im-
provements should not be carried out 1n accordance with this
Resolution of Intention.
18. The Clerk of sa1d City shall cauoe this Resolution
of Intention to be published twice 1n the Palo Alto Times, a daily
newspaper, published and circulated in the City of Palo Alto,
which said paper 1e hereby designated for that purpose, and which
is hereby designated aa ~he newspaper in which all further
notices req:.iired to be made herein shall be published.
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I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of
resolution adopted by the City Council of the C1ty of Palo Alto,
California., at a regular meeting thereof held on the 12th day of
~une, 1950, by the following vote of th• members thereof;
AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen:
Bentrott, Bloie, Bolander, Bowden, Bower, Cashel, Cathcart,
Freedman, Gaspar, Hill, Mitchell, Montrouil, Morten, Wickett,
NOES, Councilmen: None.
ABSENT, Councilmen: Linder.
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