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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 239828 RB!!01~!!.Q! !~· ~ OP PRILIMINARY DBTBRMINATION PROJBCT NO. 52-10 NORTH CALIFORNIA AVKNUR, BT AL. ACQUISITION AND IMPROVEMINT RESOLVED~ by the Council or the City of Palo Alto, Ca11t- orn1a, that 1t does hereby preliminarily determine that the public convenience and neoees1ty require, and that 1t intends to order the following acqu.isi tiona to be had and improvements to be made 1n and for said City, to-wit: 1. (a) The widening of North California Avenue by acquiring an easement 10 feet wide along the Southeaaterly eide thereof from Bar~ara Drive to Embarcadero Road and along the Northweaterly side thereof from Louie Road to Greer Road. (b) The widening or Loma Verde Avenue by acquiring an easement 10 feet wide along the Southeasterly side thereof from Middlefield Road to Ross Road arid rrom a point approximately 600 feet Southwesterly or Louis Road to Louis Road~ and along the Northwesterly side thereof from M1dd~1eld Road to Loui8 Road, and 15 feet wide along thP. Southeasterly side thereof from Louis Road Northeasterly 130 feet more or less. (c) The widening of Rosts Road by acqu1'r1ng an easement 10 feet wide on either side thereof from Colorado Avenue to Loma Verde Avenue. (d) The widening of Louis Road by acquiring an easement 5 feet wide on either side thereof from Colorado Avenue South:- easterly 267 feet~ more or less, and from ~tadero Canal to a point approximately 1225 feet southeasterly or Loma Verde Avenue, except the portion thereof fronting on Sterling Gardena No. 2 Subdivision. (e) The widening of Colorado Avenue by acquiring an easement 10 feet wide on the Southeasterly side thereof from Louis Road Northeasterly 278 feet, more or less. (f) The acquisition of additional easements at intersec- tion corners to provide sidewalk returns. 2. (a) The improving or the Southeasterly one-half of North California Avenue from Barbara Drive to Louis Road and for ita full width from Louis Road to Greer Road, Louis Road from Mat- adero Canal Southeasterly 360 reet more or less and from Loma Verde Avenue to a point approximately 1225 feet southeasterly thereof, the southwesterly one-half of Louis Road from a point 360 feet more or leas Southeaateriy or Matadero Canal to Loma Verde Avenue, and Ross Road from Colorado Avenue to Loma Verde Avenue; all as propooed to be widened, by grading1 removing trees 1 bushes and existing structures, constructing or reconstructing Portland Cement concrete curbs and gutters, sidewalks, storm water catch basins, manholes and drain pipe, constructing crushed rock base pavement with plant mix wearing surface, constructing vitri- fied clay pipe sanitary sewer services, copper or galvanized iron pipe water services, atH1 wrapped steel pipe gas services, by in'- stalling electroliers with conduit, conductor cable and pull boxes and by conatructing driveway aprons to improve lots Where the side- walk is separated from the curb, and the improving of Ross Road from a point approximately 110 feet Northwesterly or Clara Drive to a point approximately 30 feet southeasterly of Clara Drive by con- structing vitrified clay pipe sanitary sewer main and cleanout. 'j I' t • • I I I ·~··· -····-~••>•N~-----···------ (b) The improving ot North California Avenue from Mid- dlefield Road to Newell Road by grading, removing trees, bushes and existing structur.a, constructing crushed rock base pavement with plant lllix wearing surface, storm water catch basins, drain pipe, ant oroas gutters at driveways, and by installing electro- liera with conduit, conductor cable, pull boxea and cape. (e) The improving or North C&l1forn1a Avenue from Newell Roac1 to Barbara Drive by grading, removing trees, bushes and existing structures, constructing or reconstructing Portland Cement concrete curbs and gutters on the Northwesterly aide thl!reof and by constructing crushed rock baar. pavement with plant mix wearing surface. (d) The improving or the Southeasterl·y one-half or North California Avenue from Greer Road to Bsbareadero Road, the Southwesterly one-half or Greer Road from lmbarcadero Road to North California Avenue, Colorado Avenue troll Louis Road to Sandr•a Place, Loma Verde Avenue from Middlefield Road to a point 150 teet, more or less, Northea"terly of IA>'u1a Road, Louis Road from Colorado Avenue Southeasterly 270 feet, more or leas, Ramona Street and Alma Street from Matadero Canal to Loma Verde Av~nue, and Emerson Street trom El Carmelo Avenue to Loma Verde Avenue, all as propoeed to be widened, by grading, removing trees, bushes and existing structures, ~onstructing or reconstruct- ing Portland Cement Concrete curb&, gutters and sidewalks, constructing cruehed rock base pavement with plant mix wearing surface, constructing v1t~if1ed clay P1Pe sanitary sewer services, copper or galvanized iron pipe water s6rvices and wrapped steel pipe gas services, and by installing electroliers, with conduit, conductor cable, and pull boxes, and by constructing driveway aprona to improve lots where the sidewalk is separated from the curb. (e) The improving of the Northwesterly side or North California Avenue from Oreer Road to Embarcadero Road, Colorado Avenue from Sandra Place to Greer Road, and Louis Road from a point approximately 270 feet Southeasterly of Colorado Avenue to Matadero Canal, all as proposed to be widened by grading, removing trees, buoh~s and existing structures, constructing crushed rock base pavement with plant mix wearing surfac~, constructing vitrified clay pipe sanitary sewer services, copper or galvanized iron pipe water services, and wrapped steel pipe gas services, constructing driveway aprons to improve lota where the sidewalk 1s separated from the curb, and by installing electrol1ers, with conduit, conductor cable, and pull boxes. (f) Tho improving or the Northeasterly side of Louis Road as proposed to be widened from a point approximately 360 feet Southeasterly of Mata~ero Canal to Loma Verde Avenue by grading, removing trees, bushes and existing structures, construct- ing crushed rock base p~vement with plant ~ix wearing surface, and constructing vitrified clay pipe sanitary sewer services, copper or galvanized iron pipe water services, and wrapped steel pipe gas services. (g) The construction or all work auxiliary to any of the above and which may be required to carry out the same. 3. All of said acqu1a1 tiona arid improvements are to be had and constructed at the placea and in the particular loca- tions, or the forma, sizes, dimensions and materials, and to the lines, grades, and elevations as shown and delineated upon the plane, profiles and specifications prepared therefor, and on file in the office of the City Bngineer in the City Hall ot said City, reference to which 1a hereby made tor a full and detailed description of said proposed acquisitions and 1•provements, and for further particulars. 29 I ! i 1 i ' I f } ~ • • 30 4. There 1n hereby excepted from the above work that which is already done to 11ne and grade and marked excepted or shown not to be do11ie on the plans, profiles and spec1t1cationa. 5. 'l'he City Council does hereby adopt and establish as the official grades for said work the grades and elevations shown upon said plana, profiles and epec1ficat1ona. All sueh grades and elevations are in feet and deci.ala thereof in rer- 8renee to the official base and datu. ot said City. 6. Notice is hereby given or the tact that in many cases said work and improvements will ~ring the~n1shed surface of the improved streets to a grade different from the surface or such streets as they now exist, and that to said extent said grades are hereby changed and that said work will be done to said changed gradea. 7. All or said work shall be done under the super·v1a1on or the City Engineer or the City or Palo Alto, and all of said work and materials shall be done and furnished to hia eat1e- fact1 n. 8. Said contemplated acquisitions and 1mprovement.s, in the opinion or this Council, are or more than local or ordina:ry public benefit, and the cost and expenses of making said aequiai•tions and or doing said work and the expenses incidental thereto, a:hall be made chargeable upon the district benefited thereby, whlch district shall consist ot the consolidated and composite areas or all of the parcels or property fronting on said work, t~gether with all pr~perties fronting on any street within one-half bloek or an intersection which ia being improved, together with all property extending on either aide or ~he proposed acquisitions a distance of one-half block or 250 feet Whichever is smaller, together with all property included within a drainage area served by the drainage facilities proposed to be constructed, and the exterior boundaries of said district are hereby declared to be the co- terminous boundaries or. said composite and consolidated area. The property so benefited, and the boundaries thereof, are more particularly shown on the map or said assessment district on file 1.n the ·office of the C1 ty Clerk, to which reference is hereby made for a more detailed description thereof. 9. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent the unpaid assessments and bear interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent {6~) per annu~, will be issued purauant to Part 4, Bond Plan C of 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 next succeeding ten months from their date. 10. Except as herein otherwise provided for the issuance · or bonds, all of the above proposed work shall be done 1n pur- suance or the provisions or Article v or said Palo Alto Improvement Procedure CQ.de. 11. Notice 18 hereby given that Monda7, the 26th day of January, 1953, at the hour of 7:30 otclock P.M. at the Council Chambers or the City Council or said City 1n the City lmll of said City are hereby fixed as the time and place when and where an:r and all persons interested may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the City Council should not find and determine that the public convenience and necessity require th$ improve- ments described and referred to in this resolution, without further compliance with the Special Assessment Investigation~ Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931. 12. The Clerk or the City of Palo Alto shall give not1ee or the adoption of this resolution by publishing a Hot1ce or proposed Local Improvement once 1n the Palo Alto T1mee, a daily . I :J newe~aper publiehed and circulated in said City, and by posting same on or near the Council Chamber door or said Council, said posting and publication to be had at least ten days before said date or hearing. * * * • * I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy or resolution adopted by the City Council. or the City of Palo Alto, California, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 12th day or January, 1953, by the following vote or the memberu thereof: AYIS~ and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Bishop, Blois, Hill, Huston, Jackson, Miller, Mitchell, Montrou11, Simpson, Wells, Wickett. NOES, Councilmen: None. ABSENT, Councilmen: Bower, Cashel, Drysdale, Marshall. ~ .. , ~ ~-·~ -1~ ;/-R ' "' -eity ~c o~ty<r Pao 1fu v APPROVBD: /.~ ~ ~ • ~~ ,,/ MSMacy:yoDrr~EdJI.---- ':31 I I ·I 1 l ) I l j l ..