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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.
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(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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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