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OF IliTENTION TO MAKE ACQUISITIONS
AND IMPROVEMENTS
NORTH CALIFORNIA AVENUE., ET AL
ACQUISITION AND IMPROVBMENT
PROJECT 52-10
AASOLVXD, by the Council of the City or Palo Alto, California,
th"t in its opinion the public interest., convenience, and neces-
sity require, and that 1t is the intention of said. Council to
order the !'ollowing acqu1s1t;ione to be made., work ·:;o be done and
improvements.· t:.o be aade in said city, tc-w1 t:
1. (a) The widening of North California Avenue by acquir-
ing an easement 10 feet wide along the Southeasterly side thereof
from Barbara Drive to Embarcadero Road and along the Northwesterly
side thereof from l.ouis Road to Greer Road.
(b) The widening or Lorna Verde Avenue by acquiring an
easement 10 feet wide along the Southeasterly side thereof from
Middlefield Road to Ross Road and from a point approximately 600
feet Southwesterly of Louis Road to Louis Road., and along the
Northwesterly side thereof from Middlefield Road to Louis Road,
and 15 feet wide along the Southeasterly side thereof from Louis
Road northeasterly 130 feet more or less.
(c) The widening of Rosa Road by a':qu1r1ng an easement
10 feet wide on either side thereof from Colorado Avenue to Lorna Verde Avenue.
(6) The widening of I.ouis Road by acquiring an easement
5 feet wide on either side thereof from Colorado Avenue South-
easterly 267 feet, more or less, e;nd·from Matadero Canal to a
point approximately 1225 feet southeasterly of Loma Verde Aven~e,
except the portion thereof fronting on Sterling Gardens No. 2 S'.lbdlvision.
(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 inter-
SI?ction corners to provide sidewnlk returns.
2. (a) The 1mp~ov1ng or the Southeasterly one-half of
North California Avenue-from Barbara Drive to Louis Road and for
1 ta full width from Louis Road to ··reer Road, Louis Road from Mat-
adero Canal Southeasterly 360 :t•eet more or less and from Lorna
Verde Avenue to a point approximately 1225 feet southeasterly
thereof, the southwesterly one-halt• of Louis Road from a point
360 feet more or less Southeasterly or Matadero Canal to Lorna
Verde Avenue, and Rosa Road from Colorado Avenue to Lorna Verde
Avenue, all as proposed to be widened, by grading, removing trees, _
bushes and existing structures, constructing or reconstructing \ J
Portland Cement concrete curbs and gutters, s1dewalke, storm water J
catch basins, manholes and drain pipe, constructing crushed rock
base pavement with plant mix wearing s~1rface, constructing vitri-
fied clay pipe sanitary sewer services, copper or galvanized iron
pipe water aerv1cea, and wrapped steel pipe gas services, by in-
stalling electroliers with conduit, ~onductorcableand pull boxes •
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and by constructing driveway aprons to improved lots where the
sidewalk is separated from the curb, and the improving or Ross
Road from a point approximately 110 reet northwesterly or Clara
Drive to a point approximately 30 feet southeasterly of Clara
Drive by constructing vitrified clay pipe sanitary sewer main
and cleanout.
(b) The improving of North California Avenue from Mid-
dlefield Road to Newell Road by grading, removing trees, bushes
and existing structures, conetr'.lCting cruehed rock balJe paveaaent
with plant mix wearing surface, storm water catch basins, drain
PiPe, and cross gutters at driveways, and by installing electro-
lier8 w1 th condu1 t, conductor cable, pull boxee and caps.·
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(c) The improving of North ~alitornia Avenue from Newell
Road to Barbara Drive by grading, removing trees, bushes and
existing structures, constructing or reconstructing Portland
Cement concrete curbs and gutters on the Northwesterly side
thereof and by cor1struct1ng crushed rock base pavement w1 th
plant mix wearing surface.
{d) The improving or the Southeasterly one-half or
North California Avenue from Greer Road to Embarcadero Road, the
Southwesterly one-half of Greer Road from Embarcadero Road to
North California Avenue, Colorado Avenue f~om Louis Road to Sandra
Place, Lorna Verde Avenue from Middlefield :Road to a point 150
feet, more or less, }lortheaeterly or Lcuis Road, Louis Road from
Colorado Avenue S011theasterly 270 feet, more or less, Ramona
Street and Alma Street from Matadero Canal to Loma Verde Avenue.
and Emerson Street from El Carmelo Avenue to Lorna Verde Avenue,
all as proposed to be widened, by grading, removing trees) bushes
and existing structures, constructing or reconstructing Portland
Cement Concrete curbs, guttere and sidewalks, constructing crt~shed
rock base pavement with plant mix wearing surf~ce, constructing
vitrified clay pipe san1 t:ary eewer services, copper or galvanized
iron p1pe water services and wrapped steel~pe gas services, and
by installing electroliere, with conduit, conductor cable, and
pull boxes, and by constructing driveway aprons to improve lots
where the sidewalk is sep~rated from the curb.
t (e) The improving of the Northwe5terly side or :lorth
California Avenue-.from Or,eer Road to Embarcadero Road, Colorado
Avenue from Sandra Place to Greer Road, and Louis Road rrom a
point approximately 270 feet Southeasterly of Colorado Avenue to
)~tadero Canal, all as p~oposed to be widened by grading, remov-
ing ti-eee, bushes and ex1st1.ng structures, constructing crushed
rock base pavement with plant mix wearing surface, constructing
vitrified clay pipe sanitary sewer services, copper or galvanized
irorl pipe wat(:r services, and wrapped steel pipe gs.s services,
constructing driveway aprons to improve lots where the sidewalk
is separated from the curb, and by installing electroliers, with
conduit, conductor cable, and pull boxes.
(f) The improving of the Northeasterly side of Louis
Road as proposed to be widened from a point approximately 360
feet Southeasterly or Matadero Canal to Lorna Verde Avenue by
grading1 removing trees, bushes and existing dtructures, con-
structing cruohed rock base pavement with plant mix wearing sur-
race, and constructing vitrified clay pipe sanitary sewer services,
copper 6r galvanized iron pipe water servicee, and wrapped steel
pipe gas services.
(g) The construction or all work auxiliary to any or
the above and which may be required to carry out the same.
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3. Whenever any public. way is herein referred to as running
between two public ways, or from or to any public way, the 1nter-
eections of the public ways referred to are included to the ex-
tent that work shall be shown on the plana to be done thereon.
4. Said streets, avenues, road2, courts and rights or way
are mo~e particularly shown 1n the reeorde or the office or the
County Recorder or Santa Clara County, California, and are shown
upon the plane herein referred to and filed with the City Clerk or said City.
5. All of 3a1d work and improvements are to be conetructed
at the place~ a.m1 in the particular location:!t, or the forme. s1zee
and d1mene1one and materials, and to the lines and grades, and at
the elevations, as shown and delineated upon the plane, profiles
and spec1fica·t1one made therefor and preliminarily approved by the
City Council or sa1d City of Palo Alto at a regular meeting there-
of dvly held on the 26th day of Jarmary, 1953, and on file in the
office of the Clerk or said City, reference to which is hereby
made for a full and detailed description of said proposed work and
~or further particulars.
6. There 1o hereby excepted from the work above described
any of s~ch work already done to line and grade, and marked "ex-
cepted" or shown not to be done on the plans, profiRB and spec-
1f1cat1ons.
7. Said City Council does hereby adopt and establish as the
official grades for said work the grades and elevations shown
upon 5aid plans and profiles, to which reference is hereby made
for a description thereof. All such grades and elevations are
1n feet and decimals thereof in reference to the official base
and datum of said city. In many cases aa1d grades are new or
different from those formerly established by the Council and from
the surface or the ground.
8. All of said work and improvements shall be done under
the supervision of the City Engineer or the City of Palo Alto_,
and all said work and materials shall be done and furnished to
hia satisfaction.
9. A map or plat of the lands and improvements necessary or
convenient to be taken for such proposed improvement has been
.f.':lled with the C1 ty Clerk and a.pproved by the Ci t~T Council, to
which reference is hereby made for further particulars.
10. Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to Section 2 of
~r·t1c1e V or Ordinance No. 844 of said City, commonly designated
'Palo Alto Improvement Procedure Code," adopted January 13, 1941,
the City Engineer of said City has filed w1th the City Clerk of
said City, accompanying the plans and specifications above rew
rerred to, a statement of the total and itemized estimated cost
or said acquisitions and improvements, inclusive of incidental
coats and expenses of this proceeding, stating therein separately
the estimated cost of each class of construction proposed, and of
dach parcel or land or improvement proposed to be acquired, the
incidental expenses such as engineering, inspection and the cost ·
1 ot preparing proceedings, the total estimated cost of which is 1
stated as $311,777.72 of' which it is estimated that the C~.ty 1
will cont~ibute $2,382.20, which ie open to public inspection. --
11. Said contemplated acquis1t:onJ and improvements, 1n the
opinion of this Council, are of more than local or ordinary pub-
lic benefit, and the coat and expenses of making said acquisitions
and of doing said work and the expenses incidental thereto, shall
be made chargeable upon the d!strlct benefited thereby, which
district shall consist of the consolidated and composite areas of
all of the parcels or property fronting on said work, together with
all properties fronting on any street within one-half block or an
intersection which is being improved, together with all property extend-
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ing on either side of the proposed acquisitions a distance or
one-half block or 250 feet whichever 1e smaller, together
with all property included w!thin a drainage area served by
the drainage f'ac1lit1es propoaed to be construeted 1 and the
exterior boundaries of said district are hereby declared to
be the coterminous 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 1n the office or the City Clerk, to which reference is hereby
made for a more detailed description thereof.
12. All public streets, alleys and ways in USE• in the per-
formance or the public function shall be omitted from the assess-
ment hereinafter to be made to cover the coat or said 1mp~ovement.
13. Notice 1e further glven that there 1a on file with the
City Clerk a diagram of the assessment district showing each lot
or eubd1v1s1on of land to be assessed and the d1meno1one thereof,
and an assessment of the estimated cost or said work, acquisition
and improvement upon said lots and parcels according to benefita
to ~e received from said work, acqu1~1tion and improvements, ea~h
of ~ntch have corresponding numbers for each such lot or parcel.
J.l~. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent
the unpaid assessments and bear interest at the rate or not to
exceed six per cent {6~) per annum, will be issued pursuant to
Part 4, Bond Plan Cor Article IV or the Palo Alto Improvement
Procedure Code, the la&t installment of which shall mature nine (9) yeare from the second day of July next succeeding ten months
from the11:" date.
15. Exc~pt as herein otherwise provided for the issuance
of bonds, all or the above proposed work shall be done in pur-
suance or the provisions of Article V of said Palo Alto Improve-
ment Procedure Code.
16. Proceedings have been h~d and taken by said Council
in full con1pliance with the prov1::1cns of Article I of said
Palo Alto Improvement Procedure Code.
17. Notice is hereby given that Monday 1 the 2nd day of
March, 1953, at the hour of 7:30 o'clock P.M. at the CounciJ.
Chambers of the City Council of said City, in the City Hall of
said City of Palo Alto, is hereby fixed as the time and place
when and where any and all persons having any objections to the
proposed acquisitions and improvements or aga!nr.t the d1etr1ct
to be assessed for the costs and expenses thereof, or to the
City Engineer's estimate or the costs and expenses thereof, or
against the grades at which said work shall be done, or against
the d1aaram or assessment, may appear before said Council and
show cause why said proposed acquisitions and 1mprovements should
not be carried out 1n accordance with this resolution or intention.
18. The Clerk or said City shall cause this resolution of
intention to be published twice in the Palo Alto Times, a daily
newspaper, published and circulated in the City of Palo Alto,
"''hich ~.'lid paper is hereby des1gnated for that purpose, and which
ls hereby designat•~d as the ne"rspa.per 1n whtch all further no-
tice~. required to be made herein shall be publ13hed.
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I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of reaolu.-
tlon adopted by the City Council of the City o~ Palo AJ.to
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California, at a regular meeting t:1ereor held. on the 26th day
of January, 1953, by the following vote or the members thereof;
A YES 1 and in ra vor thereof, CourACilmen:
Bishop, Blois, Drysdale, lUll, H ... ston, Jackson, Marshall,
Miller, Mitchell, Montrouil, Simpson, Wells, Wickett.
NOES, Co~mcilman: Cal!shel.
ABSENT: Councilmen: None.
ld~~LLctd_ Cfty\:Terr;or-tne City or Palo Alto
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