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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 3760RESOLUTION NO. 8160 A RESOLUTION OP PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION AND OF INTENTION EL CAMINO REAL WIDENING PROJECT NO. 64-1 RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Palo Alto, California, that it does hereby preliminarily determine that the public inter- est, convenienne and necessity require and that it intends tc order the work to be done, acquisitions and improvements to be made, as follows, to -wit: 1 . The acquisition of easements necessary to obtain a uniform right-of-way width of 120 feet, including the acquisition of etripa of land in excess of the land actually needed for street purposes lying outside of the proposed 120 -foot right-of-way and necessary to be acquired in order to avoid severance damage, for the purpose of providing on -street parking areas for local use and benefit along E1 Camino Real from Matadero Creek to the southerly City limits of the City of Palo Alto, and the improving thereof by grading, removing trees, bushes and existing structures, constructing or reconstructing Portland cement concrete curbs, gutters, sidewalks and driveway aprons, constructing base pave- ment and wearing surface, the installation of street lighting facilities, storm drain pipe, catch basins, inlet structures and appurtenances, together with the acquisition of all easements and the construction of all improvements auxiliary to any of the above and necessary to complete the same. 2. All of the blocks, streets and alleys herein mentioned are shown on maps of record in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Clara County, State of California, and shall be shown on the plans herein referred to and to be filed with the City Clerk of aaid City. 3. Whenever any public way is herein referred to as running between two public ways, or from or to any public way, the inter- sections of the public ways referred to are included to the extent that work shall be shown on the plans to be done therein. 4. All of said work and improvements are to be constructed at the places and in the particular locations, of the forma, sizes, dimensions and materials, and at the lines, grades and elevations as shown and delineated upon the plans, profiles and specifications to be made therefor, as hereinafter provided. la • • • • • I 1 1 0 5. There is t, be exoepted from the work described any of such work already done to line and grade and marled exoepted or shown not to be done an said plans, profiles and specifications. 6. Said Council does hereby adopt and establish as the official grades for said work the grades and elevations to be shown upon said plane, profiles and specifications. All such grades and elevations are to be in feet and decimals thereof with reference to the datum plane of the City of Palo Alto. 7. Notice is hereby given of the fact that in many oases said work and improvement will bring the finished work to a grade different from that formerly existing, and that to said extent said grades are hereby changed and that said work will be done to said changed grades. 8. The descriptions of the acsaiaitions and improvements and the termini of the work contained in this Resolution are general in nature. All items of work do not necessarily extend for the full length of the description thereof. The plans and profiles of the work and the maps and description's, as contained in the Engineer's report, shall be controlling as to the correct and detailed description thereof. 9. The City proposes to enter into a joint powers agree- ment with the State of California, which agreement will provide, among other things, for the supplying by the State of plans and specifications for the improvements, for the performance of the work by the State, for the payment of a portion of the cost of the work by the State and of a portion by the City, and for the delegation by the State to the City that part of the power and jurisdiction vested by law in the State Department of Public Works, Division of Highways, which relates to the control of park- ing and local traffic movement along the widened street section. 10. Said contemplated acquisitions and improvements, in the opinion of this Council, are of more than local or ordinary public • • benefit, and said Council does hereby make the coats and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements, other than the portions thereof to be hereafter determined to be contributed by the City or paid by the State of California, chargeable upon the district benefited thereby, the exterior boundaries of which are deacribed as the coterminous exterior boundaries of the compoeite and con- solidated area of all parcels of property fronting on said pro- posed acquisitions and improvements together with other adjacent areas benefited by said storm drainage facilities, which bounda- ries are more particularly shown on a map thereof identified ae "Map Showing Exterior Boundaries of the Proposed Assessment District, E1 Camino Read, Project No. ‘fl.-/ ", on file in the office of the City Clerk, which indicates by a boundary line the extent of the territory included in the proposed district and which shall govern for all details as to the extent of the assess- ment district. 11. Said Council further declares that all public streets and highways, lanes and alleys within said assessment district in use in the performance of a public function as such, shall be omitted from the assessment hereafter to be made to cover the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements. 12. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent unpaid assessments, and bear interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent (6%) per annum, will be issued hereunder in the manner provided in the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 (Division 10 of the Streets and Highways Code), the last installment of which bonds shall mature not to exceed nine (9) years from the second day of July next succeeding ten months from their date. 13. Except as herein otherwise provided for the issuance of bonds, all of said work shall be done as provided in the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 (Division 12 of the Streets and highways Code), and Section 17 of Article XIII of the Constitution of the State of California. 14. Said acquisitions and improvements are hereby referred to the City Engineer of said City, as the officer having oharge and control of the acquisition and construction of publio improve- ments in and for said City of the kind desoribed herein, being a competent person employed by said City for that purpose; and said City Engineer is hereby directed to make and file with the City Clerk of said City a report in writing, presenting the following: a) Maps and descriptions of the lands, easements and rights to be acquired; b) Plana and specifications of the proposed improve- ments to be made pursuant to this Resolution; c) Engineer's estimate of the total posts and expenaue of said acquisitions and improvements and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith; d) Diagram showing the assessment district above re- ferred to, and also the boundaries and dimensions of the respective subdivisions of land within said district as the same existed at the time of the passage of this Resolution, each of which subdivi- sions shall be given a separate number upon said diagram; e) A proposed assessment of the total amount of the coats and expenses of the proposed acquisitions and improvements upon the several subdivisions of land within said district in proportion to the eetimated benefits to be received by such sub- divisions, respectively, from said acquisitions and improvements, and of the expenses incidental thereto. 15. If any exoess shall be realized from the aasessment it shall be used, in such amounts as the Council may determine, in acoordance with the previsions of law, for one or more of the following purposes: a) Transfer to the general fund of the City, provided that the amount of any auch transfer shall not exceed the lesser of $1,000 or 5% of the total amount expended from the improvement fund; 4 • • i 0 • b) As a credit upon the assessment and any supplemental assessment; or c) For the maintenance of the improvements. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of a resolution duly passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Palo Alto, California, at a meeting thereof held on the loth day of vote of the members thereof: August , 1964, by the following AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Arnold, Eeahrs, Byxbee, Comstock, Cooley, Cresap, Debs, Dias, Flint, Rodgers, Rohr', Rus, Woodward. NOES, Councilmen: none ABSENT, Councilmen: Porter, Zweng V-c.-� Cit Clerk o ht a '-i.il�� of Palo Alto Y Y 5 i •