HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 3777A RESOLUTION OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION AND OF INTENTION
OLD TRACE ROAD, ET AL.
PROJECT NO. 64-4
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RESOLVED, by the Counoil of the City of Palo Alto, California, as
follows:
1. That it does hereby preliminarily determine, that the public
interest, convenience and necessity require, and that it intends to
order the following work to be done, acquisitions and improvements to
be made, to -wit:
a) The improving of that portion of Manuela Avenue within
the City limits of the City of Palo Alto, from the Southern Pacific
Railroad right-of-way to the southerly City limits of said City,
Oak Hill Avenue from Arastradero Road to Mesa Avenue, Old Trace
Road from Arastradero Road to its southerly terminus, Mesa Avenue
from Manuela Avenue to its southerly terminus, Manuela Court from
Manuela Avenue to Old Trace Road, Robb. Road from Manuela Avenue
westerly for its entire length, and an unnamed street running east -
went from the southerly terminus of Old Trace Road, by the acqui-
sition of easements necessary to achieve standard street widths
and turnaround areas, and by the construction therein of grading,
base pavement and wearing surfaoe, Portland cement concrete curbs
and gutters, with sidewalk on Manuela Avenue, sanitary sewer mains,
wye branches, laterals, manholes and appurtenances, storm drain
pipe, catoh basins, manholes and appurtenances, domestic water
mains, valves, hydrants, services and appurtenances, any street
lighting facilities.
b) The opening of Ditz Road from Old Trace Road northerly
about 250 feet, and the opening of an unnamed street from Manuela
Avenue westerly about 650 feet, and the opening of a series of
streets within the area bounded generally by Manuela Avenue, the
proposed Expreasway, the easterly extension of Manuela Court, and
the improving thereof by grading and the oonstruotion therein of
base pavement and wearing surfaoe, Portland cement concrete curbs
and gutters, sanitary sewer mains, wye branches, laterals and
appurtenances, storm drain pipe, catch basins, manholes and
appurtenanoes, domestia water mains, valves, hydrants, aervioes
and appurtenanoes, and street lighting facilities.
c) .The acquisition of all lands and easements and the con-
struction of all work auxiliary to any of the above and neoessary
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 here-
in referred to and to be filed with the City Clerk of said City.
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3. Whenever any publio way is herein referred to as running
between two public ways, or from or to any public ways, the intersec-
tions of the public ways referred to are inoluded to the extent that
work shall be shown on the plane to be done herein.
4. All of said work and improvements are to be constructed at
the places and in the particular locations, of the forma, sizes, dimen-
sions 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.
5. There is to be excepted from the work above described any of
such work already done. to line and grade and marked excepted or shown
not to be done on 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
plans, profiles and specifications. All euoh 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 acid grades are
hereby ohanged and that said work will be done to said changed grades.
8. The descriptions of the acquisitions and improvements and the
termini of the work oontained in this Resolution are general in nature.
All items of work do not necessarily extend for the full length of the
desoription thereof. The plans and profiles of the work and the maps
and descriptions of the acquisitions, as contained in the Engineer's
report, shall be controlling as to the correct and detailed descrip-
tion thereof.
9. Said contemplated acquisition and improvements, in the
opinion of this Council, are of more than local or ordinary public
benefit, and said Counoil does hereby melee the posts and expenses
thereof ohargaabla upon an assessment district; whioh district said
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Council declares to be the district benefited by said acquisitions and
improvements, and the exterior boundaries of which are described as the
area bounded northerly by Arastradero Road, easterly by the Southern
Paoiflo Railroad right-of-way, the proposed Expressway and the easterly
city limits of the City of Palo Alto, southerly by the southerly City
limits, and westerly by the westerly City limits, exclusive of the moat
southerly parcel within the above boundaries, all as more particularly
shown on a map thereof on file in the office of the City Clerk, which
indicates by a boundary line the extent of the territory lnoluded within
the assessment district and which shall govern for all details as to
the extent of said proposed district.
10. Said Council further deolaree that all public streets, high-
ways, lanes and alleys within said assessment distriot in use in the
performanoo of a publio function as suoh, shall be omitted from the
assessment hereafter to be made to cover the oasts and expenses of said
acquisitions and improvements.
11. Notioe is hereby given that serial bonds to represent unpaid
assessments and bear interest at the rate of not to exoeed six per oent
(6%) per annum, will be issued hereunder in the manner provided in
Bond Plan B, Article 3 of Chapter 6 of the Palo Alto Improvement Pro-
cedure Code, the last installment of which bonds shall mature not to
exceed nine (9) years from the second day of July next\suooeeding ten
months from their date.
12. .Exoept as herein otherwise provided for the issuance of
bonds, all of said work shall be done as provided in Articles 1 and 4
of Chapter 5 of said Code, and Section 17 of Article XIII of the Con-
stitution of the State of California.
13. Said acquisitions and improvements are hereby referred to the
City Engineer of said City, as the officer having charge and control
of the acquisition and construction of public improvements in and for
said City of the kind described herein, being a competent person
employed by said City for that purpose, and said Engineer is hereby
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directed to make and file with the City Clerk of said City a report in
writing, presenting the following:
a) Plane and epeoifioations of the proposed improvements
to be made pursuant to this Resolution;
b) Engineer's estimate of the total coats and expenses of
said acquisitions and improvements and of the incidental expenses in
connection therewith;
o) Diagram showing the assessment distriot above referred
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, eaoh of which subdivisions shall be given
a separate number upon said diagram;
d) A propoaod assessment of the costs and expenses of the
proposed acquisitions and improvements upon the several subdivision of
land within said district in proportion to the estimated benefits to be
received by suoh subdivisions, respectively, from said acquiaitiona and
improvements, and of the expenses incidental thereto; and
e) Maps and descriptions of the lands and easements to be
acquired.
14. 11' any excess shall be realized from the assessment it shall
be spent for the maintenance of said acquisitions and improvements,
unless the Counoil shall hereafter determine that said amount, or any
part thereof, shall be applied as a credit to each assessment herein.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and
correct copy of a resolution duly passed and adopted by the
Council of the City of Palo Alto, California, at a meeting
thereof held on the 5th day of October
195 4 , by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen:
Arnold., Beehrs, Byxbee. Comstock, Cooley, Cresap,
MOW Dias, shat, Rodgers, Rohrs, Ras, Woodward.
NOES, Councilmen: none
ASSENT, Councilmen: Porter, Zweng
ABSTAINING. Debt
APPROVED:
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