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Home My WebLink AboutRESO 4439·.' . • lows: -• •oP.IGINAL . 'N.JY RESOLUTION NO. ~ RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND NECESSITY OF SAID CITY REQUIRE, FOR PUBLIC USE FOR PUBLIC GROUNDS, CERTAIN LAND LOCATED IN THE CITY OF PALO ALTO, COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA (HOOVER PARK) The council of the City of Palo Alto does RESOLVE as fol- SECTION l. The Council of the City of Palo Alto has found and determined, and hereby does find, determine and declare, that the public interest and necessity require the acquisition, construc- tion and completion by the City of Palo Alto of the following public improvement, to wit: public grounds for property known as Hoover Park. SECTION 2. The takinq in fee simple of the property described in EXHIBIT A attached hereto and delineated on the map marked EXHIBIT B attached hereto and by reference mad~ a part hereof, situated in the City of Palo Alto, County of Santa Clara, Stata of Califoxnia, is necessary for such improvement. SECTION 3. Said proposed ~cquisition and improvement is planned and located in·a manner which will be most compatible with the greatest public goo4 and the least private injury, and all of such acquisition is locat~ within the territorial limits of the City of Palo Alto. SECTION 4. The council of the City of Palo Alto hereby dec- lares its intention of acquiring title in fee simple in said land ; :~scribed in· EXHIBIT A and shown on EXHIBIT B under eminent domain proceedings, and the Office of the City Attorney of the City of Palo Alto and the law firm of Messrs, Wilson, Jones, Morton & Lynch, employed for that purpose, are hereby directed to institute -1 - ·, • and conduct to conclusion an action in eminent domain for the acquisition of said property in fee simple, and to take such action as is necessary therein. SECTION s. The City Manager is hereby authorized and directed as an alternative to trial of any action in eminent domain initi- ated hereunder, to purchase for such reasonable sum as he may deem appropriate or exchange for other lands, as previously author• ized by the City Council, the real property described in said EXHIBIT A and shown on EXHIBIT B and to cause to be draf_ted, executed and delivered on behalf of the City all documents, either to be used within or without the condemnation proceedings afore- said, necessary or convenient to accomplish this purpose. SECTION 6. The City Manager is further authori~ed to s~end fromqeneral funds of the City appropriated for such purposes such monies as are nacessary or exchan9e such lands, which in his opinion may constitute the fair market v~lue of said parcel based upon appraisals of duly qualified and competent real estate appraisers. SECTION 7. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution by a vote of two-thirds of all of the members of the City Council. I hereby certify that the whole number of members of the Council of the City of Palo Alto is eleven and that the foreqoinq resolution was adopted by a vote of two-thirds or more of all of the member• of said Council at ,-its meeting held on the 5th day of April , 1971, by the following vote: AYES1 Bteahra, Berwald, Clark, Comstock, Dias, Galhgher, Norton, Pearson, Spaeth, Wheatley NOES1 None ABSENTS Arnold Signed and approved this /al u. day of ATTESTa ~~-· )& kk;, i y erk APPROVED AS TO FORM: ~ Attorney -2 - • • EXHIBIT "A" All that real property 1ituated in the City of Palo Alto, County of Santa Clara, State of California, and described as follows: Parcel 1 BEGINNING at the point of intersection of the Northeastel"ly line of Cowper Street {60 feet wide) with the common dividing line of Loh 58 and 59, C. M. Wooster Company 1 s Subdivision of the Clarke Ranch, recorded November 11, l 91Z, in Book 11 0 11 of Maps at page 16, Recorcls of 5anta Clara County, California; thence S. 5Z 0 00._ E. 12. 98 feet; thence N. 38 ° 00 1 E. 115 feet to the true point of beginning; thence leaving said true point of beginning S. 52 ° 00 1 E. 30 feet; thence N. 38 ° 00' E. 137. 23 feet; thence N. 52° 00 1 w. 30 feet; thence s. 38° 00' w. 137. 23 feet to the true. point of beginning, being a portion of said Lot 58. Parcel 2 BEGINNING at the point of intersection of the Northeasterly line of Cowper Street (60 feet wide) with the common dividing line of Lots 58 and 59, C. M •. Wooster Company's Subdivision of the Clarke Ranch, recorded November 11, 1912, in Book 11 0 11 of Maps at page 16, Records of Santa Clara County, California; thence S. 52 ° 00' E. along Sil.:.d Northeasterly line of Cowper Street 12. 98 feet to the true point of beginning; thence N. 38° 00' E. 115. 00 feet; thence S. SZ • 00' E. 30. 00 feet; thence S. 38 • 00' W. 115. 00 feet to a point on said Northeasterly line of Cowper Street; thence N. 52 • 00' W. along said Northeasterly line 30. 00 feet to the point of beginning, being a port.ion of said Lot 58. Parcel 3 BEGINNING at a point on the Northeasterly line of Lot 59, C. M. Wooster Company's Subdivision of the Clarke Ranch, a map of which was recorded November 11, 19L} in Book ~'0" of Maps 3t page 16, Records of Santa Clara County, California, dia~ll.A~-· thereon 71. 86 feet Northwesterly from the most Easterly corner of said Lot 59; thence along a non-tangent curve to the left having a radius of 99. 0 feet. the radiuo point of which_ bears S. 58 • 49' 41 11 E. from said point of .beginning, through a central angle of 49• 02' 06 11 for an arc distance of 83. 00 feet; to a point of compound curva.ture; thence continuing along the arc, r ~·a tangent curve to the left having a radius of 185 feet, through a central angle of 12.0 48' 19", for an arc distance of 41. 35 feet to a point of reverse curvature; thence along the arc of a reve~se curve to the-right, tang~nt to the preceding curve, having a radius of 15 feet through a central angle of .. ':l7° 44' 31 "• for an arc distance of 9. 88 feet; · · thence S. 38 • 00' W. 34. 33 feet, thence S. 52. • 00' E. 10. 00 fee~; thence N. 38 • 00' E. 52. 70 feet; thence in a northwe1terly direction along the arc of a non-tangent curve to the right, having a radius of 175 feet, which radius point beare N. SS• 47' · 15 11 E. 175. 0 feet. through a central angle of 11 • 20 1 5811 • for an arc distance of 52. 99 feet, to a point of c~mpound curvature; thence continuing along the arc of a tangent curve to the ri1ht having a radiu• of 89 feet, thr<>Ugb a central angle of 47 • 15' 15 11 , for an arc distance of 73. 40 feet; thence N. 52 • 00 1 W. 10. 07 feet to the point of be1inning, being a portion of said Lot 59 and a portion of Lot 58 of •aid Subdivilion. 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