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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 4229'4 S ORIGINAL • WJML:KIJ:mf 3/27/69 25C RESOLUTION NO. 4229 A RESOLUTION DETERMINING TO UNDERTAKE PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE FOR THE ACQUISITION OF IMPROVEMENTS WITHOUT PROCEEDINGS UNDER DIVISION 4 OF THE STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE FOOTHILLS GAS SYSTEM ASSESSMENT DISTRICT RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Palo Alto, California, that WHEREAS, all of the owners of more than 60% in area of the property subject to assessment therefor have signed and filed with the City Clerk of this't;ity a written petition for undertaking pro- ceedings pursuant to the Palo Alto Municipal Code and to assess the costs thereof upon the properties benefited by said improvements and waiving proceedings under Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code, for the acquisitions hereinafter described; WHEREAS, the costs and expenses of said contemplated acquisi- tions are to be chargeable upon an assessment district, the exterior boundaries of which are the coterminous exterior boundaries of the composite and consolidated area more particularly shown on a map thereof on file in the office of the City Clerk, identified as "Map Showing Boundaries of Proposed Assessment District, Foothills Gas System, Project No. 68-82, City of Palo Alto, State of California", to which reference is hereby made for further particulars; WHEREAS, -the public interest and convenience will be served by the taking of said proceedings; WHEREAS, said acquisitions are more particularly described as follows: Primary Supply System An existing pipeline through the Interstate 280 Highway Interchange on Page Mill road, together with the surplus capacity constructed in Gas Distribution Station No. 3 located near Page Mill Road and Matadero Greek, steel gas trans- mission pipe and appurtenances from Gas Distri- bution Station No. 3 near Page Mill Road and Matadero Creek generally southerly and southwest- erly in easements acquired across the lands of Stanford University to near the City limits of the City of Palo Alto, thence continuing south- westerly in easements acquired herein to the gas pipeline at the interstate 280 Highway Inter- change referred to above; and from the southerly terminus of said pipeline generally in, along and parallel to Page Mill Road to and across Arastradero Road, thence westerly and northwest- erly generally parallel to Arastradero Road to a point approximately 2200 feet from Page Mill Road, thence southwesterly in easements acquired herein to the westerly boundaries of the Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club property. Gas Service System to the Alexis Drive Area A secondary supply gas pipeline and appurtenances from the southwesterly terminus of the last men- tioned pipeline at the property line of the Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club, generally south- westerly in easements acquired herein across said Country Club property to its easterly boundary, together with a complete gas distributi^n system including gas service connections in Alexis Drive, Bandera Drive, Country Club Court and such public utility easements as are necessary to provide complete gas distribution service to all of the properties within the subareas -identified as Subareas 6, 7, 8 and 9 on the map showing the boundaries of the proposed assessment district hereinafter referred to. Gas Service System to Stanford and American Institute for Research Area A secondary gas supply pipeline and appurtenances from the point on the primary supply system above described on Arastradero Road from which said primary supply system line leaves Arastradero Road southwesterly, generally westerly, southerly and westerly along Arastradero Road to the most west- erly City limits line of the City of Palo Alto on Arastradero Road. General The acquisition of all lands and easements and rights of service and use auxiliary to any of the above and necessary to complete the same. 2 • • NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY FOUND, DETERMINED, and ORDERED, that all of the owners of more than 60% in area of the property subject to assessment for said proposed acquisitions have filed with the City Clerk of this City a written petition for the acquisi- tion of improvements pursuant to appropriate provisions of the Palo Alto Municipal Code without further compliance with the provi- sions of Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code. IT IS FURTHER FOUND, DETERMINED, and ORDERED that said proceed- ings for the acquisition of said improvements shall be had pursuant to Section 13.12.040 of said Palo Alto Municipal Code, being analo- gous to the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, and the bonds upon the unpaid assessments thereof shall be issued pursuant to Bond Plan B of said Code, being analogous to the Improvement Bond Act of 1915. IT IS FURTHER FOUND, DETERMINED, and ORDERED that the provi- sions of Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code be, and they are hereby, dispensed with. - * * * * * * 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 7th day of April members thereof: 1969, by the following vote of the AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Arnold, Beahrs, Berwald Clar, Comstock, Gallagher, Pearson NOES, Councilmen: None ABSENT, Councilmen: Dias, G lixson, Spaeth, Wheatley A?PRO : yor 3 • y o eC yo •ao 0