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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 4386• WJML;KXJ:mf viipm 25c r ORIGINAL RESOLUTION NO. 4386 A RESOLUTION OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION AND OF INTENTION TO ACQUIRE AND CONSTRUCT IMPROVEMENTS AND TO FORM THE UNIVERSITY AVENUE DISTRICT BEAUTIFICATION MAINTENANCE DISTRICT -UNIVERSITY AVENUE DISTRICT BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT NO. 70-92 RESOLVED, by the Council 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 improveiaents to be made, to wit: Beautification of the University Avenue business district, including trees 1.n sidewalk areas, a planted median in University Avenue and provision of raised planters, benches:, and special sidewalk surfaces adjacent to existing .curbs at street inter- sections and other appropriate locations together with street lighting improvement b,; providing orna- mental luminaires and by repetitive use of a dis tinctive -Structure capable of incorporating street lights, . traffic signals, street signs, waste con- tainers, drinking fountains, and other decorative and utilitarian street furniture... 2; All of the blocks, streets:. and •alleys herein mentioned are shown on maps of record in tie office or re County Recorder of Santa Clara : County,, State of:Caliparntas and .eball be shown on the plans hereinreferred to City. led with t 'City irk of said 3. Whenever any public licar is herein referred to as running between two public ways, or from or to any publin-wai, the intersec- tions of the public ways referred to are included to the extent that work shall be shown on the plans to', be: done herein. 4. Ali of said work .and ietirevernenta are to be can#tructed at the places and in the particular lacstians, of the' forms, sizes, dimensions and materials, and at-" the Via, grade* and elevations ail shown and delineated upon the pis, profiles and spee atio*a t be made therefor, es hereinafter provides • \..\\\.\\1\\ 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 pans, profiles and specifications. 6. Said Council does hereby adopt and establish as the offi- cial grades for said work thegradesand elevations to be shown upon said plans, profiles and specifications. All such grades and eleva- tions 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 cases 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 w►trk willbe done to said .-.hanged grades. 8. The descriptions of the acquisitions 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-profilea.of the work and the map and descriptions of the acquisitions, as contained in the Engineer's report, shall, be control ats to the- correct and ].lag- .. detailed description thereof. 9. The cost and expennek_ and improvements::;; local or ordinary ISKI4.A0010ikttk Argo' he assessment districiki whiStr,diatticAirsaid. district benefited by °wild acquisitions and slikpriessentas and, the exterior boundaries ,' which are describes Wit the plat. identified as "university Avennsdistrict UtIi t_ No. 70-92," dated October 7, 1970, 'file in . o ee of -the City': Clerk, which indicates by a boundary lid' the extent Otto territory included within the asaeeameat district and uhiCh shall govern for all details as to the extent oP said proposed district. 10. Said Council further declares that all public streets, highways, lanes and alleys and other publtic],y and otherwise 2 non-taxable property within said assessment district shall be omitted from the annual ad valorem assessments -hereafter to be made to pay principal and interest on bonds to be issued to finance the cost of said acquisitions and improvements. 11. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent the total cost of the project to be financed by the assessment district, to bear interest at the rate of not to exceed seven percent (7%) per annum; shall be issued pursuant to Bond Plan E, . Section 13.16.140; of said Code, the last installment of which bonds- shall mature not to exceed twenty-four (24) years from the 2nd day of July next succeed- ing ten months from their date. 12. The Council may annually, at or prior to the time the levy of ad valorem assessments to service said bonds' is made, _car _1 t such other time as it shall determined, transfer to the_ redemption :fund of said bonds such amount or amounts as, it -:shall determine-. 13. - -Except as herein otherwise ,.prodded for the issuance .' ands,; all of said -work and acquisitions shall..e done as provide in Section 13.12.040 of said Code,` being a alagous "to. the Municipal - Improve t, Act of d 1913, Division 12 of the -Streets and, ode, and Section 13.12.(»0, o f ance with Seet 17 of California. 14. said aeclute*tiVal and ImProvisee the City Engineer of said Cit i a►s the offer vi e and can-- • trol of the acq#1-eitiOn401;:onstruction of Intql,e .itaprovenOts in ceding. - procedure for c a- of: the tut . n- Or _ the State and = for said its -et d described herein, be tent person employed by t weer ie. hereby directed to make and fib Frith the OAT Clerk: of 'said Ci report in writing, freeentina,the tale a) Plans mad ePenifleations - of tom,. pr.sd ispr¢vements to be made pursuant to is :; soutiq►n; b) Engineer's estimate of the total costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements, and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith. 15. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, in the opinion of this Council, _ the areas contained within said proposed assessment district are the properties which will be benefited by the maintenance and operation of the proposed beautification improvements to be constructed herein, and that the public interest and convenience require and that it is the intention of this Council to fora said area into a beautification maintenance district under and pursuant to Section 13.12.040 of said Code, to be known as the "University Avenue District Beautification Maintenance District," for the _•.rpose of maintaining and operating said beautification improvements, and that a hearing will be had on said matter by this .Conu oil at the same time as the hearing. on the Engineer's eeport hereunder, at which time any and alh persons interested may be heard. 16. If any surplus shall be realized Pros :the proceeds of sale. of the bonds to be issued Under Bond Plan S, it shall be deposited in the bond interest and redemption fund for said bonds. I hereby :cart; copy of a reso . City of , Palo `Alto, or