HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0546ORDINANCE NO. 546
APPROVING AND ORDERING ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN
UNINHABITED, UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY TO THE
CITY OF BURLINGAME
The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain
as follows:
WHEREAS, the Atlantic Life Insurance Company, a Virginia
corporation, the owner of the real property hereinafter
described, filed with the City Clerk of the City of Burlingame,
a verified petition setting forth the boundary of the unin-
corporated,
nin-torporated, uninhabited territory contiguous to the corporate
limits of the City of Burlingame and requesting that the
property be annexed to the City; and
WHEREAS, said Atlantic Life Insurance Company, a
corporation, by an agreement dated November 30, 1953, agreed
that upon the annexation of said territory, the said property
shall be proportionately subject to all of the existing bonded
indebtedness of the City outstanding at the date of said annexa-
tion, and in any indebtedness authorized and represented by
bonds now issued, and to enjoy all of the privileges and bene-
fits of said City; and
WHEREAS, the City Council on the 21st day of December,
1953, adopted Resolution No. 94-53, fixing January 25, 1954, at
eight o'clock, p.m., in the Council Chamber of the City Hall of
said City, as the time and place when and where any person
interested in the proposed annexation may appear and be heard
thereof; and
WHEREAS, the said Resolution directed that a copy thereof
he published in the Burlingame Advance -Star, a newspaper of
general circulation published in the City of Burlingame, County
of San Mateo, State of California, on the 26th day of December,
1953 and on the 2nd day of January, 1954, being once a week
for two successive weeks and twenty days prior to the time for
the hearing of said petition; and
WHEREAS, said Resolution further ordered that a copy
thereof be published in the Redwood City Tribune, a newspaper of
general circulation printed and published in the County of San
Mateo, but not in the City of Burlingame, on the 26th day of
December, 1953 and on the 2nd day of January, 1954, being once
a week for two successive weeks and twenty days prior to the
time for hearing on said petition; and
WHEREAS, it appears from the affidavits of publication
filed in this proceeding that the notice of hearing was published
and all legal notice of said hearing was given as required by
law; and
WHEREAS, on January 25, 1954, at the meeting of the City
Council of the City of Burlingame and at the time and place fixed
in the aforesaid notice, a hearing was had on the petition and
thereafter the City Council having full and complete jurisdiction
of the matter; it is hereby found, ordered and ordained:
Section 1 - That the hereinafter described real property
is unincorporated, uninhabited territory contiguous to the
corporate limits of the City of Burlingame.
Section 2 - That the Boundary Commission of the County
of San Mateo, State of California, has approved the boundaries of
the territory, above referred to and hereinafter described.
Section 3 - That the said territory, hereinafter
described, is hereby annexed and shall hereafter be a part of the
City of Burlingame, a municipal corporation and shall be taxed to
pay any indebtedness or liability of the City contracted prior to
or existing at the time of annexation, and shall enjoy all of the
privileges and benefits of said City at said time.
Section 4 - That the said exterior boundaries of said
territory hereby annexed are within the County of San Mateo, State'
of California and described as follows:
Section 5 - That the City Clerk is hereby directed to
submit to the Secretary of State of the State of California, a
certified copy of this ordinance, giving the date of its passage,
and that from and after the time of filing said document in the
Office of the Secretary of State, the annexation of the territory
gbove described shall be complete and thenceforth scall be accord-
ing to all intents and purposes, a part of the City of Burlingame,
a municipal corporation.
Section 6 - This Council declares that an emergency
exists which constitutes a menace and a possible damage to the
public health, welfare and safety of the people of the City of
Burlingame and which males it imperative in the furtherance of
the public health, safety and welfare that this ordinance b ecome
effective forthwith„ on the adoption thereof.
The nature of the emergency is such that the land is to be
immediately developed for residential, commercial and industrial
enterprises, and said territory should be subject to planning and
zoning regulations, which now exist in the City of Burlingame and
which it is proposed to apply to the newly annexed tterritory
immediately and before any process of development occurs. It is
also necessary that immediate police and fire service be rendered
to the area as well as plans for storm and sanitary drainage be
provided and failure to supply such service may endanger the
safety, health and welfare of persons residing in said territory.
Section 7 - This Ordinance shall be published as required
by law. Z� �Q
U. S. Simonds, Jr.Na VO
I. Herbert K. White, City Clerk, do hereby cebtify that
the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of
the City Council held January 18, 1954 and adopted thereafter at
a meeting held January 25, 1954, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: ATViATER-BvRD-LOVE-IIORCAN-SIMONDS
NOES: COUNCITINIEN: NONE
ABSENT COUNCILMEN: NO1,0Il
—�erbert K. hate, ity Clerk