HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 022-1974RESOLUTION NO. 22 - 74
RESOLUTION OF THE BURLINGAME CITY COUNCIL REQUESTING
THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION
TO ASSIST WITH INVALIDATION OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES
COMMISSION'S ORDER TO RELOCATE SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S
THIRD AND TOWNSEND STATION
WHEREAS, the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California
issued a permit order to the Southern Pacific Transportation Company
allowing said company to relocate its Third and Townsend Station to the
intersection of Fourth and Townsend; and
WHEREAS, this order was made in recognition of a need to provide
an on ramp to Interstate 280 from Fourth Street, an off ramp which would
sever the existing trackage right of way between Third and Townsend Streets
and the Financial District of San Francisco; and
WHEREAS, the public was consistently refused the right of
g of this order which allows the Southern Pacific Transportation
to build a new depot without adequate rain shed protection; and
WHEREAS, abandonment of Southern Pacific right of way pre-empts
the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's decision -making alternative
of upgrading and extending Southern Pacific commute service into downtown
San Francisco; and
WHEREAS, the Public Utilities Commission's order was rendered
without the benefit of receiving an Environmental Impact Report as required
by law,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City
of Burlingame hereby requests the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
to intercede in courts of law in order to invalidate the Public Utilities
Commission's order until such time as an Environmental Impact Report is
submitted as required by law.
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MAYOR
I, HEREBERT K. WHITE, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do
certify that the foregoing Resolution was introduced at a regular
of the City Council held on the 6th of May , 1974,
and adopted thereafter by the following vote:
COUNCILMEN: Amstrup-Crosby-Cusick-Harrison
COUNCILMEN: None
. COUNCILMEN: Mangini
CITY CLERK