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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 079-1969WJMi,:KJmh 9-22-69-20 RESOLUTION NO. 79 -69 A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ACQUIRE AND CONSTRUCT IMPROVEMENTS BURLINGAME AVENUE AREA OFF-STREET PARKING DISTRICT PROJECT NO. 1969-1 RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Burlingame, California, that 1. In its opinion the public interest and convenience require and that it is the intention of said Council to order the following acquisitions and improvements, to wit: a) The acquisition of the property of the City of Burlingame known as the old city hall site on Park Road; the post office parking lot (identified in the proceedings to form the Burlingame Avenue Area Off -Street Parking District as Parcels lE and 6E) with about 70 feet of frontage on Lorton Avenue and 150 feet of depth; and a pedestrian access to Burlingame Avenue from the Donnelly Avenue lots; b) The improving of said lots and pedestrian access by grading, including demolition and removal of structures and obstructions, and the construction of pavement, curbs, accesses, fences, landscaping, drainage and lighting struc- tures and facilities as may be needed for completion and use of said lots for off-street vehicle parking; c) The acquisition of all lands and easements and the construction of all work auxiliary to any of the above and necessary to complete the same. 2, All of the blocks, streets and alleys herein mentioned are shown on maps of record in the office of the County Recorder of the County of San Mateo, State of California, and shall be shown upon the plans 'herein referred to and to be filed with the City Clerk of said City. 3. All of said work and improvements are to be constructed at the places and in the particular locations, of the forms, sizes, dimensions and materials, and at the lines, grades and elevations as shown and delineated upon the plans, profiles and specifications to be made therefor, as hereinafter provided. 4. 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 plans, profiles and specifications. 5o Said Council does hereby adapt and establish as the offi- cial grades for said work the grades and elevations to be shown upon said plans, profiles and specifications. All such grades and eleva- t ons are to be in feet and decimals thereof with reference to the datum plane of the City of Burlingame. 6. 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 work will be done to said changed grades, 7. 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 profiles of the work and maps and descriptions, as contained in the Engineer's report, shall. be controlling as to the correct and detailed description thereof. 8. Said contemplated acquisitions and improvements, in the opinion of said Council, are of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and the costs and expenses thereof are made chargeable upon an assessment district, heretofore created in proceedings conducted pursuant to Resolution of Intention Igo. 27-62, adopted May 1% 1962, a,:� modified, known as the "Burlingame Avenue Area Offstreet Parking District", the exterior boundaries of which district are the com- jeysite and consolidated area. as more particularly shown on a plat thereof on file in the office of the City Clerk, labelled "Assessment Diagram, Burlingame Avenue Area Offstreet Parking District, Sup- plemented 5-12-69", to which reference is hereby made for further particulars. Said map indicates by a boundary line the extent of the territory included in the proposed district and shall govern for all details as to the extent of the assessment district, 2 9. The assessment shall be apportioned among the several parcels to be assessed in the ratio of the assessed value of land as shown on the County tax roll, as nearly as, in the opinion of the Council, the requirement for assessing benefits will permit. Utility property being assessed on the utility roll at 33% of value, and other properties being assessed on the county roll at 23% of value, the property of the Telephone Company shall be assumed to have an assessed value of 69.7% of its present assessed value on said utility roll. Credit for private off-street parking facilities granted in the original proceedings conducted pursuant to said Resolution of Inten- tion shall be allowed in apportioning said assessment. 10. All public streets and highways and publicly -owned property within said assessment district in use in the performance of a public function as such and property proposed to be acquired herein shall be omitted from the.assessment hereafter to be made to cover the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements. 11. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent unpaid assessments and bear interest at the rate of not to exceed seven percent (7%) per annum, will be issued hereunder in the manner provided in the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, Division 10 of the Streets and Highways Code, the last installment of which bonds shall mature not to exceed twenty-four (24) years from the second day of July next succeeding ten months from their date. 12. Except as herein otherwise provided for the issuance of bonds, all of said work shall be done as provided in the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, Division 12 of the Streets and Highways Code, and Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California. 13. Said acquisitions and improvements are hereby referred to the City Engineer of said City as the officer having charge and con- trol of the acquisition and construction of public improvements in Ea and for said City of the kind described herein, being a competent person employed by said City for that purpose; and said City Engineer is hereby directed to make and file with the City Clerk of said City a report in writing, presenting the following: a) Maps and descriptions of the lands and easements to be acquired; b) Plans and specifications of the proposed improvements to be made pursuant to this Resolution; c) Engineer's estimate of the total costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith; d) Diagram showing the assessment district above referred to, and also the boundaries and dimensions of the respective subdivi- sions of land within said district as the same existed at the time of the passage of this Resolution, each of which subdivisions shall be given a separate number upon said diagram; e) A proposed assessment of the total amount of the cost and expenses of the proposed acquisitions and improvements upon the several subdivisions of land in said district in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by such subdivisions, respectively, from said acquisitions and improvements. When any portion or percentage of the cost and expenses of the acquisitions and improvements is to be paid from sources other than assessments, the amount of such portion or percentage shall first be deducted from the total estimated cost and expenses of said acqui- sitions and improvements, and said assessment shall include only the remainder of the estimated cost and expenses. Said assessment shall refer to said subdivisions by their respective numbers as assigned pursuant to subdivision (d) of this section. 14, Notice is hereby given that, in the opinion of the Council the public interest will not be served by allowing the property 4 owners to take the contract for the construction of the improvements, and that, pursuant to Section 10502.4 of the Streets and Highways Code, no notice of award of contract shall be published. 15. if any excess shall be realized from the assessment it shall be used, in such amounts as the Council may determine, in accord- ance with the provisions of law, for one or more of the following purposes. a) Transfer to the general fund of the City, provided that the amount of any such transfer shall. not exceed the lesser of $1,000 or 5% of the total amount expended from the improvement fund; b) As a credit upon the assessment and any supplemental assessment; or c) For the maintenance of the improvements. T hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of a resolution duly passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Burlingame, California, at a meeting thereof held on the 6th day of October , 1969, by the following vote: AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Amstrup-Crosby-George-Johnson-Martin. NOES, Councilmen: None ABSENT, Councilmen: None '",♦ice Mayor City Clerk o the C ty of Bur ingame 5