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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 013-1952KWH&W: EAW:S 2/28/52/10c RESOLUTION NO. 13 -52 OF INTENTION TO MAKE ACQUISITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS BURLINGAME MANOR NO. 1 PROJECT NO. 52-1 RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Burlingame, California, that in its opinion the public interest and conven- ience require, and that it is the intention of this Council to undertake certain acquisitions and improvements in said City, as follows, to -wit: 1(a) The improving of La Mesa Drive opposite Lots 28 thru 31, Block 5, Burlingame Manor No. 1, by grading, consisting of excavation and the construction of embankment within said street and within an easement to be acquired herein adjacent to the northeasterly side thereof, and by constructing and recon- structing within said street rock base pavement with asphaltic armor coat wearing surface and Portland cement concrete curbs and gutters, and by constructing and reconstructing therein standard i underground drain and storm drain pipes and standard catch basins capped with cast iron frames and covers; the improving of a portion of said street opposite Lots 31 thru 33 in said Block by constructing and reconstructing along the northeasterly side thereof an asphalt pavement seal coat; and the acquisition of an easement 60 feet wide opposite said Lots 28 thru 31, Block 5, northeasterly of and parallel to the northeasterly line of La Mesa Drive for the construction and maintenance of said improve- ments. (b) The improving of Margarita Avenue opposite Lots lg and 20, Block 2, Burlingame Manor No. 1, by grading, consisting of excavation and the construction of embankment c:ithin said street and within an easement to be acquired herein adjacent to the northwesterly side thereof, and by constructing and re- constructing within said street rock base pavement with asphaltic armor coat wearing surface and Portland cement concrete curbs and gutters, and by constructing and reconstructing therein standard underground and storm drain pipes and standard catch basins capped with cast iron frames and covers; and the acquisition of an ease- ment 100 feet wide northwest of and parallel to the northwest line of Margarita Avenue opposite Lot 20 and a portion of Lot 19 for the construction and maintenance of said improvements. (c)The improving of the intersection of Margarita Avenue and Alturas Drive by grading, including removal of existing curbs and gutters along the northeasterly side thereof, and by con- structing therein Portland cement concrete curbs and gutters, storm drain pipes and catch basins and by repairing and joining the existing pavement. (d) The construction of vitrified clay pipe sanitary sewer mains with standard manholes complete from the existing man- hole in the intersection of Margarita Avenue and Alturas Drive northwesterly across Margarita Avenue and in an easement to be acquired herein across Lot A, Burlingame Manor No. 1, thence north (westerly in an easement to be acquired herein approximately 320 feet and thence westerly in an easement to be acquired herein approximately 185 feet to an existing manhole in an existing 8- inch vitrified clay pipe sewer line; in an easement to be ac- quired herein from an existing manhole opposite the southwesterly side of Lot 21, Block 5, in the southeasterly side of the aband- oned portion of Margarita Avenue, thence northwesterly to the line first described; across the northeasterly end of present La Mesa DrI_ve and thenco =,thti-Vesterly in an easement to be ac- quired herein along the northeasterly side of the abandoned por- tion of La Mesa Drive and the northwesterly prolongation thereof to the line first described; and the acquisition of said easements 10 feet in width. RE (e) The construction of all work and the acquisition of all lands and easements auxiliary thereto and necessary to complete the same. 2. All of said work and improvements are to be construct- ed 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. 3. There is to be excepted from the work above described any of such work already done to line and grade and marked except- ed or shown not to be done on sa-ld plans, profiles and specifica- tions. 4. Said Council does hereby adopt and establish as the official grades for said work the grades and elevations to be shown upon said plans, profiles and specifications. All such grades and elevations are to be in feet and decimals thereof with reference to the datum plane of the City of Burlingame. 5. Notice is hereby given of the fact that in many cases said work and improvement will bring the finished surface of the improved streets to a grade different from the surface of such streets as they now exist, and that to said extent said grades are hereby changed and that said wore{ will be done to said changed grades. 6. Said contemplated improvements, in the opinion of this Council, are of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and the costs and expenses thereof are hereby made chargeable upon an assessment district, the exterior boundaries of which are the coterminous exterior boundaries of the composite and consolidated area consisting of the lots and lands shown on the Pap of Burling- ame Manor No. 1 and the parcels of land abutting on the northeast- erly side of La TTesa Drive prior to the abandonment of the northwesterly portion of said Drive. 3 7. Said Council further declares that all public streets, highways, lanes, courts and alleys within said assessment district in use in the performance of a public function as such, shall be omitted from the assessment hereafter to be made to cover the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements. 8. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent unpaid assessments and bear interest at the rate of not to exceed four per cent (4%) per annum, will be issued hereunder in the manner provided by the Refunding Assessment Bond .'.ct of 1935 as modified in the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, the last in- stallment of such bonds shall mature fourteen (14) years from the second day of July next succeeding ten months from their date. 9. Except as herein otherwise provided for the issuance of bonds, all the work above mentioned shall be done pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, as amended. 10. Reference is hereby made to proceedings had pursuant to Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code (the Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931). 11. Said proposed acquisitions and improvements are hereby referred to the City Engineer of said City as the officer having charge and control of the construction of public improve- ments in 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 herein; II (b) Plans and specifications of the proposed improvements Ito be made pursuant to this Resolution of Intention; 4 (c) Engineer's statement of the itemized and total esti- mated costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith; (d) Diagram showing the assessment district above re- ferred to, and also the boundaries and dimensions of the respect- ive subdivisions of land within said assessment district as the same existed at the time of the passage of this Resolution of Intention, each of which subdivisions shall be given a separate number upon said diagram; (e) A proposed assessment of the total amount of the costs and expenses of the proposed acquisitions and improvements upon the several subdivisions of land in said district in pro- portion to the estimated benefits to be received by such sub- divisions, respectively, from said acquisitions and improvements, and of the expenses incidental thereto. 12. If any excess shall be realized from the assessment, it shall be spent for the maintenance of said improvements, un- less the Council shall hereafter determine that said amount or any part thereof shall be applied as a credit to each assessment herein. 5 IT.A Mayor I, Herbert K. White, City Clerk, do hereby* certify that the foregoing resolution was introduced and adopted at a Regular meeting of the City Council, held on the 17 day of March , 1952, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN Atwater -Byrd -Hunt -Love -Simonds NOES: COUNCILMEN None ABSENT: COUNCILMEN None Herbert K. White City Clerk