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CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
Burlingame, California.
November 23, 1943
The Regular Meeting of the Planning Commission waa. held in the City Hall at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday evening, November 23, 1943.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Mitchell OTHERS PRESENNT: City Attorney Karmel
Coles City Engineer Longson
Brown
Stivers
ABSENT: Rapp
Macomber
Niels Schultz, Schultz Construction Co., Millbrae, presented a map of Sub-
division No. 1, Bayside Manor, and tentative map of Subdivision No. 2, Bayside Manor,
Millbrae, comprising approximately thirty-five acres near Millbrae Avenue adjoining
the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way to the East. This is a wartime housing
project. Mr. Schultz explained that he has submitted the project to the San Mateo
County Planning Commission, receiving a tentative approval subject to compliance with
certain requirements as to public utilities, and that he now presents the matter to
the Burlingame City Planning Commission in accordance with the law, as this develop-
ment is within three miles of the Burlingame City limit. Ins discussing the subject
with Mr. Schultz, he informed the commission that he; is desirous of complying with
all governmental regulations and will create a development which will be in keeping
with its surroundings and that there are certain wartime restrictions to enforce
economy of material, such as placing the electric line pole; in the street rather
than in the easements reserved at the rear lot lines for that purpose; also, the
omission of garages is not to his liking, but he is obliged to observe these wartime
restrictions. As to garages, he intends to provide the concrete foundations, mud
sills, and the cement slab on each lot on which a house is constructed. Under
present regulations he understands that each individual owner will be permitted to
buy sufficient material to construct his own garage. Mr. Schultz stated he did not
have in mind at this time a definite number of houses to be constructed, but the
subdivision provides somewhere between one hundred fifty and two hundred fifty
building sites, all of which are in demand as soon as houses can be built upon them
and are available only to war workers, financed with Title VI loans which will be
handled by the Bank of America, Millbrae Branch. The members of the commission
stated that they could see no reason to voice objection to the project as presented
as long as the development is in compliance with building regulations and government
restrictions, but it was pointed out that the Burlingame Planning Commission does
not believe it is a good idea to create a subdivision of this size provided only
with one means of ingress and egress, consisting of a single street or avenue sixty
feet wide leading into Millbrae Avenue, - the thought being that this might not
prove adequate in the case of emergency and might create,a hazard in the went that
this single means of ingress and egress was blocked during the course of repair
work or for any other reason. It was recommended that any future subdivision should
include provision for another street or road to supplement the present single road
for ingress and egress. As more or less a minor matter, the; commission called atten-
tion to the similarity of a number of the proposed street names to those already in
use in Burlingame, with the thought that as time goes on this might prove to be in-
convenient or confusing. Mr. Schultz said that he had not previously thought of
this and considers it something which should be corrected, and while he desires to
retain Spanish names, he would go over the subject with City Engineer Longson with
the object of avoiding the adoption of any names already in use in Burlingame. The
MINUTES - Meeting November 23, 1943 - Cont'n.
chairman instructed the secretary to communicate the findings of the Burlingame Plan-
ning Commission to the San Mateo Planning Commission.
Commissioner Coles presented a communication prepared by him on the subject
of the Off -Street Parking project, in which he set forth the views he expressed at
the previous meeting of the Planning Commission held on October 28, 1943. This was
read at the meeting and the paper was handed to City Engineer Longson to fill in
figures relating to the total of assessments to be removed from the tax roll, with
the request that the paper be returned to the Planning Commission for attention at
the next meeting.
City Engineer Longson brought up the subject of the! projected route of the
new Junipero Serra Highway through Burlingame, Hillsborough, and San Mateo. In the
discussion it was brought out that the highway now ends at Sn.eath Lane in San Bruno
and that the right-of-way has already been purchased to Mille Avenue, and from
thence Southward it is projected through the built-up area of the three cities.
Engineer Longson expressed the view that unless the route finally selected is one
which will adequately carry the great increase in'traffic anticipated after the war,
it will be most likely that a heavy amount of that traffic will find its way to
El Camino Real and thus enforce the widening of that thoroughfare through Burlingame
and San Mateo to the detriment of the residential attractiveness of the community
from a long range planning view. Commissioner Coles expressed the thought that it
would be better to direct the new Junipero Serra Highway after it leaves Millbrae
Avenue to the Skyline Boulevard, rather than to construct a new super highway through
the residential district or "force" the traffic to use E1 Camino Real. No maps of
the present plan of the projected highway were available, andafter some discussion
of the general subject, as it may affect Burlingame, it was apparent that this was
something for further study.
The meeting adjourned at 9:30 p.m.
D. A.'STIVERS,
*-6-b Secretary.