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CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
Burlingame, California.
July 4 1943
A Special Meeting of the Planning Commission, City of Burlingame, was held
in the City Hall 8:10 p.m. Thursday evening, July 1, 1943.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Mitchell ABSENT: Rapp
Coles Macomber
Brown
Stivers
OTHERS PRESENT: Longson
Watson
Chairman Mitchell presiding.
This meeting was called principally for the.purpose of considering plans and
trying to arrive at what amount the city can set aside per, year for post-war projects
without a bond issue. City Engineer Cecil Longson, who has been on leave of absence
while in Alaska, has returned and was present at this meeting. Mr. Longson said that
a list of projects already has been filed with the National Resource Planning Board in
Washington, D.C. about a year ago before he left for Alaska. Chairman Mitchell said
that the Planning Commission had evidently not been given an opportunity to look over
such a document and that the only list which he had seen indicated scattered projects
which the Planning Commission thought should be grouped according to the character of
the projects. Mr. Mitchell outlined the discussion of this subject which took place
at a meeting of the Planning Commission April 29, 1943, and recommended that the
projects listed are under consideration and should be grouped according to their
character and degree of urgency or necessity, and also outlined a tentative plan for
extending Donnelly Avenue in connection with the proposed underpass.
Mr. Mitchell also spoke of the study made of the proposed plan for extending
the present City Hall, instead of the proposition to purchase a tract of land on the
highway for a new civic center. He also brought up the subject of the waterfront
development and mentioned the possibility that the city may be able to acquire the
Western Pacific Railroad Company right-of-way which they never used on account of the
change in their plans. There was also a general discussion of the Off -Street Parking
plan. Mr. Coles asked Mr. Longson to procure from Park Superintendent Anderson a copy
of the survey showing the present street tree plantings.
Mr. Longson referred to a petition which has been received from residents of
Burlingame Gardens seeking a streetcrossing over the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks
to afford ingress and egress to the Broadway business district. He said that a pre-
liminary investigation of this subject indicates that it will be virtually impossible
to create a new street crossing over the railroad tracks between Oak Grove Avenue and
Broadway, but he has under investigation a plan for providing a roadway or at least a
pedestrian -way along the Easterly side of the railroad tracks from Burlingame Gardens
to Broadway which would afford access to that business district without the necessity
of the residents in Burlingame Gardens going out to the Bayshore Highway and then up
to Broadway.
In the discussion relating to the possible waterfront development, it was
brought out that the Western Pacific Railroad Co. right-of-way contains 15.14 acres
in addition to which they acquired 33.68 acres severance land, total 48.82 acres.
The meeting adjourned at 10:30.
D. A. STIVERS,
WSecretary.