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CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
Burlingame, California.
June 17, 1943
A Special Meeting of the Planning Commission, City of Burlingame, was held in
the City Hall 7:45 p.m. Thursday evening, June 17, 1943.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Mitchell ABSENT: None
Coles
Rapp
Macomber
Brown
Stivers
OTHERS PRESENT: Allan F. Hunt
W. P. Roth
I. Karmel
G. Stanley Whitehead
James Watson
Chairman Mitchell presiding.
This special meeting was held to review the plans of the Lang Realty Co. to
construct twenty-three new duplex buildings on Bayshore Boulevard. Mr. Lang presented
plans and water color drawings of the proposed structures and immediately it was ap-
parent that a number of the neighbors and representatives of local improvement clubs
intended to present vigorous opposition. A. W. Frazier, President, Burlingables Oak
Grove Manor Improvement Club, stated that while the new pictures appeared somewhat more
attractive than the duplexes norr, in the Bayshore Tract, his organization nevertheless
questioned if the Lang Realty Co. could, under present wartime conditions, do a good
job of construction and urged that the project be postponed. William B. Glynn, Chair-
man, Progress Committee, Burlingables Oak Grove Manor Improvement Club, stated that
only poor grades of lumber are now obtainable and inferior substitutes must be used
for hardware and other materials, with restrictions on fixtures and the building of
garages, and urged postponement stating that he wished to protest any further construc-
tion of this type along the Bayshore Highway. Mr. Lang responded that these new
structures were going to cost him an average of $7,000 for each two-family duplex and
that, as far as restrictions on garages are concerned, he would be willing to put up a
cash bond to guarantee building them when government restrictions are relaxed. Council-
man Roth, who was present, made a vigorous protest regarding this type of development
and urged that the :natter should be postponed for further study. Mr. Brown suggested
that the matter be postponed to next Thursday night to give opportunity to members of
the commission to look over the project on the ground next Saturday afternoon.
The meeting adjourned 10:10 p.m.
D. h. STIVER5,
��l_4 Secretary.