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-c- v 2. Peninsula Highway Design Policy Committee - Notice of Meeting to be Thursday, June 14, 1962 at 10:00 A. M. , San Mateo Planning Office , Old Courthouse , Redwood City. Councilman Sherlock will attend. lin. Santa Clara County Inter-City Council - Notice of Meeting to be held Thursday, June 7, 1962 at the Red Coach Inn, Los Gatos at 7:30 P. M. Meeting of Committee of Mayors will be held at 6 :30 P. M. Councilman Sherlock or Mayor Clayton will attend. PUBLIC HEARINGS: 1. Fernhill Assessment District - Hearing of Protests. Mayor Clayton opened the Public Hearing at 8:00 P. N. to hear pro- tests to the Fernhill assessment District. The City Engineer reported that protestants represent 19.9% of the property owners in the District, leaving a remainder of 80.1% of non- protesting property owners . Mr. Gardner Bullis, Council for Mr. &: Mrs . Richard A. Gieseker, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Cox, and Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Buitrago, Jr. , present- ed written protest of each of these property owners, protesting to "the extent of the Improvement District ; the failure to include Lomita Linda therein; also the assessment of property of protestants as unjust , unfair, unreasonable, disproportionate and excessive ; also to any inclusion of protestant ' s property within said Improvement District and to the Improvement District". Mr. Gieseker, spokesman for the group, stated that he and his neigh- bors , Mr. Cox and Mr. Buitrago, aro being assessed for 13% of the total cost of the improvements, whereas only 12% of Fernhill Road is in common usage , and Lomita Linda which is not in an adequate condi- tion is not included in the district , but has the sane status as Fernhill Road . Mr. Gieseker stated that he had paid into the Town' s Road Improvement Fund at the time he subdivided four (4) lots , the SUE of:Twelve-'Hundred Dollars 01200.00) , and felt that his and the Cox and Buitrago properties should not be included in the District. The City Attorney stated that Mr. Gieseker is being credit for the sum of Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1200.00) . Mr. Watson Clifford, Engineer for Chas . S. McCandless Co . , referred to his Memo to Mr. .Salfen, dated April 17, 1962, which explained that the assessments were made on a per lot basis rather than frontage basis. He referred to the method of assessment of the four lots for which Mr. Gieseker paid in the Road Improvement Fund. Relative to questions regarding acquisition of rights of way, and in order that further consideration may given to protests, the fol- lowing action was taken at the suggestion of the City attorney: CTION: That the Public Hearing to hear protests to the Fernhill Assess- ment District be continued to the meeting of June 18, 1962.