HomeMy WebLinkAbout124 RESOLUTION NO. 124
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS
RETURNING TO THE DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS THE PROPOSED JUNIPERO
_ ..SERRA FREEWAY AGREEMENT
WHEREAS, the Division of Highways, Department of Public
Works , State of California, has presented to the City Council of
the Town of Los Altos Hills for its approval a proposed Freeway
Agreement between the Town and the State of California covering
State Highway Route 239 between Magdalena Avenue and 0.3 mile west
of Page Mill Road, Route No. 4-Sc1-239-LAH; and
WHEREAS, the Town of Los Altos Hills , acting through its
Planning Commission, City Council and technical staff advisors, has
studied said Freeway Agreement and has consulted with proper
engineers and officials of the Division of Highways ; and
WHEREAS, the location proposed for the Junipero Serra
Freeway and by the said Freeway Agreement was selected in consider-
ation of and reliance on the premise that the right-of-way for said
freeway would not be available along the presently existing Southern
Pacific Railroad
line through Los Altos and on the furtherrther premise
that an express way was to be built paralleling said Southern
Pacific rail line; and
WHEREAS, it now appears that said Southern Pacific right-
of-waybe available for freeway may purposes and further that funds
are not available for theproposed p oposed express way and that said express
waywill not
be constructed in the foreseeable future ;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of
the Town of Los Altos Hills, that said council does hereby request
that said Freeway Agreement, with particular reference to the route
of the Freeway therein described, be given further consideration by
the California State Highway Commission, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that pending such further consider-
ation the said Freeway Agreement is hereby declared to be wholly un-
acceptable to the Town of Los Altos Hills.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a Regular Meeting of the City Council
of the Town. of Los Altos Hills on the 15th day of February , 1960,
by the following Roll Call Vote :.
AYES: Councilmen Bledsoe , Clayton, Henley, Sherlock,
Mayor Fowle
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
APPROVED:
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