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RESOLUTION NO, 21
RESOLUTION RFCONNENDING DESIGN
STANDARDS FOR JUNIPER0 SERRA
FREEWAY
WHEREAS since the advent of the "freeway" in Cali-
fornia,, the San Francisco Bay Area, and especially the Pen-
insula, there has been an ever-growing concern of many of our
citizens over the absence of a truly creative and aestheti-
cally satisfying relationship between the freeway and the
land forms and community characteristics through which it
traverses, and
WHEREAS examples such as Bayshore , Embarcadero,
and other freeways have set a formidably alarming backdrop
for the design of Junipero Serra, a freeway which will pass
through the most outstandingly beautiful section of our
Peninsula, and
WHEREAS the apparent implications of this were of
such magnitude that the formation of a Freeway Design Commit-
tee was spontaneously initiated by citizens from the three
Peninsula counties of Santa Clara, San Mateo, and San Fran-
cisco, and the formation of the Peninsula Highway Policy Com-
mittee, composed of County Supervisors and City Councilmen
has been consumated. This Committee has met and has adopted
the following criteria as worthy, Obdectivesfor' the des _gn• and
execution of the Junipero Serra Freeway:
1. That the natural beauty of the area wherein
the freeway is located is fully preserved.
2. That the freeway be designed to follow the
natural contour of the ground as much as practicable and yet
maintain grades and standards for maximum safety of driving.
3. That the median area and widths of right-of-
way vary in width to meet the unusual topographic ^onditions
and to avoid drastic cuts and fills which will mar the nat-
ural terrain.
4. That the project be landscaped with native
plant materials which will obliterate construction grading
as much as possible ; screen off areas of incompatible use
and effect other arrangement of planting in the interest of
safe driving.
5. That all grade separations , bridges , and other
structures be designed to achieve an excellence of aesthetic
appearance and that they be built of such materials which
will blend appropriately with the landscape.
WHEREAS it is our belief that the State Highway
Design engineers and the Bureau of Public Roads officials
of the Federal Government desire this high excellence of de-
sign, now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of The Town of
Los Altos Hills in regular meeting assembled on the 20th day
of Kay, 1959, does support the general objectives as herein
set forth, and does respectfully and urgently request the
California Highway Commission, the Federal Bureau of Public
Roads, and the State Highway Engineer and his staff, to
find ways and means of accomplishing these objectives as
set forth herein, and further
BE IT SOLVED that copies of th*Resolution
be sent to :
Representative J. Arthur Younger
State Senator John F. Thompson
Assemblyman Clark L. Bradley
Assemblyman Bruce F. Allen
The Federal Bureau of Public Roads
The California Highway Commission, and to each
member thereof
State Highway Engineer George T. McCoy
Assistant State Highway Engineer B. W. Booker
Peninsula Highway Policy Committee
The foregoing Resolution was regularly introduced
and adopted at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the
Town of Los Altos Hills, held on the 20th day of April
1959, by the following Roll Call Vote;
AYES : Councilmen Bledsoe, Clayton, Sherlock,
Mayor Fowle
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilman Henley
APPROVED:
Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk