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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 3860n RESOLUTION NO. 060 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA RECOMMENDING TO THE DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA A ROUTE FOR THE PROPOSED FOOTHILL FREEWAY THROUGH THE CITY OF AZUSA. WHEREAS, public hearings have been conducted in the City of Azusa for the purpose of discussing the route of the proposed Foothill Freeway through the City, and WHEREAS, it is the conviction of the City Council that the routes along First Street and also along Fifth Street indicated by the Division of Highways of the State of California are detri- mental to the best interests of the City of Azusa and surrounding communities for the following reasons: (a) It creates an unnatural division of the City result- ing in the separation of a southerly strip from the remainder of the City rendering it difficult to provide fire, police, public utility and other municipal services to such segregated area and separating the residents of such area from the business districts of the City of Azusa; (b) It cuts through existing school district boundaries at an undesirable location making necessary expensive re -alignment and re -planning of school district facilities; (c) It eliminates a greater amount of used or useable property for business or residential purposes resulting in greater loss to the City in property taxes, sales taxes, state subventions depending on population, utility services„ and other sources of revenue, and WHEREAS„ other routes considered by the Division of Highways, particularly the most southerly suggested route, with slight modifications as herein suggested, would alleviate or eli- minate many of the above mentioned disadvantages of the First Street and Fifth Street routes. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Azusa does hereby resolve that the Division of Highways of the State of California be requested, and it is hereby requested, to abandon further consideration of the aforesaid routes of the Foothill Freeway through the City of Azusa and that it re -align the said proposed Freeway route so as to enter the City of Azusa from the west in the vicinity of the intersection of Irwindale Avenue and Gladstone Street and continue easterly along the southerly side of Gladstone Street to a point in the vicinity of Cerritos Avenue thence northeasterly and along the north side of Gladstone Street to a point in the vicinity of the Big Dalton Wash,. then proceeding in a northeasterly direction to connect with a route in the vicinity of Glendora Avenue in the City of Glendora, following generally the most southerly route submitted for consideration by the Division of Highways but continuing easterly a greater distance as above indicated before veering to the northeast. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution and transmit a certified copy thereof to the Department of Highways of the State of California. -1. 0 1959. Adopted and approved this 17th day of February , Mayor I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa at an:,adjourned meeting thereof held on the 17th day of February, 1959, by the following vote of the Council: AYES: Councilmen: Fawcett, Ortuno, Teasley, Memmesheimer, NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: Johnson �' Cit Clerk