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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 676 RESOLUTION NO. 67..__fi..6.. RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDINGS WHEREAS the City of Saratoga plans the construction of certain pedestrian walkway facilities in said City, along Saratoga- Los Gatos Road, and it is necessary for said public improvement that a pedestrian walkway right-of-way and easement be acquired on the hereinafter described real property for the installation of said public improvement, and good cause appearing therefor, NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Saratoga does hereby resolve as follows: Section 1: The statements in the preamble hereof ....................are hereby adopted as findings of this Council. In addition, it is hereby found and determined that the public interest and necessity require the acquisition of the hereinafter described easement in real property for the construction of the above-described public improvement, and that such property is necessary therefor. Said public improvement is planned-and located in a manner which will be most compatible with the greatest public good and the least private injury. Section 2: Pursuant to Article I, Section 14 of the ............ California State Constitution, and Title VII, Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure of said State, the City of Saratoga is hereby authorized and empowered to take all necessary steps to acquire an easement and right-of-way for pedestrain walkway purposes along and upon that certain ten foot strip of real property described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, by the power of eminent domain, and to obtain immediate possession of the same upon the co~mlencement of said proceedings, and the City Attorney of this City is hereby authorized and directed to commence said proceedings in the proper court having jurisdiction thereof, and take all necessary steps to proceed to and conclude the condemnation of said property in accord herewith. Section 3: Upon direction of the City Attorney, the City Treasurer shall draw his warrant payable to the Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Santa Clara, in a sum not to exceed the amount as determined by the City's Director of Public Works as being the fair market value of said easement, as and for a deposit for innmediate possession in accord with Article I, Section 14 of the Constitution of the State of California. Section 4: Said real property is more particularly described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference. The above and foregoing resolution was duly and regularly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the -1- City of Saratoga held on the .19th. day of ...... September , 1973, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Smith, Dwyer, Bridges and Diridon NOES: None ABSENT: councilman Kraus ATTEST: -2- EXHIBIT "A" All of the certain real property situate in the City of Saratoga, County of Santa Clara., State of California, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the Southwesterly line of Sara. toga.- Los Gatos Road a.t the most Easterly corner of land described in Deed to Belle McGuire Bakewell, recorded Sep'tember 24, 1937 in Book 844 of Official Records, page 173; thence South 43° 55' 00'1 East along said Southwesterly line of said road 139.28 feet more or less to the most Northerly corner of land described in Deed to Beatrice H. King, recorded April 11, 1924 in Book 80 of Official Records, page 206; thence South 45° 31' 00" West along the North- easterly line of land described in Deed to King i0.00 feet; thence North 43° 55' 00" East along a line parallel to and 10.00 feet South of the aforementioned Southwesterly line of Saratoga-Los Ga. tos Road 139.28 feet more or less; thence North 45° 31' 00" East along the Southeasterly line of land described in Deed to Bakewell 10.00 feet to the point of beginning. Description of property to be condemned from Cermak for Highway Walkway. · 0 O . 0 ,. ,> " t: D o ~ r' O , O , ~