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136 part of the Minutes a~follows: 'Your committee appointed to investigate the report that the property lying adjacent to and fronting upon Santa Aha Boulevard was always to remain in a Single Family ResidenCe District, reports as follows: That the cost of the improvement of Santa Aha Boulevard was approximately $297,000.00. That out of said cost of the total improvement, the right of way.for said Santa Ana Boulevard cost approximately $%3,000.00, that in order to persuade and induce the property owners residing in said district to vote in favor of the annexation of said strip and the opening of said right-of-way that a meeting was held of the property owners in said district along which said right of way was opened, at which time all of the then members of the City Council including Councilmen Purington, Kelly, Goode and McBride were present at the home of James Smiley, with the said residents in said district, and that at said time the said property owners were advised that when said property became annexed to the City of Santa Aha that it would be automatically in the Single Family Residence District, and the same members of the Council pledged their word that they would not allow said property to be devoted to anything other than Single Family Residence purposes; That your committee is advised that relying upon said pro- mises the said property owners voted to annex said property to the City and to permit the opening of said Santa Aha Boulevard; that your committee feels that ~he changing of any portion of said property from Single Family Residence Dis- trict to such use or business purposes is a breach of good faith with such property owners and citizens and therefore I recommend that no permits f~r special use or business use be granted upon the property fronting upon said Santa Ana Boule- yard. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) P. W. Bruns" In Re On motion of Trustee Bruns, seconded by Smith and carried, Application W. C. Kester. the recommendation of the Planning Commission was accepted and the application of W. C. Kester was denied to erect a twelve unit auto court immediately east of the $ilmore 0il Company's distributing plant fronting Santa Ana Boulevard. In Re On motion of Trustee Bruns, seconded by Penn and carried, the Parking Stalls City Engineer and Street Commissioner were appointed as a com. on N. Broadway. mittee to confer with the Board of Supervisors and Engineer on the West side of B~ relative to closing curbing in front of the Court House Annex to permit more parking space. The motion of Trustee Layton to adopt the following Resolu- ResolUtion to tion: Acquire Property for Parks. "AResolution of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana submitting to the electors of said City an Ordinance declaring that public necessity and convenience require the acquisition of certain real property for public purposes" Amended--See Minutes ............................................ / October 18th, 1937. was duly seconded by Trustee Bruns to brlng the matter up for discussion. The motion of Trustee Smith to postpone consideration of this Resolution indefinitely, was lost for lack of a second. The motion to adoptthe the Resolution was lost By the follow- lng vote: A~es, Trustees Ernest H. Layton, Fred C. Rowland. Noes, Trustees Plummet W. Bruns, Joseph P. Smith, W. H. Penz Absent, Trustees None. On motion of Trustee Layton, seconded by Bruns and carried, the City Council adjourned.