HomeMy WebLinkAbout54-135 RESOLUTION NO. ~4-!~_.._AUTHORIZING CONDEMNATION OF CERTAIN
PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC STREET PURPOSES TO WIDEN SEVENTEENTH
STREET AND DECLARING THE PUBLIC NECESSITY THEREFOR
WHEREAS, Seventeenth Street, as it exists in the City of
Santa Ana, California, adjacent to the Easterly City Limits, is
inadequate in width to accommodate the present and future demands
of traffic thereon and constitutes a present and continuing traffic
hazard;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the City Council of
the City of Santa Aha does hereby find and determine that public
interest and necessity require that East Seventeenth Street be
widened to a standard width of 80 feet from Grand Avenue to the
Easterly City Limits as shown on a map thereof on file in the Of-
fice of the City Enginee~ and hereby referred to for greater detail,
to accommodate the present and future demands of traffic thereon and
further require that said City do, have, take and acquire an ease-
ment for said purpose in, over and through that certain parcel of real
property lyin~ in the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of
California, described as:
The:North 40 feet of that portion of the Northwest quarter
of Section 8, in Township 5 South, Range 9 West, San Bernardino
Base and Meridian, in the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange,
State of California, described as follows:
Beginning at the Northeast corner of the tract allotted to Rosa
Sore in the Partition of the Rancho Santiago de Santa Aha in
1868 by decree in Case No. 1192, in the District Court of the
17th Judicial District of the State of California in and for
Los Angeles County; runnin~ thence South along the East line
of said Tract, 196.00 feet, thence West, parallel with the North
line of said Tract, 96.00 feet; thence North parallel with said
East line, 196.00 feet to said North line; thence East along
said North line 96.00 feet to the point of beginning.
EXCEPTINg FROM said North 40 feet the portions inc]uOed ~lthin
the lines of Seventeenth Street on the North and M~!bury S$~eet
on the East.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the City Attorney be and he is
hereby ordered and directed to brin~ an action in the name of the City
of Santa Aha in the Superior Court of the State of California in and
for the County of Orange, for condemnation of said property necessary
to be taken as herein ordered and heretofore described and do all
thin~s necessary to prosecute said action to final determination.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the public interest,necessity
and convenience require and it is hereby ordered, that the City of
Santa Ana, a Municipal Corporation, Plaintiff in the condemnation
action ordered herein, take immediate possession and use of the
property herein ordered to be acquired, upon complying with the re-
quirements of the law applicable thereto and that the City Attorney
report to the City Council, the amount of money required therefor
as soon as the same has been ascertained.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the said action for condemna-
tion of said property so to be acquired shall be taken in accordance
with Section 14, Article I of the Constitution of the State of Cal-
ifornia.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Ana
at
its regular meeting held on the 2nd day of August, 1954.
ATTEST:
~F~COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNrI~Z- OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, ERMA KEELER, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the
Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the foreffoing Resolution was
resularly introduced to the said Council at its regular meetin~ held
on the 2nd day of August. 1954 and was at said meeting regularly
passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES, ~0UNCILMEN: William Jerome, J. L. McBride,
Thomas F. Larsen, Milford W. Dahl
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT, COUNCI~EN: Courtney R.
Chandler
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL