Resolution 03032RESOLUTION NO. 3032
GRANTING PERMIT TO SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY TO CONSTRUCT,
MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A RAILROAD SPUR TRACK ACROSS BLANDING
AVENUE IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA.
BE 'IT RESOLVED-BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA as follows:
SECTION 1. That a permit be, and is hereby, granted to Southern Pacific
Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns to construct, reconstruct,
maintain and operate a single railroad spur track upon and along a portion of
Blanding Avenue and across Everett Street, in the City of Alameda, County of
Alameda, State of California, the location of the center line of said spur track
being particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the center line of Blanding
Avenue drill track in the City of Alameda, said point being
58 feet, more or less, southeasterly from the intersection of
the center line of said track with the easterly line of Everett
Street; thence northwesterly through a Standard No. 7 turnout
to the left a distance of 72 feet, more or less, to a point;
thence on a curve to the left, having a radius of 286.84 feet,
an arc distance of 42 feet, more or less, to a point; thence
northwesterly tangent to curve at last mentioned point a dis-
tance of 30 feet, more or less, to a point; thence continuing
northwesterly on a curve concave to the right, having a radius
of 286.84 feet, an arc distance of 27 feet, more or less, to a
point on the southerly line of Blanding Avenue, said point
being 52 feet, more or less, northwesterly from the intersec-
tion of said southerly line of Blanding Avenue with the wester-
ly line of Everett Street,
said center line location being also shown by a red line as drawn on a map marked
"Western Div'n. Drawing A -672, Sheet No. 2,"dated June 10, 1944, attached to and
forming a part of said Southern Pacific Company's application dated,August 2,
1944, on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Alameda and marked
filed August 15, 1944, which map is hereby referred to and made a part hereof.
SECTION 2. This permit is granted on and subject to the following
terms and conditions:
(a) That said spur track shall be used for the transportation of freight
only and shall not be used as a main line or part thereof.
(b) That said spur track shall be constructed and maintained level with
the street or streets along or across which said spur track is laid.
(c) That all switching movements over such spur track shall be so con-
ducted as not to block longer than is necessary for ordinary switching operations
the streets which are crossed by such spur track or to otherwise interfere with
the use of the streets by the public.
(d) That this permit shall be indeterminate and shall be revocable with-
out compensation at any time at the option of the Council of the City of Alameda.
(e) That said spur track shall be operated under such regulations and
conditions as may be prescribed from time to time by the City Council of the City
of Alameda.
(f) That all construction, operation and maintenance work of said spur
track shall be performed without cost or expense to the City of Alameda and that
said permittee shall repave, repair and otherwise restore the portions of any
street damaged or disturbed by the installation of such spur track, using the
same kind of material and construction as now exists in the portions of any such
street adjacent to the portions of said street wherein said spur track shall be
installed.
(g) That on revocation of this permit the permittee shall, at its own
cost and expense, forthwith remove said spur track and repave, macadamize or
otherwise restore the portions of the street damaged or disturbed by such removal,
using the same kind of material and construction as shall be used by the City of
Alameda upon the portion of the street adjacent to said spur track.
(h) In the event that the permittee shall neglect or refuse to repave,
repair or otherwise restore the portions of any street damaged or disturbed by the
installation of said spur track as provided in Paragraph (f) above, or in the event
that permittee shall neglect or refuse to remove such spur track or to repave and
restore said street after the removal of said track as hereinbefore provided in
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Paragraph (g), then the City of Alameda may cause such repaving, repair or
restoration to be made or such track to be removed or the work of repairing,
macadamizing and otherwise restoring said street to be done, and permittee
shall thereupon be obligated to pay to the City the amount of the reasonable
expenses incurred by the City for any such purposes.
(i) The construction by the permittee herein named of said spur
track shall be deemed an acceptance by the permittee of all the terms and
obligations set forth in this permit.
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was
duly and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda
in regular meeting assembled on the 15th day of August, 1944, by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Branscheid, Howe, Jones, Osborn and President
Godfrey, (5).
NOES: None.
ABSENT:. None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the offi-
cial seal of said City this 16th day of August, 1944.
LORENE R. BEATIE
(SEAL) City Clerk of the City of Alameda
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I, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
"Resolution No. 3032, GRANTING PERMIT TO SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY TO CONSTRUCT,
MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A RAILROAD SPUR TRACK ACROSS BLANDING AVENUE IN THE CITY OF
ALAMEDA," introduced and adopted by the Council on the 15th day of August, 1944.
Clerk of the C ty of Alameda