Resolution 08017CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 8017
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA
ON PETITION SIGNED BY FIFTEEN PERCENT (15%) OF THE REGISTERED
ELECTORS; CALLING A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN THE CITY OF
ALAMEDA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING TO THE ELECTORS THEREOF
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND SAID CHARTER, VIZ: BY ADOPTING SECTIONS
26 -1 AND 26 -2 OF A NEW ARTICLE XXVI TO BE ADDED THERETO, TO
PROVIDE THERE SHALL BE NO MULTIPLE DWELLING UNITS BUILT IN THE
CITY OF ALAMEDA EXCEPTING REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING LOW COST
HOUSING UNITS BY THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA
AND THE PROPOSED SENIOR CITIZENS LOW COST HOUSING COMPLEX,
PURSUANT TO ARTICLE XXV OF SAID CHARTER; FIXING THE DATE OF
SAID SPECIAL ELECTION, THE MANNER OF HOLDING SAME, AND PROVIDING
FOR NOTICE THEREOF; AND CONSOLIDATING SAID ELECTION WITH THE
GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA ON
MARCH 13,1973
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA as follows:
SECTION 1. The Council of the City of Alameda hereby proposes, on petition signed by
fifteen percent (15%) of the registered electors, to amend the Charter of the City of Alameda by
adopting Sections 26 -1 and 26 -2 of a new Article XXVI to be added to said Charter, to read as provided
in the notice entitled "Proposed Amendment to the Charter of the City of Alameda" hereinafter set
forth in Section 3 of this resolution.
SECTION 2. The Council of the City of Alameda hereby proposes to and does hereby, on
petition signed by fifteen percent (15 %) of the registered electors, submit to the qualified electors
of the City of Alameda, at the special municipal election hereinafter provided for, a proposal to amend
the Charter of the City of Alameda set forth in said notice hereinafter set forth in Section 3 of this
resolution and designates and refers to said proposal as the proposal to be set forth in the form of
ballot hereinafter prescribed for use at said special municipal election.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk of the City of Alameda is hereby ordered and directed to cause
said proposed amendment to the Charter of the City of Alameda to be published once, not less than
forty (40) and not more than sixty (60) days prior to the date of the special municipal election herein-
after provided for, in the ALAMEDA TIMES -STAR, the official newspaper of said City, and in each edition
thereof during the day of publication, said newspaper being a newspaper of general circulation published
at least six days a week in said City of Alameda; and such publication may be in substantially the
following form:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
to
THE CHARTER
of the
CITY OF ALAMEDA
Special Municipal Election March 13, 1973
(Consolidated with General Municipal Election)
The Council of the City of Alameda hereby proposes, on petition signed by fifteen (1511)
of the registered electors, to amend the Charter of the City of Alameda by adopting Sections 26 -1
and 26 -2 of a new Article XXVI thereof, to read:
"ARTICLE XXVI
Multiple Dwelling Units
"Sec. 26 -1. There shall be no multiple dwelling units built in
the City of Alameda.
"Sec. 26 -2. Exception being the Alameda Housing Authority
replacement of existing low cost housing units and the proposed
Senior Citizens low cost housing complex, pursuant to Article XXV
Charter of the City of Alameda."
The Council of the City of Alameda hereby proposes to and does hereby, on petition signed
by fifteen percent (15 %) of the registered electors, submit to the qualified electors of said City at
a special municipal election to be held in said City on Tuesday, March 13, 1973 (which said election
will be consolidated with the General Municipal Election to be held on March 13, 1973), the following
proposal to amend said Charter, in the manner hereinabove specifically set forth, as follows:
AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA
MEASURE A
Shall the Charter of the City of Alameda be amended to provide that there
shall be no multiple dwelling units built in the City of Alameda, exception
being the Alameda Housing Authority replacement of existing low cost housing
units and the proposed Senior Citizens low cost housing complex, pursuant to
Article XXV of said Charter? Said amendment will be accomplished by adopting
Sections 26 -1 and 26 -2 of a new Article XXVI thereof, all as fully set forth
in Resolution No. 8017 of the Council of the City of Alameda.
YES
NO
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Charter amendment proposal was ordered submitted
to the qualified electors of the City of Alameda by the Council of the City of Alameda on
January 16, 1973.
Dated: January 16, 1973.
IRMA L. NELSON
City Clerk of the City of Alameda
SECTION 4. (a) A special municipal election is hereby called to be held in the City of
Alameda on Tuesday, March 13, 1973, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of
said City said proposal set forth in Section 3 of this resolution to amend the Charter of said
City as in said proposal and in this resolution provided and as hereby submitted by the Council of
the City of Alameda on petition signed by fifteen percent (157) of the registered electors of said
City.
(b) Said special municipal election hereby called shall be held and conducted, and the
votes thereat canvassed and the returns thereof made, and the results thereof ascertained and
determined as herein provided, and in all particulars not prescribed in this resolution, said
special municipal election shall be held as provided for in the Charter of said City and in all
particulars not provided for therein said election shall be held as provided by law for the holding
of special municipal elections in the City of Alameda, and otherwise in accordance with the Elections
Code of the State of California.
(c) All persons qualified to vote at municipal elections in said City of Alameda on the
day of the election herein provided for shall be qualified to vote upon said amendment hereby
proposed by the Council of the City of Alameda, on petition signed by fifteen percent (157) of
the registered electors of said City, and submitted at said special municipal election.
(d) The polls at the polling places hereinafter designated for said special municipal
election shall be opened at 7:00 a.m. (P.S.T.) of said day of election, and shall be kept open
continuously thereafter until 7:00 p.m. (P.S.T.) of said day of election when the polls shall be
closed (except as provided in Section 14436 of the Elections Code), and the election officers
shall thereupon proceed to canvass the ballots cast thereat.
(e) Said special municipal election shall be and is hereby consolidated with the
General Municipal Election to be held in said City of Alameda on the date of said special municipal
election hereby called, and the election precincts, polling places and voting booths shall in every
case be the same, and there shall be only one set of election officers in each of said precincts;
and the precincts, polling places and officers of election for said special municipal election
shall be the same as those to be selected and designated by the Council of said City for said
General Municipal Election in said City of Alameda by Resolution No. 8014, to which resolution
reference is hereby made for a designation of the precincts, polling places and election officers
for the special municipal election hereby called.
(f) Only one form of ballot shall be used at said General Municipal Election and said
special municipal election hereby consolidated therewith, which, in addition to all other matters
required by law to be printed thereon, shall state the measure set forth in Section 3 hereof.
(g) Each voter may vote on the proposed Charter amendment. To vote in favor of the
proposal to amend the Charter of the City of Alameda a voter shall stamp a cross (X) in the blank
space opposite the word "YES" on the ballot to the right of the proposal, and to vote against
said proposal a voter shall stamp a cross (X) in the blank space opposite the word "NO" on the
ballot to the right of said proposal. The votes cast for and against the proposed charter amend-
ment shall be counted separate and apart from all other measures to be submitted at the special
municipal election hereby called for the purpose of submitting said charter amendment, and if a
majority of the qualified voters voting on the proposed charter amendment vote in favor thereof,
such charter amendment shall be deemed ratified.
(h) The returns of said election shall be made out and signed by the election officers
and shall be by them deposited with the City Clerk, together with the ballots cast at said election;
and this Council shall meet at its usual meeting place and canvass said returns on Tuesday, the
20th day of March, 1973, at the hour of 7:30 p.m. (P.S.T.) and declare the result of said election.
SECTION 5. Said proposed amendment set forth in Section 3 hereof shall be set forth in
the election proclamation and notice of General Municipal Election and Special Municipal Election
to be held on Tuesday, March 13, 1973, to be published in the time and form required by Section
19-9 of Article XIX of the Charter of the City of Alameda.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk of the City of Alameda is hereby authorized and directed (1)
to cause copies of the text of said proposed charter amendment to be printed in convenient pamphlet
form and in type of not less than ten-point and to cause copies thereof to be mailed to each of the
qualified electors of said City, and (2) until the day fixed for said special municipal election
to advertise daily in the ALAMEDA TINES-STAR, a newspaper of general circulation in said City, a
notice that copies of said pamphlet may be had on application therefor. Said notice shall be in
substantially the following form:
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NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF CHARTER AMENDMENT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the qualified electors of the City of Alameda that pamphlet
copies of the amendment proposed by the City Council, on petition signed by fifteen percent (157)
of the registered electors, to the Charter of the City of Alameda by adopting Sections 26 -1 and
26 -2 of a new Article XXVI thereof, to provide that there shall be no multiple dwelling units built
in the City of Alameda excepting replacement of existing low cost housing units by the Housing
Authority of the City of Alameda and the proposed Senior Citizens low cost housing complex, pursuant
to Article XXV of said Charter, are on file in the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, Alameda,
California 94501, and may be had on application therefor.
IRMA L. NELSON
City Clerk of the City of Alameda,
California
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
16th day of January, 1973, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Fore, Levy, Longaker, McCall and President La Croix, Jr., (5).
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said
City this 17th day of January, 1973.
(SEAL) IRMA L. NELSON
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 "City of Alameda
Resolution No. 8017, PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA ON PETITION
SIGNED BY FIFTEEN PERCENT (157) OF THE REGISTERED ELECTORS; CALLING A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION
IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING TO THE ELECTORS THEREOF A PROPOSAL TO AMEND
SAID CHARTER, VIZ: BY ADOPTING SECTIONS 26 -1 AND 26 -2 OF A NEW ARTICLE XXVI TO BE ADDED THERETO,
TO PROVIDE THERE SHALL BE NO MULTIPLE DWELLING UNITS BUILT IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA EXCEPTING
REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING LOW COST HOUSING UNITS BY THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA
AND THE PROPOSED SENIOR CITIZENS LOW COST HOUSING COMPLEX, PURSUANT TO ARTICLE XXV OF SAID CHARTER;
FIXING THE DATE OF SAID SPECIAL ELECTION, THE MANNER OF HOLDING SAME, AND PROVIDING FOR NOTICE
THEREOF; AND CONSOLIDATING SAID ELECTION WITH THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN THE CITY
OF ALAMEDA ON MARCH 13, 1973," introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda on the
16th day of January, 1973.
City Clerk of the City of Alameda