Resolution 08420495
CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO, 8420
FINDING AND DETERMINING PORTION OF BLANDING AVENUE, A PUBLIC STREET
IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA, IS UNNECESSARY FOR PRESENT OR PROSPECTIVE
PUBLIC STREET PURPOSES; ORDERING VACATION THEREOF SUBJECT TO
RESERVATION OF PERMANENT EASEMENT AND RIGHT-OF-WAY THEREIN AS
DESCRIBED IN RESOLUTION OF INTENTION NO, 8417 HERETOFORE ADOPTED ON
SEPTEMBER 16, 1975; AND DIRECTING CITY CLERK TO CAUSE CERTIFIED
COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO BE RECORDED
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Alameda did, on the 16th day of September, 1975, adopt
its Resolution of Intention No. 8417 declaring its intention to order the vacation of an improved
portion of a public street, being a portion of Blanding Avenue containing 0.0785 acres more or less,
and more particularly described as follows:
Real property in the City of Alameda, County of Alameda, State of California,
described as follows:
COMMENCING at the intersection of the Northeastern line of Blanding Avenue with the
Southeastern line of Broadway;
THENCE along said Northeastern line of Blanding Avenue South 55 3603' East 266,70 feet
to the point of intersection with the Northwesterly line of the land described
in the Deed dated March 28, 1907 from Martha A, Cornelius, et vir, to the
Southern Pacific Company, recorded March 30, 1907, in Book 1337 of Deeds,
Alameda County Records, Page 160, which is the True Point of Beginning:
THENCE South 34 2357" West along said Northwesterly line 60.00 feet to the Southwesterly
line cf said Blanding Avenue;
THENCE along last said Southwesterly line of Blanding Avenue North 55 3603 West 9.45
feet;
THENCE from a tangent bearing North 14, 4513" West, along the arc of a 271 foot radius
curve to the left, through a central angle of 28 46'05', a distance of 136.07
feet to a point of cusp on the Northeasterly line of,Blanding Avenue;
THENCE along last said line South 55 3603" East 129.98 feet to the True Point of
Beginning,
Containing 0.0785 acres more or less,
subject, however, to the reservation in the City of Alameda, pursuant to Section 8330 and 8331 of the
Streets and Highways Code of California, of a permanent easement and right-of-way over and across
and under the above described parcel of land, whole and entire, for the prupose of constructing,
operating, maintaining, replacing, renewing and repairing thereon all public utilities includinp, but
not limited to, storm sewer pipe lines and outfalls and facilities for transmission cf water and
electricity. Said easement and right-of-way shall provide to the City of Alameda all rights to
enter upon the easement for the purposes as set out above. Said easement shall vest the control of
all improvements thereon with the City Engineer of the City of Alameda, and it shall be necessary for
the owners of the land through which the easement exists to procure from the office of the City
Engineer a permit or permits for any and all improvements to be constructed on the surface of the
ground; and
WHEREAS, particulars of the proposed vacation are shown on that certain map entitled,
"Street Abandonment Blanding Avenue," prepared by Creegan & D'Angelo, Consulting Engineers, dated
November 12, 1973, denominated Drawing 6992, Case 52 in the City Engineer's records, and on file
in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Alameda; and
WHEREAS, the City Clerk of the City of Alameda caused said Resolution of Intention to be
duly published and notice thereof and of the time and place of hearing thereon was duly posted in
accordance with the requirements of Part 3 of Division 9, of the Streets and Highways Code of
California; and
WHEREAS, proof of said publication is evidenced by an affidavit of publication now on file
in the office of the City Clerk of said City; and
WHEREAS, proof of said posting of such notices is evidenced by the affidavit of the person
posting said notices, and is now on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City; and
WHEREAS, the matter of said proposed vacation came on regularly for hearing before the
Council of the City of Alameda at this, its regular meeting, on the 7th day of October, 1975, and at
the time and place fixed in said Resolution of Intention, and at such hearing the said Council heard
the evidence offered by all persons interested in said street vacation; and a full hearing thereon
having been had and the matter submitted for determination;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY 05 ALAMEDA that said Council
hereby finds and determines, from all the evidence submitted, that the certain portion of said
Blanding Avenue in said Resolution of Intention and hereinbefore more particularly described is
unnecessary for present and prospective public street purposes and that public interest requires the
vacation of said street.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the street in said Resolution of Intention and hereinbefore
more particularly described be, and the same is hereby vacated, subject, however, to the
reservation in the City of Alameda of the easement and right-cf-way hereinabove set forth.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk is hereby directed to cause a certified copy
of this Resolution recorded in the office of the Recorder of Alameda County. California.
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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
7th day of October, 1975, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Beckam, Diement, Hurwitz, Sherratt and President Corica, (5).
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said
City this 8th day of October, 1975.
(SEAL) ETHEL 1. PITT
City Clerk of the City of A1aeda
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of "City of Alameda
Resolution No, 8420, FINDING AND DETERMINING PORTION OF BLANDING AVENUE, A PUBLIC STREET IN THE
CITY OF ALAMEDA, IS UNNECESSARY FOR PRESENT 08 PROSPECTIVE PUBLIC STREET PURPOSES; ORDERING VACATION
THEREOF SUBJECT TO RESERVATION OF PERMANENT EASEMENT AND RIGHT-OF-WAY THEREIN AS DESCRIBED IN
RESOLUTION OF INTENTION NO. 8417 HERETOFORE ADOPTED ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1975; AND DIRECTING CITY
CLERK TO CAUSE CERTIFIED COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO BE RECORDED", introduced and adopted by the
Council of the City of Alameda on the 7th day of October, 1975,
City Clerk of the City of Alameda