70R-225
RESOLUTION NO. 70R- 225
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO GRANT
TO THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COM-
PANY A F~CHISE TO CONSTRUCT, ~mINTAIN AND
OPERATE A DRILL TRACK ACROSS HOWELL AVENUE
IN THE CITY OF ANAHEIM.
WHEREAS, Southern Pacific Transportation Company has,
by letter dated November 17, 1969, submitted its application to
the City of Anaheim for permission to construct, maintain and
operate a drill track across Howell Avenue in the City of Anaheim;
and
WHEREAS, Section 1401 of the Charter of the City of
Anaheim requires that the City Council pass a resolution declar-
ing its intention to grant a franchise and fixing a date and place
when and where any person interested therein may object to the
granting of said franchise; and
WHEREAS, Section 1401 of the Charter of the City of
Anaheim provides that said resolution also contain the terms and
conditions upon which it is proposed to grant said franchise.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Anaheim that it hereby declares its intention to
grant a franchise to the Southern Pacific Transportation Company
to construct, maintain and operate a drill track over the follow-
ing described property;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any person having an
interest in or objecting to the granting of said franchise may
be heard on the 2nd day of June , 1970, at
1:30 o'clock P.M. or as soon thereafter as the matter may be
heard.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Anaheim hereby declares that it proposes to grant said
franchise on the following terms and conditions:
1. The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby grants
to the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, the
right to construct, maintain and operate a drill
track across the following described property:
That portion of the southeast quarter of Section 23,
Township 4 South, Range 10 West, S.B.B. & M. lying
parallel with and 5 feet on each side of the center-
line of railroad track described as follows:
Commencing at the intersection of the centerline of
Lewis Street as shown on that certain Map recorded
March 6, 1967, in Book 6, page 44, of the Parcel Maps,
in the Office of the Recorder of Orange County, with
the centerline of that certain strip of land known as
Howell Avenue and described in that certain indenture
dated March 4, 1968, from the Southern Pacific Company,
to the Cit~ of Anaheim, recorded in Book 8843, page
95~ of Offlcial Records, on January 13, 1969, in the
Office of said Recorder; thence North 890 46' 15" East,
along said centerline of Howell Avenue, 1006.37 feet,
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to the true point of beginning; thence northerly, at
right angles to last said centerline, 32 feet, to the
north line of the land described in said indenture;
thence southerly in reverse direction, along last said
line 64 feet to the south line of the land described in
said indenture.
2. The term of said franchise is indeterminate and shall
endure in full force and effect until the same shall
be voluntarily surrendered or abandoned by Southern
Pacific Transportation Company, or until the State of
California, or some other municipal or public corpora-
tion, thereunto duly authorized by law, shall purchase
by voluntary agreement or shall condemn and take, under
the power of eminent domain, all property actually used
and useful in the exercise of such franchise and
situate within the territorial limits of the State,
municipal or public corporation purchasing or condemning
such property, or until the franchise shall be forfeited
for non-compliance with its terms by the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company. It is understood and agreed by
the Southern Pacific Transportation Company that in the
event the City of Anaheim determines to commence eminent
domain proceedings to acquire said franchise, that no
value shall be placed upon the franchise privilege,
either in valuation or voluntary purchase or by way of
valuation pursuant to eminent domain proceedings.
3. Southern Pacific Transportation Company shall comply
with all lawful ordinances, rules and regulations here-
tofore or hereafter adopted by the City Council in the
exercise of its police power governing its construction,
maintenance and operation of the drill track constructed
pursuant to this franchise.
4. Southern Pacific Transportation Company shall pay to the
City of Anaheim on demand the cost of all repairs to
public property made necessary by any of the operations
of Southern Pacific Transportation Company under said
franchise.
5. Southern Pacific Transportation Company agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless the City and its officers
and employees from any and all liability for damages
proximately resulting from any operations under said
franchise.
6. Southern Pacific Transportation Company shall remove
and relocate without expense to the City any facilities
installed, used and maintained under the franchise if
and when made necessary by any lawful change of grade,
alignment or width of any public street, way, alley
or place, including the construction of any subway or
elevated transfer facilities, or by the construction
or improvement of any public property or facility, or
if the public health, comfort, welfare, convenience,
or safety so demands.
7. Southern Pacific Transportation Company shall pay all
costs and expense of constructing the drill track herein
referred to and all safety and protective devices in-
stalled, whether voluntarily or by order of the City of
Anaheim or the Public Utilities Commission of the State
of California.
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8. Southern Pacific Transportation Company shall pay all
costs and expense of maintaining any safety and pro-
tective devices constructed and installed on the pro-
perty herein described. In the event that the Public
Utilities Commission of the State of California deter-
mines now or hereafter that the City of Anaheim is
required tc pay any costs and expense of constructing
or maintaining any of the track or protective devices
installed pursuant to this franchise, then this fran-
chise shall automatically terminate and be of no further
force and effect. In that event, Southern Pacific
Transportation Company will remove all track and pro-
tective devices inst~lled pursuant to this franchise
within thirty (30) days after written notification by
the City so to do.
9. Southern P_cific Transportation Company shall pay to the
City a sum of money sufficient to reimburse'the City
for all publication expenses incurred by it in connec-
tion with the granting of this franchise. Such payment
shall be m~de within thirty (30) days after the City
furnishes the grant to the Southern Pacific Transporta-
tion Company with a written statement of such expenses.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and signed by me
this 5th day of May__, 1970.
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I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 70R-225 was intro-
duced and adopted at a ~egular meeting provided by law, of the City
Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 5th day of May, 1970,
by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Clark, Stephenson, Pebley, Thorn and Dutton
NOES: COUNCIl.MEN: None
ABSENT : COUNCILMEN: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim
approved and signed saio Resolution No. 70R-225 on the 5th day of
May, 1970.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 5th day of May, 1970.
(SEAL)
I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby certify that the foregoing is the original of Resolution No.
70R-225 duly passed and adopted by the Anaheim City Council on
May 5, 1970.
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