1953-2173RESOLUTION NO. 2173
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO CALL A
SPECIAL ELECTION TO SUBMIT TO THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS RESIDING IN THE HEREINAFTER DE-
SCRIBED TERRITORY THE QUESTION OF ANNEXATION
OF SAID TERRITORY TO THE CITY OF ANAHEIM.
WHEREAS, on the 10th day of February
19 53 H. W. Saulsbery, C. E. Slack, L. P. Nichols, H. R. Wilson, J.
T. Zeller, Lena M. Wilson and Minnie Fisher (formerly Minnie Hirt)
filed a written request with the City Council of the City of
Anaheim requesting the consent of the City Council to the
commencement of proceedings for the annexation of certain in-
habited territory, more particularly hereinafter described, to
the City of Anaheim pursuant to the provisions of the Annexation
Act of 1913 (Title IV, Division 2, Part 2, Chapter 1, Articles
1 to 4 inclusive, of the Government Code of California); and
WHEREAS, the City Council did on the 10th day of
February 19 53 refer said request and applicat-
ion to the City Planning Commission; and
WHEREAS, on the 24th day of February
19 53 the City Council did receive from the City Planning
Commission its recommendation approving the proposed annexation;
and
WHEREAS, the proposal for the annexation of said
territory to the City of Anaheim has been submitted to the
Boundary Commission of the County of Orange for its report to
the proponents with respect to the definiteness and certainty
of the proposed boundaries; that said Boundary Commission has
(has not) reported upon the petition or proceedings within
twenty (20) days after it was submitted to it; and
`-THEREAS, said City Council did, on the 24th day of
February 19 53 adopt Resolution No. 2101
giving its consent to the commencement of said annexation pro-
ceedings and approving the circulation of a petition for the
annexation of said territory to the City of Anaheim; and
WHEREAS, on the llth day of March
19 53 said proponents did publish a notice of intention to
circulate a petition for the annexation of the hereinafter de-
scribed property to the City of Anaheim, and within ten (10)
days thereafter did file with the City Clerk of the City of
Anaheim.a Dopy of such notice of intention to circulate a petit-
ion for the annexation to the City of Anaheim of said territory,
which notice contained the names of the proponents intending to
circulate the petition and the specific boundaries of the terr-
itory proposed to be annexed, accompanied by a printed state-
ment, not exceeding five hundred (500) words in length, contain-
ing reasons for the petition, together with an affidavit of the
publication of said notice of intention to circulate said
petition; and
JHEREAS, within fifteen (15) days after the filing of
said notice of intention to circulate said petition, accompanied
by said affidavit of publication, the City Council did, on the
24th day of March 19 53 adopt Resolution
No.2130 finding and determining that it would be to the advan-
tage and for the best interest of the City of Anaheim and the
qualified electors residing within the hereinafter described
territory, to approve the circulation of a petition for the
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annexation of said territory to the City of Anaheim and did there-
upon approve the circulation of said petition; and
WHEREAS, on the 9th day of June 1953,
the City Council did receive a petition signed by not less than
one fourth of the qualified electors residing within the territory
hereinafter described, as shown by the County Registration of
Voters, containing a descri»tion of the new territory proposed to
be annexed to the City of Anaheim and asking that said territory
be annexed to the City; and the City Council does find and de-
termine that said proponents have done and performed the acts and
things required to be done and performed by the Annexation Act
of 1913, at the time and in the manner as required by the pro-
visions of said Act; and that said petition was circulated more
than twenty -one (21) days after the publication of notice of in-
tention to circulate such petition and that it is signed by not
less than one fourth of the qualified electors residing within
the territory proposed to be annexed, as shown by the County
Registration of Voters and as appears from the certificate of the
City Clerk of the City of Anaheim presented to the City Council
at the time of consideration of said petition and prior to the
adoption of this resolution; and does further find that more than
twelve (12) qualified electors resided within the boundaries of
the territory proposed to be annexed at the time of the filing
of said petition for said annexation; and does further find, from
evidence and reports received and from said petition, that at
the time of the filing and presentation of said petition, that
said new territory proposed to be annexed to said City of Anaheim
did not form a part of any other city or municipal corporation,
and that said territory was, at the time of filing said petition
inhabited territory and is contiguous to the City of Anaheim; and
WHEREAS, the City Council does further find that it
would be to the advantage and for the best interests of the City
of Anaheim, and the residents thereof, and the qualified electors
residing within the territory proposed to be annexed, as herein-
after more particularly described, to submit the question of the
annexation of said territory to the City of Anaheim to the elect-
ors residing within said territory; and
WHEREAS, the City Council does further find that said
territory should be designated by some appropriate name by which
it may be referred to upon the ballots used at the election at
which the question of annexation of said territory to the City of
Anaheim shall be submitted to the electors residing within said
territory and that an appropriate designation for such territory
is L OARA CRESCENT AN and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds from said petition and
evidence and reports received that the boundaries of the territory
so proposed and sought to be annexed to the City of Anaheim are
as follows, to -wit: Said territory is situated in the County of
Orange, State of California, and the specific boundaries thereof
are as follows:
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A tract of land lying within Sections 8 and 9, Township 4
South, Range 10 West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, and
more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point which is the intersection of the Souther-
ly R/W line of La Palma Avenue (FO feet wide) and the West line
of E 1 of NW* of Sec. 9, T4S, R10W, S. B. B. k M., said West
line also being the existing City Limits line of the City of
Anaheim; thence,
1st: Southerly 2265.03 feet, more or less, along said exist-
ing City Limits line to an angle point, said angle point also
being on the monumented center line of North Street (60 feet
wide);thence,
2nd: Northeasterly 1324.95 feet, more or less, along said
existing City Limits Line'and center line of said North Street
to an angle point; thence,
3rd: Southerly 1175 feet, more or less, along the existing
City Limits Line to a point, said point being on the Northerly
R/W line of Purton Street (60 ft. wide) and also being the most
Northeasterly corner of the Burton Street Annexation to the
City of Anaheim, passed by Ordinance No. 811, August 12, 1952;
thence,
4th: Southwesterly g67 feet, more or less, along the said
northerly R/W line of Burton Street and the northerly line of
said Purton Street Annexation to an angle point; thence,
5th: Southerly 1020.16 feet, more or less, along the westerly
line of said Burton Street Annexation to an angle point which
is the most southwesterly corner of said Burton Street Annex-
ation and also on the previously existing City Limits Line.
6th: Westerly 428,67 feet, more or less, along the existing
City Limits Line to a point on the Westerly R/W line of Loara
Street (40 ft. wide), said Westerly R/W line also being the
easterly line of the Euclid Avenue Annexation to the City of
Anaheim, passed by Ordinance No. 773, February 20, 1951; thence,
7th: Northerly 17 feet, more or less, along said Westerly
R/W line of Loara Street and the Easterly line of the said
Euclid Avenue Annexation to a point; thence,
8th: Westerly 442 feet, more or less, along the Northerly
line of s aid Euclid Avenue Annexation to an angle point;
thence,
9th: Southerly 66.29 feet, more or less, along the westerly
line of said Euclid Avenue Annexation to an angle point; thence,
10th: Northwesterly'383.05 feet, more or less, along a curb,
concave to the north, said curve also being the northeasterly
line of said Euclid Avenue Annexation to an angle point; thence,
11th: Northwesterly 408.06 feet, more or less, along the north-
easterly line of said Euclid Avenue Annexation to an angle point;
thence,
12th: Northerly 216.70 feet, more or less, along the easterly
line of said Euclid Avenue Annexation to a point in the south-
easterly line of the Crescent Avenue Annexation to the City of
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Anaheim, passed by Ordinance No. 819, October 28, 1952; thence,
13th: Easterly 506 feet, more or less, along the southerly line
of said Crescent Avenue. Annexation to an angle point; thence,
14th: Northerly 1300 feet, more or less along the easterly line
of said Crescent Avenue Annexation to a point on the southerly
R/W line of Crescent Avenue (40 feet wide); thence,
15th: Westerly 630 feet, more or less, along the northerly line
of said Crescent Avenue Annexation and the southerly R/W line
of said Crescent Avenue to a point which is the most northwest-
erly corner of said Crescent Avenue Annexation and also the most
southeasterly R/W corner of the intersection of said Crescent
and Euclid Avenue (60 feet wide), said point also being in the
easterly line of the Montgomery Annexation to the City of Ana-
heim, passed by Ordinance No. 818, September 10, 1952; thence,
16th: Northerly 40 feet, more or less, along the easterly line
of said Montgomery Annexation to a point which is the most
northeasterly R/W corner of said Crescent Avenue and Euclid
Avenue; thence
17th: Westerly 1350 feet, more or less, along the northerly
R/W line of said Crescent Avenue and northerly line of said
Montgomery Annexation to a point; thence,
18th: Southerly 875 feet, more or less, along the westerly line
of said Montgomery Annexation and its southerly extension to a
point on the southerly R/W line of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company; thence,
19th: Northwesterly 3930 feet, more or less, along said south
westerly R/W line of Southern Pacific Railroad Company to a point
of intersection with the South line of the Na of NWe of Section
8, T4S, RlOW, S. B. B. M; thence,
20th: Easterly 2000 feet, more or less, along the said southerly
line of the N of NW* of Section 8, T4S, S. B. B. M., to the
east line of the N of NW* of SectionG,T4S, S. B. B. M.; thence,
21st: Northerly 1290 feet, more or less, along the said Easterly
line of the Ni of NW* of Section 8, T4S, S. B. B. M. to the
southerly R/W line of La Palma Avenue, said point also being on
the southerly line of the pending Houston Avenue Annexation to
the City of Anaheim; thence,
22nd: Easterly 3926.27 feet, more or less, along the southerly
R/W line of said La Palma Avenue; and the southerly line of the
proposed Houston Avenue Annexaion and its easterly extension;
and the existing City Limits Line and its westerly extension;
to the point of beginning.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Anaheim that it does hereby declare its intention to
call a special election on the 6th day of August
19 53 for the purpose of submitting to the electors residing
in the hereinabove described new territory, the question whether
said new territory shall be annexed to, incorporated in, and made
a part of the City of Anaheim and the property therein be, after
such annexation, subject to taxation equally with the property
within said City of Anaheim, to pay its pro rata share, based
upon assessed valuation, of all of the bonded indebtedness of
said City of Anaheim outstanding on the 9th day of
June 19 53 or theretofore authorized; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the territory so proposed
to be annexed shall be designated as LOARA CRESCENT
ANNEXATION and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 30th day of June
19 53 at the hour of 8:00
o'clock P. M. in the City Council Chamber of the City Hall of
the City of Anaheim be, and the same is hereby, fixed as the day,
hour and place when and where any person owning real property
within the territory so proposed to be annexed and having any
objections to the proposed annexation, may appear before the City
Council of the City of Anaheim and show cause why such territory
should not be so annexed; that all persons having any objections
to such proposed annexation are hereby notified to appear on said
day, at said hour and place, to show cause, if any they have, why
such territory should not be so annexed, and all such persons are
further notified that any protests against the calling of an
election to submit to the electors residing within said territory
the question of annexation of said territory to the City of Ana-
heim, or any protests against the annexation of said territory to
the City of Anaheim must be in writing and may be filed with the
City Clerk of the City of Anaheim at any time not later than the
hour and date set forth herein for the hearing of objections to
said election.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk of the
City of Anaheim be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to
cause a copy of this resolution to be published at least once a
week for two weeks prior to the date hereinabcve fixed for the
hearing of protests and objections to said election and the annex-
ation of said territory to the City of Anaheim, in the ANAHEIM
BULLETIN, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circu-
lated in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of Calif-
ornia.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is signed and approved by me
this 9th day of June 19 53
ATTEST:
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CITY CLE• OF C T ANAHEIM
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss
CITY OF ANAHEIM
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I, CHARLES E. GRIFFITH, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted at a
regular meeting of the city council of the City df Anaheim held on the 9th
day of June, 1953, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Pearson, Wisser, Heying and Van W goner.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMAN: Boney.
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim approved
and signed said resolution on the 9th day of June, 1953.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of the City of Anaheim this 9th day of June, 1953.
C' y Clerk o ity of Anaheim