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RESOLUTION N0. ~~
RESOLUTION OF THE CTTY COUNCIL OF THF. CITY OF ARROYO GitANDE,
GOUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, REGARDING THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE MOVING OF THE ROUTE OF U.S. HIGffirJAY ¢f 101.
Before the Gity Council of the City of Arroyo Grande, County
of San Luis Obispo, State of California, the following Resolution
is now offered:
WHEREAS, The Gity Council of the City of Arroyo Grande,
County of San Luis Obispo, State of California is informed that
the California Highway Commission is considering the passibility
of moving the route of the present U.S. Highway ~r'101 so as to
take said highway outside of the City of Arroyo Grande, and to
the West of th.e present route of said Highway through the Gity
of Arroyo Grande, and
4'JF'EREA5, the said City Council underatanda that if said
proposed move is-made that any new highway will be established
as a freeway, and
WiiEREAS, the present route of sai$ Highway throu~,h the City
of Arroyo Grande has a right of way of the width of / p-a feet,
and
WHEREAS, in the opinion of the said City Council, the present
route of said highway through the City of tirroyo Grande with certain
minor irnprovementa and repairs to the right of way and to highway
structures, particularly bridr;es, can and will be sufficient for
all reasonable uses to v3hich said Highway can or will be put within
the forseeab3:e future, and
WHEREAS, in the opinion of tho said City Council, said minor
improvements and repairs can be made att a cost far below that of
procuring a, new right-of-way and of erecting a complztely new High-
way and bridge, and
WHEREAS, tine present location of the said hir~hway affords to
the residents of the City of Arroyo Grande a scource, of income
necessary to their existence and to the existence of the City it-
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WHEREAS, the removal of the Highway from its present location
and its establishment as a freeway would deprive many parsons of
a livel;ihoad, and would seriously endanger the continued eaiatencs
of tMe,City of Arroyo Grande, and would tend to destroy property
,, values throughout the area= and
VfREAS, the removal of said highway to a new location and
its establishment as a freeway would, in the opinion of the said
CSty,Councilt bs more 'aoatly and more eapenaive than would the
improvement and repair oP the sainting right of way through the
City of, Arroyo t3raad®, and would not improve the tT.S, High~ray
#lOl so far as the motoring public is concerned in proportion
to the coat thereof, since the present route can be made entirely
ade,quat®,
N099 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City cf'Arroyo Grande, County of San Luia Obispo, Stets of
California that it oppoaea the moving of the U,S,Highway ~#~101
from its present lacatian where it passes through the City of
Arroyo Grande, and
BS IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the said City Council oppoaea
the establishment of the said Lf.S. Highway X101 as a freeway,
and
BE TT FURTHER RESOLVED that the said City Council favors
the improvement and repast of the present routs of said Highway
through the City of Arroyo Grande, and
BE TT FURTHER RESOLVED that the said City Council urges
the California Highway Commission to oonaentrate its engineering
and Financial resaouroes on the imprrovement and repair and main-
tainasxae.of the present Highway right-of-way, rather than seeking
or attempting to]oaets new rautaa of trawl which would alter the
present routs of said Highway through the Gity of Arroyo 4rands,and
BE.IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the said City Couriail that the
Honorable Chris N. Jeaperasn, Senator far the 89th Senatorial
~. _ Distriot and the Honorable James W, Silliman, Assemblyman for
~~' the 33rd Assembly M strict, bs and they era herewith requested
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to help and assist the C1ty of llrroyo Grande to resist any
and all atfrempts to remove the O.S. Eighway x'101 from its pre-
sent 'route through the City of Arroyo Grande or to set up said
highway as a freeway to the exclusion of those persons now main-
taining businesses along the route of tho present highway, and
BE IT FURTF~R RESOLVED by the said City Council that copies
of tYiis resolution'be forwarded to the said Honorable Chris N.
Jespersen,.Senator for the 29th Senatorial District, and to the
s~.id Honorable James W. Silliman, Assemblyman for the 33rd
Assembly District, and
BE IT FURTF.~R RESOLVED by the said City Council that copies
of this resolution be forwarded to the Oalifornia State Highway
Co:nmisaiori:at Sacramento, and L. H. Gibson, District Engineer,
Division V, San Luis Obispo, Cal~iforni}a.
On motion of Councilman /4h ~.,~ and second&d
by Counci
and on thQ following
roll call vote G
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ABSENT: ~~
the foregoing resolution was adopted this ~~-~day of November,
1947.