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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1422 RESOLUTION NO. 1422. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA APPROVING PROPOSED PLAN FOR THE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF ARCADIA AS AN ARBORETUM AND BOTANIC GARDEN. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOi/SI SECTION 1. WHEREAS, this City Council is informed that the Southern California Horticultural Institute, a non profit corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the state of California, desires to acquire a portion of Rancho Santa Anita, including the lake located thereon, consisting in all of approximately one hundred (100) acres, for use as an Arboretum and Botanic Garden, and VffiEREAS, this Council is further informed that in the event said site is acquired for such purposes it will be developed in such manner as to retain the natural beauty and historic and romantic value of the property, and at the same time said site will be used for the planting of trees, shrubs and other horticultural material from various parts of the world, with the prospects in view of (a) practical demonstration of horticultural possibilities in California, (b) a center of researoh and scientific study in collaboration with educational institutes, and with Federal, State and county Departments of Agriculture, (c) pUblicationsand bulletins dealing with matters of horticultural interest, and WHEREAS, in the opinion of this City Council the establish. ment and maintenance of such Arboretum and Botanic Garden will be of g~eat value to the people of the State of California, and WHEREAS, the preservation of said site established for the purposes herein set forth will be better insured by said site being acquired and owned by the State of California, or the County of Los Angeles, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that this Council does hereby approve of the establishment of an Arboretum and Botanic Garden within the City of Arcadia at the location herein described, end does hereby urge the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to acquire said property for the uses herein specified, and such -1- '> / other similar use as may be deemed beneficial to the people of the State of California. SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution. I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, held on the 4th day of September, 1945, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: Councilmen, Adoook, Leeper, Nugent, Ormsby and Russell NOES: None ABSENT: None ~i,~- City Cler . . Signed and approved this 4.thday of September, 1945. 74. //~ Mayor f' ATTEST: .... ~ ~~~. ....----- City C ~ -2-