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RESOLUTION NO. 1426.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA
RZ~U'::'&'l'IiIG THE BOARD OF SUPlliVISORS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY TO CONSTRUCT
A BRIDGE ACROSS THE SANTA ANITA WASH ON COLORADO BOULEVARD ',H'l'HIN THE
CITY OF ARCADIA.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES RESOLVE AS
FOLLO',,'S:
SECTION 1. WHEREAS, Colorado Boulevard is a major highway
extending from San Fernando Boulevard in Glendale to Huntington Drive
in llonrovia, a distance of approximately fifteen (15) miles, and
WHEREAS, said Colorado Boulevard is a main highway passing
throU3h the business districts of the Cities of Pasadena and
Monrovia, and
WHEREhS, said Boulevard crosses the Santa Anita Wash in the
City of Arcadia, which said wash, during the rainy months of each
year, as well as during such period of time as the dam above Foothill
Boulevard is being sluiced, carries a large amount of sand, rock and
debris which is deposited on said Colorado Boulevard, thereby making
it impassable and causing local as well as through traffic to be
detoured a considerable distance, and
WHEREAS, there is located within the City Limits of the City
of Arcadia in the area north of Colorado Boulevard, east of said wash
and south of Foothill Boulevard, approximately three hundred (300)
homes with a population of one thousand (1,000) people, more or less,
who are greatly inconvenienced by said Boulevard becoming impassable
in that all automobile traffic from said area must be detoured and
the only means of crossing said wash during the rainy season and when
said wash is being sluiced, is by 'means of a foot bridge, and
WHEREAS, in addition to the inconvenience caused to the
residents of the City of Arcadia, it has been necessary for the City
of Arcadia to expend each year a considerable sum of money for the
cost of hiring carry-alls, bulldozers and motor patrol blades, together
with labor, in removing said silt and debris deposited on said
highway, a portion of which is so deposited as a direct result of
sluicing of said debris from the Santa Anita Dam by the Los Angeles
County Flood Control,
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NOW, THER~FORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Supervisors
of Los Angeles County be and they are hereby requested to cause a
suitable bridge to be constructed over said Santa Anita Wash on
Colorado Boulevard at the earliest date convenient to the Coanty of
Los Angeles, in order that the condition described herein may be
permanently corrected.
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 16th day of October, 1945, by the affirmative vote of at least
three Councilmen, to \nt:
AYES: Councilmen, Adcock, Leeper, Nugent Ormsby and Russell
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Signed and approved this 16th day of
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October, 1945.
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