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RESOLUTION NO. 2712
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
REQUESTING THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL ABANDONED
RAILWAY RIGHT OF WAY.
WHEREAS, the County of Los Angeles has acquired and de-
veloped for park purposes approximately 185 acres in the heart of
the City of Arcadia, bounded roughly by Santa Anita Avenue, Hunt-
ington Drive, Huntington Place and the abandoned Pacific Electric
RailWay right of way; and,
WHEREAS, the County of Los Angeles has maintained the
said site as a county park in a manner which is a tribute to the
community of Arcadia and the County of Los Angeles alike; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Arcadia has acquired the greater
portion of the property adjacent to the said county park between
Huntington Drive and the aforesaid abandoned Pacific Electric Rail-
way right of way, and has caused or permitted to be planned and
constructed thereon, among other things# the Arcadia City Hall and
Civic Center site, the California National Guard Armory and the
Southern Methodist Hospital; and,
WHEREAS, the County has heretofore acquired for road pur-
poses that portion of the abandoned Pacific Electric Railway right
of way aQjacent to the aforesaid property of the City of Arcadia,
extending front Huntington Drive on the north to Huntington Drive
on the south at its conjunction with Huntington Place and Holly
Avenue; and,
WHEREAS, adjacent to and easterly of the aforesaid aban-
doned Pa~ific Electric Railway right of way heretofore acquired for
road purposes by the County of Los Angeles as aforesaid, there
exists a strip of land forty feet in width extending from Hunting-
ton Drive on the north to Huntington Place on the south, which said
strip of land was formerly the right of way of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, successor in interest to the title of the San
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Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway, which said 40-foot strip of
land is now in private ownership; and,
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles County Flood Control District
is presently acquiring by eminent domain a portion of said 40-foot
strip of abandoned Southern Pacific Railroad Company right of way,
extending from the California National Guard Armory on the north to
Huntington Place on the southi and,
WHEREAS, the 40-foot strip of abandoned Southern Pacific
Railway right of way from the National Gaurd. Armory in the south to
the northerly line of the Arcadia Civic Center on the north is in-
capable of proper development under private ownership, and if it be
allowed to remain in private ownership will doubtless be developed
in such a manner as to be det~1mental to both the Los Angeles
County Park and the Arcadia Civic Center; and,
WHEREAS, said portion of the 40-foot strip of abandoned
Southern Pacific Railroad Company right of way is immediately adja-
cent and contiguous to the aforesaid Los Angeles County Park, but
is separated from the Arcadia Civic Center property by the abandoned
Pacific Electric Railway right of way, heretofore acquired by the
County of Los Angeles for street purposes and proposed to be im-
proved as a public street by the City of Arcadia;
NOW, THEREFORE; THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA;
CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the City Council of the City of Arcadia
does hereby respectfully request that the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Los Angeles acquire for park purposes that portion of
the abandoned Southern Pacific Railroad Company right of way adja-
cent and contiguous to the aforesaid Loe Angeles County Park, from
the California National Gu~rd Armory site to the north end of the
Arcadia Civic Center site, so that the property may be properly
used by the public and properly integrated with the public uses for
park purposes, street and highway purposes and Civic Center pur-
poses as presently planned for all properties adjacent to said
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40-foot strip of abandoned Southern Pacific Railroad right of way.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this Resolution and shall cause a copy of the same to be forwarded
to the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles CountYI together
with a map delineating each of the various parcels of land herein-
above described or referred to.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadial
held on the 15th
day of November
. 1955. by the affirmative
vote of at least three Councilmen. to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Camphouse. Dow. Hulse and Phillips
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilman Dennis
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Ci ty of Arcadia
SIGNED AND APPROVED this 15th day of November I 1955.
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