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RESOLUTION NO. 3596
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO NIGHTTIME
HORSE RACING.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES
DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That for more than ,a quarter of a century
thoroughbred horse racing has been conducted during the daytime at
Santa Anita Race Track within the City of Arcadia and for some years
harness horse racing has been conducted during the daytime at said
Santa Anita Race Track.
SECTION 2. That the Santa Anita Race Track is surrounded
by the Arcadia City Hall and Police Station, the National Guard Armory,
the Methodist Hospital, a few motels and restaurants, and a very high
class residential area. That for the most part said improvements were
constructed after the commencement of daytime thoroughbred horse
racing at Santa Anita Race Track, and living habits of the residents
of the area, the design of city streets and local traffic patterns
have all been adapted to seasons of daytime racing. That despite the
fact that the static population of this City is doubled in a matter
of hours on racing days, the City administration, law enforcement and
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the people of the community, with the excellent cooperation of the
officials of the Los Angeles Turf Club, have reduced to the barest
minimum the traffic and social problems resulting from a sudden influx
of people and 'automobiles into this community on the days of thorough-
bred horse racing &ld harness horse racing.
SECTION 3, That the conduct of night racing in any form
whatsoever will disrupt the peace and quiet of the residential neighbor-
hood which nearly surrounds Santa Anita Race Track, and will cause
traffic congestion and problems impossible of solution. That the street
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system and traffic control devices, though reasonably adequate to
handle daytime crowds, will be hopelessly inadequate to cope with the
problems resulting from the influx of people and automobiles attending
nighttime racing. 'rhat hundreds of traffic enforcement personnel are
assigned both by this City and neighboring communities to assist the
orderly flow of the unusually heavy traffic on racing days. That such
added manpower together with mechanical traffic control devices handle
the traffic volume with reasonabl~ adequacy. That additional manpower
is inadequate to handle similar traffic volumes at nighttime, as manual
direction of nighttime traffic in many instances serves only to con-
fuse rather than to assist the traveling public, and it is physically
impractical and financially unfeasible to substitute mechanical traffic
regulation for heavy volumes of nighttime traffic on a seasonal basis.
SECTION 4. That for the foregoing reasons the City Council
of the City of Arcadia, on behalf of the city administration and the
residents and property owners by it represented, does hereby express
its absolute and unwavering opposition to the permitting of any type
of racing after dark, and particularly to the permitting of ni&httime
horse racing or harness horse raCing anywhere in the State of Cali-
fornia, realizing that if nighttime horse racing be permitted else-
where, it must inevitably and eventually be permitted in the City of
Arcadia with the disastrous and detrimental effects hereinbefore out-
lined. That this City Council does therefore urge the legislature of
the State of California to promptly disapprove any measure the effect
of which will be to permit horse racing or harness horse raCing after
dark anywhere in the State of California.
SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this resolution and shall cause a certified copy hereof forthwith to
be forwarded to the Honorable State Senator Thomas Rees, Senator from
the 38th District, and to the Honorable Houston I. Flournoy, Assembly-
man from the 49th Assembly District.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted
at an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia
held on the 20th day of May, 1963, by the affirmative vote of at least
three Councilmen, to'wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN, BALSER, BUTTERWORTH, REIBOLD, TumER, PHmLLIPS
NOES: BONE
ABSENT: NONS
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SIGNED AND APPROVED this 20th day of May, 1963.
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