BOOK 18_1939-01-03 to 1942-08-10

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gut il and five (5) feet wide; said sidewalks shall also be constructed upon all gorners of intersecting and terminating streets and avenues within the limits hereinbefore described. There is hereby excepted from the hereinbefore described work and .improvements any parts thereof that is already done to the line and grade as shown on the plans, profiles and specifications mentioned herein. The Clerk of the City of Redwood City is hereby ordered and directed to post a notice of said work and improvements, together with plans, profiles, detailed drawings and specifications therefor, conspicuously for five days on or near the Council Cha"iber door of the Council of the City of Redwood City inviting sealed proposals or bids for doing the ' work and making the improvements ordered he Said.City Clerk is also ordered and directed to publish a notice inviting such sealed pro- posals or bids, and referring to the plans, profiles, detailed drawings and specifications posted or on file for the.period required by law in the Redwood City Tribune, a daily (except Sunday) newspaper of general circulation published, printed and circulated in the City of Redwood City, and hereby designated for that purpose by the Council of said City. It is further ordered that said sealed proposals or bids be publicly opened, examined and declared by the Council of said City of Redwood City at the hour of 8:00 o'clock P.M. of Monday, the•2nd day of June; 1941, and all bids must be filed with the Clerk of the Council of the City of Redwood City on or before such date and hour." Councilman Fletcher, seconded by Councilman Christensen, offered for intro - :duction an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 442, "An Ordinance Regu- lating the.Size of Lots Upon Which Residences Can Be Built~in the First Residential District of the City of Redwood City, to Permit the Council to Divide Lotswthat Have 5,000 or More Square Feet and have a Frontage that is Suitable For the Construction of the Residences Thereon." It was decided to continue to the next meeting the matter of placing the "Climate Best by Government Test'l signs when the exact location for erection of the signs would be determined and an estimate of erection costs submitted. 0 Applications of George H. Elmore and Mrs. J. C. Lukens for special permit to continue the squab and breeder hatcheries business at 367 Encina 1536 Oxford Street, respectively, were granted on motion of Council- man Fletcher, seconded by Councilman Christensen. In connection with protests received relative to certain houses being con- structed in the 900 block on Hudson Street which assertedly were less than the amount indicated by the building permit, Building Inspector Duncan submitted correspondence with the contractors who constructed these buildings, indicating the cost of construction was $3,000 per house or $2,900 per -house if three were built at one time. Another letter from Charles Holt stated that these houses were built under F. H,.'A. approval and inspection, had a F. H. A. commitment through the First National Bank of San Mateo County of $3,400 per house, which a u j