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. ......".:co, -' vVHEHEAS the California Highway Commission ha.s heretofore assured representatives of Redwood City and other communities in San Mateo County that $661,880 would be appropriated for the biennium of 1939-1941 for the purchase of property necessary to widen El Camino Real between Broadway in Redwood City and the southerly boundary line of San Ma teo COUll ty; ,and WHEREAS this widening project and the re-Paving of said highway is one of the most vitally necessary undertakings in this State; and WHEREAS the City of Redwood City, and other communities in South San Mateo County for a long period, which exceeds fifteen years, have prevented property owners on El Camino Real from making full use of their property by ordinances establishing set-back lines in order to minimze the cost of the ultimate widen- ing of said El Camino Real, and the continuance of such set-back lines amounts and has amounted for many years to a deprivation of property without present compensation therefor and has also tended for many years to discourage and even prevent the improvement of property fronting on said El Camino Real by reason of the in- accessibility of business property constructed in conformity with said set-back lines; and WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Redwood City has been recently advised that the State Highway Commission has curtailed said appropriation to the extent of $150,000 or there- abouts and said City Council is advised and believes that any substantial curtailment in said appropriation will render it im- possible to complete within said biennium the acquisition of property necessary for said widening project and therefore still further and longer burden the property owners whose property faces on said El Camino Real, and will also prolong the maintenance of the "bottleneck" now and for many years existing on this heavily travelled thoroughfare between Redwood City and Palo Alto; and WHEREAS any postponment beyond the present biennit~ of the acquisition of property necessary for said widening project would be a grave injustice to the people of the State of California who have occasion to use said portion of El Camino Real, to the property owners along said highway, and would be detrimental to the safety of motorists and others who use said highway, NOW THEREIt'ORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Ci ty Council of said City of Redwood City that the attention of the State Highway Commission be directed to the absolute necessity of appropriating sufficient funds in the present biennium to acquire all property needed for said widening project so that the full width of right of way for such project may be owned by the State of California, and all improvements now impinging thereon be removed during said biennium to the end that during the prasan t biennium, or not later than the next succeeding biennium paving of said widened highway may be completed. FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent to t.nA (;Ql;f'f"IT'n-l 0 ~+-~+-.a 'Q"~ ".'\.-........~~ ('I___~ __~ ~.