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RES C L UTI 0 N NO. 2118 REQ1~STING AND RECO~TI1ENDING THAT SPRUCE STREET, OR A REASONABLE PARALLEL ALTERNATIVE ROUTE, BE ESTABLISHED AS A STATE HIGHWAY TO CONNECT BAYSHORE FREEWAY AND THE INTERSECTION OF WOODSIDE ROAD AND EL C.A...MINO REAL IN Tl'::E CITY OF' REDlrJOOD CITY WHEREAS, El Camino Real (state Highway Route 2) has become overly congested and cannot adequately handle through traffic within the limits of the City of Redwood City; and, vniEREAS, said through traffic should be diverted to the proposed Bayshore Freeway upon completion thereof; and, WHEREAS, Main Street (state Highway Route 107) will , not under present plans connect wi th Bayshore Freeway', and further, cannot economically be widened and/or improved suffi- cient to handle the abovementioned through traffic; and, WHEREAS, the propos ed Bayshore Freewa'Y' Interchange in Redwood City connecting Bayshore Freeway, Harbor Boulevard and Broadway' will terminate at Broadway in a location approximately in line with the easterly extension of Spruce Street; and, "WHEREAS, the Planning Cow~ission and City Council of the City of Redwood City have established and adopted plan lines eighty (80') feet in width along the present alignment of Spruce Street between El Camino Real and Hilton street, and through undeveloped property, to the proposed connection to the Bayshore F1reeway Interchange at Broa.dway; and, WHEREAS, the easterly extension of Spruce street as a state Highway, or the easterly extension of a parallel alternate state Highway route, is essential to provide direct and efficient connection between the intersection of Woodside Road (State Highway Route 107) and El Camino Real, (state Highway Route 2) and the abovementioned Interchange on the Bayshore Freeway at Broadwa:y"; and, ~fHEREAS, the abovementioned extension of Spruce street would provide the only direct ronnection between the intersection of state Highway Routes 107 and 2 and the Ba:/"shore Freeway south