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RESOLUTION NO. 3676
1 [AREAS, it has been brought to the attention of the City
2 Council of the City of Newport Beach, that the Pacific Electric
3 Railway Company has petitioned the Public Utilities Commission of
4 the State of California for the abandonment of its rail passenger
5 line service presently operating in and out of the City of Newport
6 Beach; and
7 4IHERE,AS the resent rail
p passenger service so furnished
8 by Pacific Electric Railway Company is entirely inadequate to meet
9 the public convenience; and
10 - HEREAS, Pacific Electric Railway Company proposes to
11 substitute motor coach passenger service in lieu of passenger rail
12 service, which motor coach passenger service will even less adequate
13 ly meet the public needs than the present rail passenger service;
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15 WHEREAS, the railway tracks, over which said passenger and
16 freight service presently travels, run along and divide one of the
17 principal streets of the City of Newport Beach and thereby creates
18 a congestion of public traffic;
19 NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
20 City of Newport Beach that it is the sense of said City Council that
21 the application of the Pacific Electric Raili;ray Company to abandon
22 its resent
p passenger rail service be denied; and
23 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all appropriate steps be taken
24 to compel Pacific Electric Railway Company to institute and
provide
25 for more frequent and more adequate rail passenger service to and
26 from the City of Newport Beach; and
27 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if Pacific Electric Railway
18 Company is permitted to withdraw its
p Y P present rail passenger service
29 to and from the City of Newport Beach that, in that event, said
30 Pacific Electric Railway Company be required to cease the operation
31 of freight rail service through said streets of the City of Newport
32 Beach and to do all things necessary to make available to the public
the full use of said streets.
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The above and foregoing resolution was duly and regularly
passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach,
at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 28th day of
March, 1949, by the following vote, to wit;
AYES, COUNCILMEN^ Greeley, Robertson, Blue,
Isbell and Drake _
NOES, COUNCILMEN None
ABSENT COUNCILMEN None
ATTEST:
Ls/ C. K. Priest
City Clerk
/s/ Dick Drake
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH )
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I, MARGERY SCHROUDER, City Clerk of the City of Newport
Beach, California, do hereby certify that according to the records
of the City of Newport Beach filed and maintained in my office,
the foregoing Resolution Noy 3676 was duly and
regularly adopted, passed, and approved by the City Council of
the City of Newport Beach, California, at a regular meeting of
said City Council held at the regular meeting place thereof, on
the 28th day of March ) 1949, by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES, COUNCILMEN:
Greeley, Robertson, Blue, Isbell & Drake
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
ABbENTI COUNCILMEN:
Dated this
1st
None
day of December , 1958.
City Clerk a d Ea Officio Clerk of the
City Council, City of Newport Beach,
State of California.