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HomeMy WebLinkAbout5813 - Coastal Freeway Route® WWC :mec 7/10/63 RESOLUTION NO. 5813 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH REQUESTING THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO RECONSIDER ITS DECISION ADOPTING THE ROUTE OF THE COASTAL FREEWAY FROM HIGHWAY Ik 39 TO A POINT 2.2 MILES SOUTH OF MAC ARTHUR BOULEVARD WHEREAS, the State Highway Commission has adopted the route of the coastal freeway from Highway 39 to a point 2,2 miles south of MacArthur Boulevard in the location generally referred to as the green line; and WHEREAS, the construction of a freeway in this location would not be in the best interests of the State of California, would be destructive of unique properties along the route, and would be contrary to the interests of the majority of the public agencies to be served by the freeway; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that the State Highway Commission be and is hereby urgently requested to reconsider its decision and to reopen the question of the location of this portion of the coastal freeway and to set a hearing to receive and consider additional evidence regarding the route of this portion of the coastal freeway. The reasons the City Council believes the Com- mission should reconsider its decision are as follows: 1. All routes of the coastal freeway heretofore adopted or now under consideration, except where influenced by topographi- cal limitations, are approximately one mile inland from the Pacific Ocean. There appears to be no valid reason to deviate from this general alignment and distance from the shore line from Highway 39 through Newport Beach. For example, all routes under study immedi- ately up coast from Highway 39 are approximately one mile inland. • 2, The recommendation and report of the State Highway Engineer to the Commission was not available for review by the public agencies and interested parties prior to the date the Commission actually adopted this freeway route. This procedure made it impossible for the public.agencies to support the recom- mendation of the State Highway Engineer by supplemental engineer- ing, traffic and cost information. This procedure was a deviation from the procedure normally followed by the Commission and was done to accommodate the local agencies by fixing the route at the earliest possible date. However, this procedural change did deny the opportunity to evaluate the report and recommendation. 3. The Commission adopted the route contrary to the recommendation of the State Highway Engineer and no official written reasons of any State department, division, agency or official have been made available to the public agencies or the public either before or after the decision of the Commission. The result of this was to deny an opportunity to the public agencies and to the public to evaluate or challenge the validity of the rea- sons that must have been the basis of the Commission's decision. 4. The State Highway Engineer has indicated in his statement to the Commission that land costs along the green line in West Newport have increased by three million dollars since the initial estimates were made. The City Council believes that a proportionate increase in land costs has occurred along the green line all the way from West Newport to Newport Bay. 5. Interchanges on the green line in addition to those considered in preparation of the original cost estimates will be required to properly serve traffic needs. Costs of these inter- changes were not included in the cost information upon which the Commission based its decision. These additional costs added to the more realistic estimate of land costs make the green line economically unfeasible when compared with the same costs on the inland route recommended by the State Highway Engineer. • ADOPTED this 8th day of July, 1963. &Lei _ t 4 ""t ATTEST: � ' mayor City Clerk 2. • STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH) 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 No. 5813 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 8th day of July , 19 63 by the following, vote, to wit: AYES, COUNCILMEN: Stoddard, Gruber, Cook, Hart, Lorenz, Marshall, Elder NOES, COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None Dated this ltith day of July „ 19 -- City Clerk and x- Of'cio Clerk of the City Council, City of Newport Beach, State of California.