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RESOLUTION NO. .r ,
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY
FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE PUBLIC INTEREST, CON-
VENIENCE AND NECESSITY REQUIRE THE ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN
REAL PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS, TO WIT;
A FIRE STATION, APPURTENANCES THERETO, AND OTHER PUBLIC
PURPOSES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Downey does hereby find,
determine and declare that the public interest, convenience and necessity
require the acquisition by the City of Downey of certain hereinafter described
real property for public grounds and buildings, to wit: a. fire station, appurte-
nances thereto, and other public purposes.
That the location of the said fire station and appurtenances thereto, has
been planned and located in a manner which will be most compatible with the
greatest public good and the least private injury.
SECTION 2. That the City Council of the City of Downey does hereby find,
determine and declare that in order to acquire and use the hereinafter described
real property for the purposes set forth in Section 1 hereof, the public interest,
convenience and necessity require the acquisition of the fee title to the here-
inafter described real property by the City of Downey; and the said City Council
does hereby declare that it is the intention of the City of Downey to acquire,
in its name, the fee title to the hereinafter described real property by con-
demnation in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure and
of the Constitution of the State of California., authorizing the exercise of the
right of eminent domain.
SECTION 3. That the said real property, the acquisition of the fee title
to which is required by said public interest, convenience and necessity, for the
purposes set forth in Section 1 and 2 hereof, is located in the City of Downey,
County of Los Angeles, State of California, and is more particularly described
as follows:
That portion of the Rancho Santa Gertrudes, being a part of the land
described in the deed to G.P.Greenamyer and Bette M. Greenamyer recorded
as Instrument No. 2411 on August 1, 1947, in the office of the Recorder of
the County of Los Angeles, described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the Northeasterly line of Tract No. 13240
as per map recorded in Book 266 Pages 23 and 24 of Maps, records of said
county, that is Southeasterly thereon 681.49 feet from the most northerly
corner of said tract, said point of beginning being the most Southerly
corner of the land described in the deed to Albert E. and Katherine Tetremont
recorded as Instrument No.1838 on September 10,1947; thence Northeasterly
along the Southeasterly line of said land 155.10 feet, more or less, to the
Southwesterly line of the land described in Parcel 1 of the deed to the
County of Los Angeles recorded as Instrument No. 655 on March 2, 1948 in
Book 26579, Page 261 of Officials Records of said county ; thence Southeast-
erly thereon 162.40 feet to the Northwesterly line of the 80 foot strip of
land, now Downey Avenue, lying 40 feet on each side of the center line des-
cribed in the deed to the County of Los Angeles, recorded May 12, 1949, in
Book 30073, Page 190 of said Official Records; thence Southwesterly along
said Northwesterly line of Downey Avenue 156 feet, more or less, to the
Southeasterly prolongation of the Northeasterly line of said Tract No. 13240;
thence Northwesterly along said prolongation, and along said Northeasterly
line to the point of beginning.
SECTION 4. That the City Attorney of the City of Downey and the firm
of Bmrke, Williams and Sorensen, are hereby authorized, empowered and directed
to prepare, institute and prosecute, in the name of the City of Downey, such
proceedings in the proper court having jurisdiction thereof as are necessary for
the acquisition of the fee title to the said property described in Section 3
hereof.
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SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
resolution.
ADDOPTED AND APPROVED this i day of I ,1961
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Mayor
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City Clerk
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted at a, regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Downey held on the /./47/ day of
August ,1961, by the following vote:
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