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RESOLUTION NO.
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY
ORDERING VACATION OF A PORTION OF FARM STREET AND MYRTLE
STREET AS SHOWN ON TRACT NO. 21227
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 1529 the City Council of the City of
Downey, adopted the 8th day of March, declared its intention to vacate that
portion of Farm Street and Myrtle Street as shown on a map on file in the
office of the City Clerk, and setting a hearing thereon for the hour of 7:30 P.M.
April 12, 1965; and
WHEREAS, the public hearing on said intended vacation duly was held and
a full and fair hearing was had thereon.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY DOES RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Downey finds from all the
evidence submitted at said hearing that that portion of Farm Street and Myrtle
Street as shown in Tract No. 21227, hereinafter described is unnecessary for
present or prospective street purposes, and it is hereby ordered vacated. Said
area so vacated is described as follows:
Parcel No. 1: All that portion of Farm Street, Myrtle Street
and public alleys as shown on Tract No. 21227 and recorded in
Map Book No. 620, Page 41 in the Office of the County Recorder,
County of Los Angeles, State of California.
Parcel No. 2. A strip of land 15.00 feet wide, being the
southeasterly 15.00 feet of the northwesterly 50.5 feet of the
northeasterly 20.40 feet of that certain parcel of land in the
Rancho Santa Gertrudes, as shown on map recorded in Book 1,
,.� Page 156 et sdq.of patents, Records of the County of Los Angeles,
described in deed to Ralph Lucci, recorded in Book 5580, Page 175
of deeds, Records of said County.
Parcel No. 3. A strip of land 2.00 feet wide, being the south-
easterly 2.00 feet of the northwesterly 35.5 feet of that certain
parcel of land in the Rancho Santa Gertrudes, as shown on map
recorded in Book 1, Page 156 et seq. of Patents, records of Los
Angeles County, described in deed to Ralph Lucci, recorded in Book
5580, Page 175 of Deeds, Records of said County. To be known as
Paramount Boulevard.
SECTION 2. Pursuant to the authority of Section 8330 and 8331 of
the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California, the City Council
hereby determines that the public convenience, and necessity require the
reservations of a permanent easement and right at any time, or from time to
time, to construct, maintain, operate, replace, remove, and renew storm
drains, sanitary sewers, and appurtenant structures in, upon, over and across
the street or part thereof, proposed to be vacated, and maintain, operate,
replace, remove, renew and enlarge lines of pipe, conduits, cables, wires,
poles and other convenient structures and fixtures for the operation of gas
pipe lines, telegraph and telephone lines, and for the transportation and
distribution of electrical energy water, and incidental purposes, including
access and the right to keep the property free from flammable materials and
weed growth, and otherwise protect the same from all hazards in, upon, and
over that portion of the street proposed to be vacated and described as
follows:
Parcel No. 1. Beginning at the most southerly corner of Lot 8
of Tract No. 21227, Map Book 620, Pages 40 and 41; thence along
the northwesterly line of Myrtle Street as shown on the map of said
tract, North 31 East 449.52 feet to the northeasterly line
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of said tract; thence along said northeasterly line South
58 ° 40'42" East 30 feet to the centerline of said Myrtle
Street; thence along said centerline South 31 ° 54'51" West
449.29 feet to the southeasterly prolongation of the south-
westerly line of said Lot 8; thence along said prolongation
North 59 ° 06'50" West 30 feet to the point of beginning.
Also reserving to the City of Downey an easement for drainage
purposes described as follows:
Parcel No. 2. Beginning at the most southerly corner of said
Lot 8; thence along the southwesterly line of Tract No. 21227
South 59 ° 06'50" East 30 feet to the true point of beginning;
thence North 31 ° 54'51" East 55.00 feet; thence southerly in a
direct line to a point in the southeasterly prolongation of
said southwesterly line that is South 50 ° 06'50" East 15.00
feet from the true point of beginning; thence North 59 ° 06'50"
West along said prolongation a distance of 15.00 feet to the
true point of beginning.
Also reserving to the City of Downey an easement 10 feet wide
for public utility purposes, the southwesterly line of which is
described as follows:
Parcel No. 3. Beginning at the intersection of the northeasterly
prolongation of the northwesterly line of Lots 5, 6 and 7 of
Tract No. 21227 with the northwesterly prolongation of the north-
easterly line of said Lot 5; thence along said northeasterly line
of Lot 5 and its prolongations South 59 ° 19'21" East 174.88 feet
to an intersection with the northwesterly prolongation of the
northeasterly line of Lot 10 of said tract; thence along said
northeasterly line of Lot 10 and its prolongations South 58 ° 40'42"
East 181.43 feet to the northeasterly prolongation of the south-
easterly line of Lots 8, 9 and 10 of said tract.
The northeasterly line of the above described easement is to be
prolonged or shortened so as to terminate in the northeasterly
prolongation of the northwesterly line of said Lot 5, and in the
northeasterly prolongation of the southeasterly line of said Lot
10.
All proceedings for the vacation of said street are taken and shall
be subject to the reservation of said described easement.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
resolution and cause a certified copy thereof, attested by the City Clerk under
the seal of the City of Downey, to be recorded in the office of the County
Recorder of the County of Los Angeles.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this f` day of , 19 65 .
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the
City Council at a regular meeting held on the /-Z day of t f
1965, by the following vote:
AYES: 45- Councilmen: j(_, i. �aT.,/����
NOES: Councilmen: 1
ABSENT: Councilmen:
City Cler