Resolution 163
RES - 0 L U.:;r< I Q N !i.2. . 163
BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of
Gilroy, at regular session assembled, that
WHEREAS, the Southern Pacirlc Company raised its main line
tracks within the said City of Gilroy, under and pursuant to the
permission of the Common Council of said City~ and
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WHEREAS, the said Southern Pacific Company, by and through
its duly authorized agents agreed with the Common Council of the
City of Gilroy, by and through its duly authorized agents, to
maintain the crossings within their right of way in said City at
such crossings where said main tracks were raised and to improve
the approaches to said main line tracks to the end that street
crossings over said main line tracks would have a uniform and
gradual ~~~de over said main line tracks, and
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WHh~EAS, said Southern Pacific Company have permited and
allowed its drill or spur tracks running parallel to said main
line tracks to be and remain below the grade of said main line
tracks, thereby causing vehicles to encounter an abrupt or sudden
change of grade between said main line tracks and said spur or
drill tracks.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE'IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the
City of Gilroy, that the said Southern Pacific Company so improve
and maintain its right of way in said City of Gilroy at street
crossings so that the approaches over its tracks are gradual, and
that the thoroughfare between the ~~in line tracks and the spur
or drill tracks be gradual and not abrupt as they now exist.
ADOPTED AND PASSED this 20th day of
January
,1947 ~
by the following votes:
AYES:
NOES:
Councilmen: George A.Martin,George M.Mason,Nat He iner,
J.H.Wentworth,Ray L.Stevens,James B.Thomas.
Councilmen: None
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City Clerk
COl.IDcilmen: None
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