Resolution 345
~ESOLl~ION NO.~45
RSSOI.,UTIOK DECL...RIlJG THE POLICY OF THE COlvTMOl; COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GILROY RELLl.TIT:-G TO REQUIRELlI~rT,S IN SUBDIVISIONS LIGJ-iTIEG.
WHEREAS, the Common Council of the Citv of Gilrov has heretofore
adopted RESOLUTIOl; Jm.. 239 and RE:30I.cUTION NO.240 providing that as a
matter of policy the City of Gilroy should not accept any maps or
plats of subdivisions for filing until and unless sewer and water
mains have been laid and installed, and the streets and alleys therein
gravelled and oiled, Md sidevialks 2..nd curbs and gutters constru cted
and installed, to the sati sfaction of the said Cornman Council, or in
lieu ihereof that the subdivider or owner of the subdivided property
provide a good and sufficient suretJr bond eorititioned uron the fai th-
ful performance of the said work and facilities; and"
WHSHEAS" the said r{eso~utions constituted a declaration of the
policy of the C01IJilOn Council on the matters therein set forth but
said Resolutions did not contain any dec18I'ation of the Council re-
lating to lighting in any Subdivision;and,
WHEREAS, this Conmon Council believes that the proper lighting
of the residential section of the City of GilI'oy is important, and
that the streets in any residential section, and particularly in any
neVJ subdivision therein, should be lighted and the lighting in the new
subdivision should be provicied for and installed by the subdivider
prior to and as a condition to the approval ar acceptance of any map
or plat of the subdivision by the Council in additionnto all the other
reouirements as eXDressed in the former deularations of policy by the
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j::ouncil.
:.; C"l.V , ?T_~ SRE }i'C: R3 , BE I TrtE ~)c.-~l L iIZf) :
Tn2t the Corn.frrihn Council 0T the Cit~T I) f Gilroy does require as
a ,G~.:;;.tterof policy that as a con(jit~Lon to the acceptance and/or
arprov5.1 of an./ map at plat of any subdivision that proper lighting
faciljtie s be provided and in stalled by t:he subdivider or owner of
the tract at intersect ions of street s in the subdi vi sion, and where
a block is 6DO. 00 or [nore feet long that lighting be furnished and
installed in the center of the block)$lO that all lights be on steel
poles.
ADOPTED and ?A3SED the 21st day of r':arch ,1955, by the following
vote:
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IT()ES:
Councilmen ?ate,G allo,Kennedy,Rush,Petersen,Sanchez
Councilmen 1-:one
Councilmen None.
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