Resolution 353
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RESOLUTION NO.~_~J
RESOLUTION REQUIRING OWNERS OR SUBDIVIDERS OF ANY PROPERTY
HEREAFrERANNEXED TO THE CITY OF GILROY TO PAY THE SUM OF
ONE HUNDRED ($100..00) DOLLARS PER LOT WITH WHICH TO ESTABLISH
A DRAINAGE SYSTEM FOR THE SUBDIVISION, AS A CONDITION TO THE
APPROVAL OF THE SUBDIVISION AND THE FILING OF THE MAP THEREOF.
WHEREAS, areas adjacent to the City of Gilroy have
heretofore been annexed to the City of Gilroy and subdivided
without any provision or requirement relating to the drainage
of such areas, and properly draining the same has presented
serious and complicated problems to the City and to the property
owners, and in most instances it has been impossible to establish
a drainage program for the annexed areas without the cooperation
and agreement of other property owners outside of the annexed
territory; and,
WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of Gilroy
deems it essential for the proper growth and well-being of
the City that provisions be made insuring the proper drainage
of any territory hereafter annexed to the City of Gilroy which
is subdivided either before or after its annexation, and as a
matter of pUblic policy, and that the subdivider or owner of the
subdivided premises be required to pay to the City of Gilroy
the sum of $100.00 per lot for each lot in the subdivision
before any map or plat thereof be approved by the Common Council
of the City of Gilroy for filing, which said money shall go into
a fund to be used so far as possible for establishing drainage
systems for the said, and other annexed territory.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
That the Common Council of the City of Gilroy does
hereby declare that as a matter of public pOlicy, no map or
plat of any subdivision of territory hereafter annexed to the
City of Gilroy shall be anproved by the said Common Council of
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the City of Gilroy unless and until the owner of the said
subdivision or subdivider thereof shall have first paid to the
City of Gilroy the sum of $100.00 per lot for each lot in the
subdivisbn, for use by the City of Gilroy in establishing and
maintaining a system for the drainage of subdivided territory,
and other annexed areas, and no officials of the City of
Gilroy shall aprove any such map until the said sum of $100.00
per lot has been thus paid to the City of Gilroy.
PASSED and ADOPTED the first day of August, 1955, by
the following vote:
AYES:
NO ES :
ABSENT :
Councilmen
Councilmen
Councilmen
MAYOR
Attest:
City Clerk
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