HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 5433-1970RESOLUTIDN NO. ~33
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION F DRWARDING PROPOSALS
TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
REGARDING RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY
LANDSCAPING.
BE IT RESOLVED by the 2ity Council of the City of South
San Francisco that the following suggestions regarding railroad
right-of-way landscaping, composed and recommended by the City
Planner and Landscape Specialist, are hereby approved and
respectfully submitted to the Public Utilities Commission of
the State of California in response to their request therefor:
"The City of South San Francisco respectfully pro-
poses that the Public Utilities Commission require
the railroads under its jurisdiction to landscape
their rights-of-way in a manner which is consonant
with the landscaping standards and practices in the
several cities traversed by said rights-of-way.
"The City of South San Francisco also proposes that
the Commission's landscaping requirements be made
flexible, and based upon local planning and zoning
guidelines. Flexible requirements could be readily
tailored to individual cities, and would tend to
bring the landscaping of railroad rights-of-way into
conformity with the prevailing patterns of landscap-
ing of the areas they traverse.
"The City of South San Francisco feels that the
landscaping standards applied to rights-of-way should
be no more stringent, and no less stringent than
those applied to adjacer, t land uses. The City also
feels that the obligaticn to landscape for the
overall benefit of the city, community, or neighbor-
hood should not be waived for railroads. The obliga-
tion to landscape should not be interpreted as con-
demnation for park purposes. In the City of South
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"San Francisco, all uses, including churches, schools,
and factories come within the purview of its land-
scaping requirements."
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was
regularly introduced and adopted by the City Council of the
regnl ar me e t in g
October , 1970 ,
City of South San Francisco at a
held on the 19th day of
by the following vote:
AYES, COUNCILMEN
NOES, "
ABSENT, "
Patrick E. Ahem, Frank J. Bertucelli, William A.
Borba and Warren Steinkamp
None
F. Frank Mammini
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