HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 1329A-1948 RESOLUTION NO. 1329 A
PILLARi'POINT BREAKWATER AT HALF
MOON BAY, CAL.
~5~2~EAS, on January 20th, 19&8, the Board of Review for Rivers and Harbors of the U. S. Army
Engineers in Washington, D. C. recommended the construction of $4,500,000 breakwater at Pillar Point, Half MoOn
Bay, California about twenty miles south of San Francisco, and
WHERE~S, Governor Earl Warren on March 9th, after reviewing the recommendations of the Army
Engineers and the commentS Ofthe agencies of the State of California concerned with the breakwater project,
strongly recommended that Congress authorize and appropriate funds for this Half Moon Bay Breakwater at an early
date, and
WHEREAS, The Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County by formal resolutions, a~opted on May 5th,
1927, a4d again on December 16th, 1947, has pledged its complete support to the Pillar Point ~reakwater project
to the extent of a $100,000 cash contribution, and the equivalent of $400,000 for royalty-free rock, providing
easemenSs, rights-of-way and public wharf facilities and
WHEREAS, The Half Moon Bay project has the official endorsement and support of the Board of Super-
visors Sf San Mateo County, the State Chamber of Commerce, the state organizations of labor and the chambers of
commerce of San Francisco and Santa Cruz and of the major communities of San~Mateo County, and
WHEREAS, Among other things, this breakwater will:
1.-Provide the only safe harbor and place of refuge for small craft between San Francisco and
Monterey;
2.-Make available added facilities for commercial and sports fishermen;
3.-Bring business and industry to the Half Moon Bay area;.
4.-Provide additional safe swimming beaches and recreation facilities for people of California;
5.-Help prevent serious erosion of sections of the shoreline of San MateoOounty, and
~EREAS, The breakwater project for Half Moon Bay will soon come before Congress, where it first will
be referred to the ~ublic Works Committee of the House, and
WHEREAS, This Breakwater will involve the expenditure of more.than $2,000,000 of Federal Funds for ti
improvement of the California Coast, now therefore be it
RESOLVED, That this organization endorse and pledge its active support to the Pillar Point Breadwate
proJect~ and be it further
RESOLVED, That we call upon Congress to authorize this project and to vote funds for the constructio
at the Sarliest possible date and be it fimmlly
RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution and an appropriate letter be sent to Senators William
Knowlan~ and Sheridan Downey, the Congressman from this area, and that the press and the Pillar Point Breakwater
Committee, Half Moon Bay, be notified of this action.
Adopted at a meeting of the City ~of South San Francisco, held.at South San Francisco, on April 5th,
1928 by lDaniel J. Hyland, City Clerk. .
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was regularly introduced and adopted by the City
Council of the City of South San Francisco, this 5th day of April, 1928, by the following vote:
Ayes, Councilmen Chas. ~. Elder, Leo Ferko, Adolph Sani, Emilio Cortesi.
Noes, Councilmen None
Absent, Councilman G. W. Holston.
Attest:
(SmL)
DANIEL J. HYL~ID
City Clerk