HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 164ORDINANCE N0./~ NEW SERIES.
AN ORDINANCE GRANTING· TO THE ATCHISON,
TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY, A-
CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND
ASSIGNS, FOR THE TERM 0R PERIOD OF
T~~VE (25) YEARS FROM THE'
DAY OF APRIL, 1923, T~E
FRANCHISE, RIGHT, PERMISSION AND
PRIVILEGE TO LAY, MAINTAIN AND OPER-
ATE A SECOND MAIN TRACK OF STANDARD
GUAGE RAILROAD TOGETHER WITH THE
NECESSARY. CUR.~ES~ SIDE TRACKS, SPURS,
SWITCHES, CROSSOVERS AND·APPURTENANCES
FOR THE CONVENIENT USE THEREOF, ALONG,
UPON AND ACROSS CERTAIN STREETS, POR-
TIONS. OF STREETS, AND OTHER PLACES IN
THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, COUNTY OF
KERN, STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY ON BAKERSFIELD,
as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Council of the City of Bakersfield, hereby grants,
to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, a Corpora-
tion, organized and incorporated under the laws of the State
of Kansas, its successors and assigns, for the term or periodS.
of twenty-five (28) years from the ~3~ day of
April, 192~, subject to all the terms, conditions and limita-
tions hereinafter made and expressed, the franchise, right and
privilege to lay, maintain and operate a second main track'of
.standard gauge railroad, together with necessary curves, side
.. tracks, spurs, switches, crossovers and appurtenances for the
...... cp.n..venient use thereof, .along, ·upon and-across certain streets.,
portions of streets and other places in said City of Bakers-
field, County of Kern, State of California, more'particularly
described as follows:
(1) A second main track beginning for its center
line at a point fourteen (14) feet north of the center line of
15th Street and sixty-six (66)""feet west of the west line of ...
"G" Street, and running thence easterly fou~teen'('i-4:~. feet
north from 'and parallel with the center line of 15th Street
on a tangent to a point ninety-one ~d one-tenth feet (91.1)
more or less, easterly from the easterly line of "P" Street;
thence easterly on a curve, concave to the north, having a
radius of two thousand eight hundred sixty-four and nine tenths
feet (2,864.9) to a point in the northerly line of 18th
Street one hundred thirty-eight (138) feet, more or ·less, east
measured along said northerly line of lSth Street f~em the
east line of "Q"' Street.
(2) A second main track beginning for its center
line at a point in the center line of 15th Street, ninety-one
and one-tenth (91..1) feet, more or less, east of the east line
of n.p.,, Street, running thence easterly on a curve, concave
northerly, having a radius of .two thousand eight hundred seventy-
eight and nine-tenths feeC (~,8V8.9), a distance of four hundred
forty-nine and eight-tenths feet (449.8), more or less, to a
poiht; thence easterly,. tangent to said curve, across "R" Street
to a point on the east line of "R" Street (1~.~5) fifteen and
twenty-five hundredths .feet, north of the north line of 15th
Street; continuing thence easterly fourteen (14) feet southerly
from and parallel with the center line of the present main
track, across private property, crossing "S" Street, Union Ave-
nue, SonOra Street,' the alley in Block 2S2,' Dolores Street,
Inyo Street, Tulare Street, Truxtun Avenue, Eureka Street, Kern
SECTION 3.
.Street, Baker Street, Fremont Street, King.Street, the alley
· in Block 1~8, Beale Avenue,.East 19th Street (formerly Grove
· Street), Owens Street, the alley in Block 108, Gage Street,
Humboldt Street, Robinson Street, the alley i'n Block
and Sumner Street.
(3) The extension westerly across Owens Street of
two side tracks, the center lines of which are thrity-one (31)
feet and forty-four (44)'feet,. respectively, northerly from
and parallel to the center line of the present main track.
The rights, privileges and permission herein granted
to said Corporation are dependent for their continuance and
vali;dity upon the performance by said Corporation of all the
conditions herOinafter set' forth, to-wit=
(1) Said Corporation shall construct suitable
culverts for the passage' of water at such points as may be
necessary .~on the road'bed of said railroad and shall maint&in
the same in p~oper repair.
'~ ..... (2) Said Corporation shall keep all of its road bed
and tracks, in said Oity in good condition and repair, with
proper slopes to enable vehicles to pass and rapass thereon
and thereover at all places where crossings shall be maintained
and whenever the streets, which cross any 'of the tracks owned
by said Octpotation, are paved or repaved said Corporation shall
· likewise immediately pave or Pepave said crossings and two feet
on the outside of the outermost rails and thereafter keep and
maint.ain such crossing and two feet on the outside of the outer-
most rails in good condition and repair.
If said Corporation shall fail within /~
from the date of the taking effect of this '= :~'~".'
to commence in good f~ith and duly'prosecute the construction
of the work under the franchise, privilege and permiss~e~,~ep.e,~
in granted, or to fully complete such work within ~
monthS_ from. and after the ~y this ordin~ce ~ecomes effective,
then,' this Ordin~ce shall be of no further force or effect as
a g~ant unto said Corporation, its successors or assi~s.
I. HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was
regularly introduced, passed and adopted by the Couoncil of '~he
City of Bakersfield, .on the ~~day of ~ , 1923, .
by the following vote:
Ayes-Au tin, Baer, Carlisle, Ca.flock, Cfiffith, Habeffelde, Stoner
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APPROVED this ~~ day
f Clerk
of the Council of the City of
Bakersfield, California.