HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES NO 26-80RESOLUTION NO. 26-80
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD ESTABLISHING TRANSPORTATION
PRIORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 1981-82 FOR SUBMISSION
TO THE CALIFORNIA TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION.
WHEREAS, the Alquist/Ingalls Act (AB 402) requires that
each Regional Transportation Planning Agency annually prepare and
submit to the California Transportation Commission a proposed five-
year Regional Transportation Improvement Program; and
WHEREAS, Kern Council of Governments (Kern-COG) is the
Regional Transportation Planning Agency to which the City of
Bakersfield is a member; and
WHEREAS, the Regional Transportation Improvement Program is
designed to be a comprehensive coordinated document of transportation
project improvements; and
WHEREAS, the information contained in the Regional Trans-
portation Improvement Program will be utilized as a local input into
the State Transportation Improvement Program; and
WHEREAS, the interchange at Stockdale Highway and Route
99 Freeway provided off-ramps and on-ramps and such ramps were
removed during the course of the Route 58 Freeway construction; and
WHEREAS, such removal has resulted in a highly
undesirable traffic circulation system for the community and
absence of such interchange is contrary to the Bakersfield Metropolitan
Area General Plan, which includes a freeway interchange at such
location; and
WHEREAS, this Council desires to maintain and improve
traffic circulation and service and provide convenient access to
Brundage Lane and Stockdale Highway by the replacement of on-ramps
and off-ramps from such streets to Route 99 Freeway and desires to
conform to said General Plan by the construction of such inter-
change; and
WHEREAS, on February 9, 1976, the City Council requested
that the California Highway Commission authorize and cause to be
constructed during the 1976-1977 fiscal year, an interchange as a new
connection at Stockdale Highway and Route 99 Freeway, providing
access to Brundage Lane and Stockdale Highway by construction of
on-ramps and off-ramps from such streets to Route 99 Freeway; and
WHEREAS, the interchange project requested in Resolution No.
8-76 has not been undertaken and problems which that program is
intended to redress have become increasingly acute with the passage
of time;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF BAKERSFIELD AS FOLLOWS:
1. That the number one priority item for inclusion in the
State Transportation Improvement Program, as determined by the City
Council of the City of Bakersfield for the fiscal year 1981-82, is
an interchange as a new connection at Stockdale Highway and Route 99
Freeway, providing access to Brundage Lane and Stockdale Highway by
construction of on-ramps and off-ramps from such streets to Route
99 Freeway.
2. That certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted
forthwith to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Kern and to
Kern Council of Governments (Kern-COG).
3. That the Board of Supervisors of the County of Kern is
hereby requested to adopt a similar resolution establishing as
number one priority for fiscal year 1981-82 the aforesaid project.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 9th day of April, 1980, by the following
vote:
dkYES: COUNCILMEN ~, CHRISTENSEN, MEANS, MILLER, PAYNE, RATTY, STRONG
NoEs: COUNC~Lt~EN ~'~ ~
ABSTAINING: COUNCILMEN:
CITYC~RK~ fficio Clerk of
, Council offersfield the
APPROVED;'~~~ 9th d ~:~,~%~ April, 1980
APPROVED as t~ form:
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CITY ATTORNEY of f Bakersfield