HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES NO 8-57RE S 0 LUT ION ~N O. ~ ~ ?~ ~_
WHEREAS,~ the Council of the City of Bakersfield, in the welfare
and interest of the citizens Of said City and ~f the metropolitan area
surrounding +it, has in recent years given much .thought ~o and has
carefully ~tudied and considered the several plans for s nor'th-south
freeway which have been submitted by the Stat~'Department~of Public
Works,, Division of Highways; and
WHEREAS, the State Department of Public Works, through its
Division of Highways, has recently prepared, at the request of the
State' Legislature, a plan and report on a' proposed high S~eed highway
on the'lwest side of the San ~oaquir~ Valley from Woodland on the
to 'Grapevine on the south, and
WHEREAS, this Council has heretofore discouraged any higN~ay
or freeway~ p'lan which would encroach upon the established residential
or populated areas of this community, 0r which would deter or hinder
the normal and anticipated growth o~ said ~community~ and
WHEREAS, the residents of the Greater Bakersfield Metropolitan
Area, as well as this Council, being cognizant of~+the heav~ traffic
load being borne by Highway 99, are ~ullylaware of the .necessity
for an additional valley highway t0'I carry the everyincreasing truck
and passenger car traffic which has been and is being stimulated
by the unprecedented population growth of the .State, as well as the
annual increases in the number of visitors, and
I~EREAS, the recently proposed high speed highway would provide
a north-South expressway for through traffic between southern Cali-
fornia and the metropolitan areas 0~ the Sm~ .~ancisco Bay region and
Other northern areas, without detz, sc.ting from the economic we!f~re
of the Valley cities, and _
WHERF~S, this Council believes that/the..propesed route. is in
the best interests of the State of California.as~·well~as the City
Of Bakersfield and the County d~ Kern, in' that it will permit expansion
of residential areas and will p~evids additional inducement for
industrial development and the access ~d outlots necessary and
incident thereto, and
WHEREAS, said proposed route will intersect State RoUte 178
approximately 12 or 15 miles to the. west of Bakersfield, End t~is
Council further believes that it wtll be-..complementary to the p~oposed
new route and in accord with good ~gh~ay planning, and, in ~act, liS
a~very definite necessity due to the p~esent traffic load and the
normal anticipated increase of traffic on IState Route 178, .that the
Etate HighwayDepartment include in its Plans', or concu~ent therewith,
the improvement of s~id State Route 178 to a ~6ur-lane highwsoy fro~
Ithe City o~ Bakersfield to its junction ~ith said proposed nort~.-south
hig~ speed'highway. :· -
· NOW,~'THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED byethe ·Coun0ii of t~ City of
Bakersfield, that this Council goes o~"reCord as faVoring~the proposed
plans of the Share Department of 'P~blic-Works', Division ·of HighWays,
for the construction of a high speed high~'~syI~along the west 'side of
the San ~oaquin Valley, ~ro~ Woodland' to G~apeVins.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Stat~ .Department of P~lic
Works, DiviSion.of Highways, is hereby'~vged to' give special considera-
tion to the, request of ~his Co~cil, that.State Route 178~be improved
tO a fou~-lane highway between the City-of BakerSfield and said
'p~0posed, high speed highway. .
-The Clerk of the City of Bakersfield is.hereby directed to mail
Director of Public Works, Mr. G. T. McCoy~'State HighV~ay Engineer, and
th~ State Highway Commission~
: I B'EREBY CERTIFY that f'~he foregoing Resolution ~,xas passed rand
adopted by the Council of:.the City of Bakersfield at a regular mesthg
thereof heldon the 18th daylof February, 1957', by the follo~xing vote:
Ci an E~j-Of_~Icio Cls.~k ~f ~he
Cour:.cll o: ths City cf Bake~-s;?ield.
APPROVED ,
MAYOR of the City of Bakersfield.