HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Resolution 3100RESOLUTION NO. 3100
RESOLUTION URGING COMPLETION OF ECONOMIC AND ENGINEERING
STUDIES LEADING TO CONSTRUCTION OF A SECOND CROSSING FROM
SAN FRANCISCO TO MARIN COUNTY.
WHEREAS, the anticipated, annual practical capacity of twenty-five million
motor vehicles per year is expected to be reached by mid -1965 on the Golden Gate
Bridge, and
WHEREAS, the annual increase of motor vehicles approximates 7% per year
over the Golden Gate Bridge, and
WHEREAS, the economic, social and recreational growth and development of
all Redwood Empire Counties is dependent upon adequate transportation across the
Golden Gate between Marin and San Francisco Counties, and
WHEREAS, to date feasibility studies have not been completed to ascertain
pertinent economic and engineering facts, and
WHEREAS, anticipated time for construction of another crossing from
San Francisco to Marin County will be seven to eight years,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of San Rafael strongly urges
the California State Department of Public Works and the Board of Directors of the
Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District to accelerate in every way possible the
completion of economic and engineering studies, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that should financing be unavailable from State
or Federal sources, the City Council requests, if legal, that reserves of the
Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District be loaned or granted to the appropriate agency
for the purposes of speedily carrying out needed studies leading to construction
of a second crossing from San Francisco to Marin County.
I, W. L. MORGAN, Clerk of the City of San Rafael, hereby certify that the
foregoing resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a regular
meeting of the Council of said City held on Monday, the 3rd day of August, 1964, by
the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN Aby, Baar, Barbier, Jensen and
Mayor McInnis
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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�W. C. CORNWELL, Deputy City Clerk
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