HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RESO 6299RESOLUTION NO, 6299
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of the Wherry Act,
a housing project is now being completed in that portion of the
City of San. Diego, California, known as Paradise Hills; and
WHEREAS, the City of San Diego has afforded no roads of
access to said Paradise Hills housing project, and the building of
the same because of the terrain would be very expensive; and
WHEREAS, as a result, the only means the residents of
said Paradise Hills housing project have of reaching their resid-
ences therein is by using the streets of the City of National City;
and
WHEREAS, a traffic count taken by the City of National
City shows that due to the building of said Paradise Hills housing
project the traffic on 8th Street East of Harbison has increased
Fourteen Percent (14%); the traffic on 18th Street at Rachael has
increased Thirty-eight Percent (38%), and the traffic on Harbison
between 16th and 18th Streets has increased Fifty Percent (50%);
and
WHEREAS, ,the City of National City is unable to provide
funds for maintaining and improving the said streets used by the
residents of said housing project to reach Paradise Hills;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council
of the City of National City as follows:
The City of National City hereby requests the United States
of America to take appropriate action to afford the City of National
City relief from the burden imposed upon it as a result of the build-
ing of the Wherry Housing Project in the Paradise Hills section of
the City of San Diego, California.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution
be sent to Senator Knowland, Senator Kuchel, Congressman Wilson
and a±sa-t . the County Assessor of San Diego County,
PASSF:T) AND ADOPTED on the 7' day of December,
1954.
Mayor