HomeMy Public PortalAbout84-186RESOLUTION NO. 84-186
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF CARSON
ENDORSING THE PROPOSED SCAG RAIL ACCESS
POLICIES WHICH CALL FOR A DIRECT CORRELATION
BETWEEN MITIGATION AND STAGED IMPLEMENTATION
OF CONSOLIDATED FREIGHT RAIL TRAFFIC ALONG
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC SAN PEDRO BRANCH
(ALAMEDA STREET)
WHEREAS, the Southern California Association of Governments
(SCAG), in concert with the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, the Los
Angeles County Transportation Commission, CalTrans, the Los Angeles County
Road Department, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Southern Pacific
Transportation Company, the Union Pacific Railroad, the Atchinson, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railway, and the Public Utilities Commission, have been studying
the impact that the expansion of port -related freight traffic will have on the
traffic system of Southern California; and
WHEREAS, the new major distribution center of containerized
freight, the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) is proposed to be
located on the City of Carson's eastern border; and
WHEREAS, the Alameda Street connection to the ICTF
project will provide the backbone of both rail and truck access to this distribution
center; and
WHEREAS, SCAG's Ports Advisory Committee has proposed
a policy to support the regional consolidation of rail traffic on to the Southern
Pacific San Pedro Branch, in order to minimize the adverse environmental
and economic land use and transportation impacts to the region associated
with other alternate rail distribution proposals; and
WHEREAS, the Consolidated Rail proposal, along with the',
ICTF proposal, effectively makes the City of Carson's section of Alameda
Street the most highlyconcentrated, and thus highly impacted, section of
the entire regional ditribution system.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of
Carson takes the following positions:
Section 1. In order to provide for the public health, safety,
and welfare of the Lincoln -Dominguez area of the City, grade separated crossings
are necessary at both Del Amo Boulevard and Carson Street, in order to mitigate
the traffic safety impacts of ICTF and Consolidated Rail.
Section 2. The Sepulveda Boulevard access to the ICTF
site and Alameda Street need to be improved, consistent with the standards
required for a major highway; and the need for a grade separated crossing
at Sepulveda Boulevard and Alameda Street needs to be considered.
Section 3. The mitigation of land use and traffic problems
associated with the expansion of the Port of Long Beach, the Port of Los Angeles
needs to be directly tiled to the phased implementation of both ICTF and the
Consolidated Rail.
Section 4. The Rail Access Policies proposed by SCAG,
dated September 20, 1984, are hereby endorsed by the City of Carson. In addition,
the City concurs with both the establishment and the composition of the proposed
Alameda Corridor Task Force.
Section 5. Funding consideration is requested from the
appropriate Federal a� State agencies, as well as from the Ports of Los Angles
and Long Beach, and from the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacif c
Railroad, to appropriately mitigate the land use and traffic impacts that will
result from these proposed projects in the City of Carson.
Section 6. A certified copy of this Resolution shall be transmitted
to: the Ports Advisory Committee, the Southern California Association of
Governments, the Los Angeles Transportation Commission, Congressman Gllenn
Anderson, Senator Robert Beverly and Assemblyman Dave Elder.
Section 7. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest
to the adoption of this Resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 16th
day of October 1984.
Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )'
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )' ss.
CITY OF CARSON
I, Helen S. Rawagoe, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, do
hereby certify that the', whole number of members of the City Council of said City is
five; that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 84-186 was duly and
regularly adopted by the City Council of said City at an adjourned regular meeting of said
Council, duly and regularly held on the 16th day of October, 1984, and that the same
was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: DeWitt, Mills, and Calas
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Muise
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Egan
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City Clerk, City of Carso California